06w5059 Convex Sets and their Applications

Arriving Saturday, March 4 and departing Thursday, March 9, 2006

Organizers: Ted Bisztriczky (University of Calgary), Paul Goodey (University of Oklahoma), Peter Gritzmann (Technische Universität München), Martin Henk (University of Magdeburg), David Larman (UC London).

Confirmed Participants

Press Release: Convex Geometers from Fourteen Countries to Gather at BIRS

Information for Participants

Schedule (PDF file)

Final Report (PDF file)

Objectives

In the past twenty years, there has been a significant development and increase in the importance of Convex Geometry. This has resulted in a large number of excellent young researchers who are experts in the various branches (Discrete, Analytic and Applied) of the discipline, and is evidenced by the many high calibre conferences focusing on the branches. For example: the Nato Advanced Study Institute on Polytopes (Toronto, 1993), the Oberwolfach meetings on Applied and Computational Convexity (1999) and in analytic aspects of geometry (1997 and 2001), and Discrete Geometry (2000 and 2005), the BIRS meetings on Convex Geometry Analysis (2004) and Densest Sphere Packings (2005).

The objective of the proposed meeting is to bring together in Banff eminent and emerging researchers from the three main branches of Convex Geometry. There has not been such a unifying conference in the past fifteen years, and the emergence of both Applied and Computational Convexity and an excellent cadre of young researchers during this hiatus points very clearly to the need for such a meeting.