William Blake: Newton

Program

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 - 9:50

Alexander Barvinok
Gaussian formulas for the number of integer points and volumes of polytopes
Jiří Matoušek
Stair-convexity and lower bounds for weak epsilon-nets

Csaba D. Tóth
Plane partitions for disjoint line segments
  COFFEE,
REGISTRATION
COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE COFFEE BREAK
10:20 - 11:10 Gábor Tardos
A constructive proof of the Lovász Local Lemma
Günter Rote
Realization of three-dimensional polytopes
Sariel Har-Peled
On set cover in geometric settings
Shakhar Smorodinsky
New trends in geometric hypergraph coloring
Andreas Holmsen
On Katchalski's fractional transversal problem
11:20 - 12:10 József Solymosi
Geometric methods in additive combinatorics
Günter Ziegler
Spaces of f-vectors of polytopes
Daniel Štefankovič
Algorithmic problems for curves and surfaces
Pankaj Agarwal
Geometric Summaries: Core Sets and Beyond
Luis Montejano
The Topology of the Space of Transversals
  LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 15:20 Micha Sharir
A groundshaking clash between algebraic and combinatorial geometry
Francisco Santos
50 years of the Hirsch conjecture
BOAT TOUR
14.00-21.00
László Székely
Crossing numbers: connections and some open problems
 
  COFFEE COFFEE BREAK BOAT TOUR COFFEE BREAK  
15:50 - 16:40
Emo Welzl
On the Number of Crossing Free Configurations of Planar Point Sets
BOAT TOUR Takeshi Tokuyama
Geometric optimization in grid topology and related combinatorics
 
  WINE & CHEESE
17.00-19.30
  CONFERENCE DINNER
on the BOAT