Spring School and Workshop on Polytopes.
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany,
March 11-15 2019.
rub.de/polytopes2019 <https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/polytopes2019/>
The **Spring School** (Monday and Tuesday) is designed for advanced
bachelor, master and PhD students and consists in the following three
lectures:
- Geometry of Polytopes, Tim Römer (University of Osnabrück),
- Random Polytopes, Pierre Calka (University of Rouen),
- Face Enumeration, Hailun Zheng (University of Michigan).
The **Workshop** (Wednesday to Friday) consists of the following invited
speakers' and contributed talks.
Invited Speakers:
- Imre Bárány, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, TBA.
- Martin Henk, Technical University of Berlin, Problems for
polytopes from the L_p-Brunn-Minkowski theory.
- Eran Nevo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cubical polytopes.
- Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Face numbers of
manifolds with and without boundary.
- Matthias Reitzner, University of Osnabrück, Polytopes in the
Poisson hyperplane mosaic.
- Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University, Random polytopes.
Contributed Talks:
- Florian Besau, Vienna University of Technology, Random polytopes
and the spherical centroid body.
- Pazit Haim-Kislev, Tel Aviv University, On the symplectic size of
convex polytopes.
- Sophie Huiberts, CWI, A Friendly Smoothed Analysis of the Simplex
Method.
- Zakhar Kabluchko, WWU Münster, Beta polytopes and Poisson
polyhedra: f-vectors and angles.
- Sergii Myroshnychenko, University of Alberta, On recognizing
polytopes from their shadows.
- Joscha Prochno, University of Graz, On the isotropic constant of
random polytopes with vertices on l_p-spheres.
- Boaz Slomka, Weizmann Institute of Science, Approximations of
convex bodies by measure-generated sets.
- Lorenzo Venturello, University of Osnabrück, Octahedralizing
certain 3-polytopes.
- Martin Winter, TU Chemnitz, Spectral Methods for Symmetric Polytopes.
This list is also visible on the website
<https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/polytopes2019/>. We recall that the
registration process is open until February 11.
Best wishes,
Gilles Bonnet, Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Christoph Thäle.
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