Workshop Program

The workshop will take place in the amphitheater "Maria Manassaki" located on the ground floor of the Students' Center at the campus of the University of Crete in Voutes. Please follow the directions provided in the "Travel" tab on how to reach the Students' Center.
Please read carefully the instructions provided for the travel reimbursement in order to avoid any delays in the processing of the paperwork.

The program of the workshop was . The book of abstracts can be found here.

Monday, September 10, 2012
Morning Session
09:00 – 09:30
Registration

09:30 – 10:20
Canonical diametric completions in normed spaces
Rolf Schneider

10:20 – 10:50
Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:40
Weak and strong moments estimates for convex measures
Alain Pajor

11:50 – 12:40
A generalization of Caffarelli's Contraction Theorem via (reverse) Heat-Flow
Emanuel Milman

12:40 – 14:10
Lunch Break and Coffee

Afternoon Session
14:10 – 15:00
A proof of the Bourgain-Milman inequality via the isotropic position
Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

15:10 – 16:00
Stability and separation in volume comparison problems
Alexander Koldobsky

16:10 – 17:00
Iterations of Steiner symmetrizations
Aljosa Volcic

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Morning Session
09:30 – 10:20
Saturated under constraints norms and the Hereditary Invariant Subspace Property
Spiros Argyros

10:20 – 10:50
Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:40
The reasons behind some classical constructions in analysis
Vitali Milman

11:50 – 12:40
Normal bundle cones of convex bodies
Peter Gruber

12:40 – 14:10
Lunch Break and Coffee

Afternoon Session
14:10 – 15:00
Pòlya operators and convexity
Achim Clausing

15:10 – 15:50
M and M*-estimates for centrally symmetric convex bodies
Apostolos Giannopoulos

15:50 – 16:30
In which domains can one do Fourier Analysis?
Mihalis Kolountzakis

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00
Retirement Celebration Honoring Professor Souzana Papadopoulou

20:30
Workshop Dinner
Please register for the dinner on Monday
Cost for non-speakers is 25Eur

Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Morning Session
09:30 – 10:20
An application of shadow systems to Mahler's Conjecture
Mathieu Meyer

10:30 – 11:20
Random polytopes in convex bodies
Antonis Tsolomitis

11:20 – 11:50
Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:40
Exact bounds on the number of faces of the Minkowski sum of convex polytopes
Menelaos Karavelas

12:50 – 13:30
Classical positions of centrally symmetric convex bodies
Lefteris Markessinis


Free Afternoon!

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Morning Session
09:30 – 10:20
Successive minima inequalities
Martin Henk

10:30 – 11:20
Vertex index of symmetric convex bodies
Alexander Litvak

11:20 – 11:50
Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:40
Polarisation problems
Gergely Ambrus

12:50 – 13:40
Spectral multipliers on locally symmetric spaces
Michel Marias