i-Math Winter School DocCourse Combinatorics and Geometry 2009 Seminar

Goals

The Seminar aims at giving a broad and up-to-date panorama of contemporary research in
Discrete and Computational Geometry.

Place

Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Apartat 50
Bellaterra, Spain
Auditori
Sessions begin at 15 pm (except for particular cases)

Programme

January 21, 2009
Gyula Károlyi, Eötvös University, Budapest
Combinatorial Convexity


January 23, 2009
Michel Pocchiola, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Arrangements of double pseudolines

January 28, 2009
Frank Vallentin, CWI, Amsterdam
Optimization in geometry: kissing and coloring

January 30, 2009
Paco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
On the Hirsch conjecture

February 4, 2009
Imre Bárány, Rényi Institute, Budapest
Paths with no small angles

February 11, 2009
Peter Gruber, Technical University, Vienna
Geometry of numbers and modern developments

February 13, 2009
Please, note this session will be held at Sala Polivalent
M. Ángeles Hernández, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
The Steiner polynomial

February 18, 2009
Martin Henk, Otto-Von-Guerike Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Ehrhart polynomials and Frobenius numbers

February 20, 2009
Oswin Aichholzer, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Points, from geometry to combinatorics: order types

February 25, 2009
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Helly-type theorems

March 11, 2009
Stefan Felsner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Orientations of planar graphs

March 19, 2009
Please note, this session will be held at Sala de Graus I
Michael Joswig, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Tropical convexity

March 23 and 24, 2009
From 09:00h
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Student presentations

March 25, 2009
From 09:00h
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Closure

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