The Edmund Landau Minerva Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis and Related Areas

Symposium on geometry of Banach spaces

in memory of Prof. Lior Tzafriri

May 27-28, 2008

All the lectures will be held in Auditorium 2 of the Institute of Mathematics of the Hebrew University, Giv'at Ram Campus, Jerusalem.

Tuesday, May 27
10:00-10:15	Welcome
10:15-10:45	Joram Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University) A Survey of Lior's Work
10:45-11:15	coffee break
11:15-12:05	William Johnson (Texas A&M University) A characterization of subspaces and quotients of reflexive Banach spaces with unconditional bases
12:15-13:05	Aleksander Pelczynski (Polish Academy of Sciences) The Dunford Pettis property and property k
13:05-14:30	lunch at Beit Belgia
14:30-15:20	Mark Rudelson (University of Missouri-Columbia) Sampling from large matrices
15:30-16:20	Bela Bollobas (Cambridge University) Branching processes and random graphs
16:20-16:50	coffee break
16:50-17:20	Hermann Koenig (University of Kiel) Sections and slabs of the n-cube
17:30-18:00	Carsten Schütt (University of Kiel) Uniform estimates for order statistics and Orlicz functions
Wednesday, May 28
09:00-09:30	Stanislaw Szarek (University of Paris VI) Concentration for non-commutative polynomials in random matrices
09:40-10:10	Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University) On L_p affine surface area
10:20-10:50	Gilles Godefroy (University of Paris) Renormings and Martin's axiom
10:50-11:10	coffee break
11:10-12:00	Joram Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University) A new variational principle, applications to Frechet differentiability
12:10-13:00	Assaf Naor (Courant Institute) Isomorphic uniform convexity in metric spaces
13:00-14:30	lunch at Beit Belgia
14:30-15:10	Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta) Random ε- nets in convex bodies and random embeddings into l_∞
15:20-16:00	Vitaly Milman (Tel Aviv University) The abstract concept of duality and some related facts (joint with Shiri Artstein-Avidan)
16:00-16:20	coffee break
16:20-16:50	Niels J. Nielsen (University of Odense) Some matricial operator spaces
17:00-17:30	Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute) l_p-strictly singular operators on L_p

Lior Tzafriri (1936-2008) (word file in Hebrew) / obituary by Prof. M. Zippin.

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