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Introductory Workshop on Quantitative Geometry
Aug 22, 2011 to Aug 26, 2011

Organizer(s)

Keith Ball (University College London), Eva Kopecka* (Mathematical Institute, Prague), Assaf Naor (Courant Institute), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)
Quantitative Geometry deals with geometric questions in which quantitative or asymptotic considerations occur. The workshop will provide a mathematical introduction, a foretaste, of the many themes this exciting topic comprises: geometric group theory, theory of Lipschitz functions, large scale and coarse geometry, embeddings of metric spaces, quantitative aspects of Banach space theory, geometric measure theory and of isoperimetry, and more.
 

Accommodation:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.


New, completely renovated Hotel Shattuck Plaza has rooms available for you!
MSRI’s preferred rate is $135. Guests can either call the hotel’s main line, 510-845-7300, and ask for the MSRI rate or go to http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com, click on "Corporate Rates" in the reservation screen and type the code “msri11”.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention MSRI and the workshop name when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to Hotel Durant website, choose your dates of stay and enter the "123MSRI" promo code in the box. The cut-off date for reservations is Midnight on the day of Friday, July 22, 2011. The rate is $110 per night plus tax.

Schedule
Monday, August 22, 2011
9:25AM - 9:40AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Welcome
9:40AM - 10:40AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Shmuel Weinberger The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algebraic Topology ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:40AM - 11:10AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:10AM - 12:10PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Danial Kane Noise Sensitivity of Polynomial Threshold Functions ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:10PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Bruce Kleiner Differentiability and Bilipschitz Embedding in Banach Spaces [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Alessio Figalli Optimal Transport and Applications to Functional Inequalities ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Tatiana Toro Tangent Measures and Applications ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Van Vu Progress and Problems in the Theory of Random Matrices ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Yves Benoist Invariant Subsets on Homogeneous Spaces ( Abstract ) [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Larry Guth Contraction of Areas and Homotopy Types of Mappings ( Abstract ) [Video available]
4:30PM - 6:30PM MSRI, Atrium Reception
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Emmanuel Breuillard Approximate Groups and Hilbert 5th Problem ( Abstract ) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
Thursday, August 25, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Pierre Pansu Lp-Cohomology and Pinching [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium William Johnson Commutators of Operators on Banach Spaces [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Oded Regev Games with Entanglement ( Abstract ) [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Ursula Hamenstaedt Contracting Geodesics ( Abstract ) [Video available]
Friday, August 26, 2011
9:30AM - 10:30AM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Andrzej Zuk L^2 Betti Numbers of Closed Manifolds [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:00AM MSRI, Atrium Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Stefan Wenger Isoperimetric Filling Problems and Large Scale Geometry ( Abstract ) [Video available]
12:00PM - 2:00PM MSRI, Atrium Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM MSRI, Simons Auditorium Tobias Colding Singularities and Dynamics of Mean Curvature Flow [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM MSRI, Atrium Tea
Parent Program(s):
Quantitative Geometry


Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to
or by regular mail to:
Introductory Workshop on Quantitative Geometry
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA
94720-5070.
USA

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