PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 24
8:30 Buses will leave hotels for Tel Aviv University campus
9:00-9:45 Registration
9:45- opening remarks, and greeting by the dean.
10:00-10:50 N. Alon - Graph Eigenvalues and the interplay between discrete and continuous isoperimetric problems
11:00-11:50 Y. Eliashberg - Leonard M. Blumenthal Lecture in Geometry: Symplectic topology of Stein manifolds
Lunch
13:50- 14:40 S.G. Bobkov - Geometric and analytic problems in the theory of heavy-tailed convex measures
14:50-15:40 P. Enflo - Extremal vectors and invariant subspaces
Short break
16:00-16:50 A. Wigderson -Applications of TCS techniques to geometric
problems
Coffee
17:15-17:30 Professor M. Gromov's Honorary Degree award ceremony
17:30-18:20 M. Gromov - TBA
19:00 Reception in the sculpture garden of Tel Aviv University's art gallery
Thursday, June 25
8:30 Buses will leave hotels for Tel Aviv University campus
9:30-10:20 D. Kazhdan - Satake isomorphism for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras
Coffee
10:40-11:30 J. Lindenstrauss - Frechet differentiability, porosity and
asymptotic structure in Banach spaces
11:40-12:30 S. Argyros - The solution of the "Scalar plus Compact" problem
Lunch
14:00-14:50 I. Benjamini - Random planar geometry
15:00-15:50 J. Bourgain - Expansion in linear groups and applications
Coffee
16:30-18:30 Mini symposium on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. Organizers: A. Litvak and V. Milman.
Participants: J. Bernues, M. Fradelizi, O. Maleva, T. Schlumprecht,
S. Szarek, A. Tsolomitis.
Friday, June 26
8:00 Buses will leave hotels for the dead sea resort
11:00-11:50 L. Pastur - Universalities in random matrix theory
Lunch
14:30-15:20 A. Giannopoulos -Volume distribution on high-dimensional convex bodies
15:30-16:20 D. Preiss - Lipschitz functions and negligible sets
Coffee
16:30-18:30 Mini symposium in Convexity. Organizers:
S. Alesker and M. Ludwig. Participants: I. Barany,
A. Bernig, K. Boroczky,
D. Hug,
A. Koldobsky,
D. Ryabogin,A. Zvavitch,
A. Stancu,
W. Weil,
E. Werner,
Dinner
Saturday, June 27 --
Free Day
Sunday, June 28
9:00-9:50 P. Gruber - A short survey of the geometry of numbers and modern applications of a classical idea
10:00-10:50 M. Ledoux - Measure concentration, functional inequalities, and curvature of metric measure spaces
Coffee and check-out
11:30-12:20 N. Tomczak-Jaegermann - Random matrices with independent columns Lunch
14:30 Buses leave to return to Tel Aviv
Afternoon of discussions and seminars
Monday, June 29
8:30 Buses leave for Tel Aviv University
9:30-10:20 O. Zeitouni - Limit laws for the eigenvalues of certain matrix ensembles
Coffee
10:40-11:30 B. Bollobas - Convergent sequences of graphs
11:40-12:30 V. Bergelson - Ergodic theory along polynomials and combinatorial number theory
Lunch
14:00-14:50 V. Pestov - Ramsey-Dvoretzky-Milman phenomenon: a survey
15:00-15:50 J.M. Bismut - The hypoelliptic laplacian and its
applications
Coffee
16:20-18:40 Mini symposium on Probability in Convex Bodies.
Organizers: B. Klartag and R. Vershynin.
Participants: R. Latala, E. Milman
K. Oleszkiewicz,
G. Paouris,
M. Shcherbina, S. Sodin,
A. Volcic,
18:45 Second lunch and Concert
Tuesday, June 30
8:30 Buses leave for Tel Aviv University
9:00-9:50 G. Kalai - Noisy quantum computers above the "Threshold"
Coffee
10:10-11:00 Y. Sinai - Non-standard Ergodic theorems and limit theorems
11:10- 12:00 S. Novikov - New Discretization of Complex Analysis
Lunch
13:30-14:20 M. Rudelson - Invertibility and spectrum of random matrices
14:30-15:20 R. Schneider - Classical convexity and stochastic geometry
Coffee
15:50 Short seminars: Impromtu sessions initiated by participants
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