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## Geometric functional analysis and applications November 13, 2017 - November 17, 2017

Nov 13, 2017
Monday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM On Gaussian-width gradient complexity and mean-field behavior of interacting particle systems and random graphs. Ronen Eldan (Weizmann Institute of Science) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM On optimal matching of Gaussian samples Michel Ledoux (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse) 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Lunch 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Renyi divergence and the central limit theorem Sergey Bobkov (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Asymptotics in discrete Beta-ensembles Alice Guionnet (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM Tea 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM Rigidity of the 3D hierarchical Coulomb gas Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University)
Nov 14, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Refinements of Gaussian concentration for norms Grigoris Paouris (Texas A & M University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Subgaussian and lacunary uniformly bounded orthonormal systems Gilles Pisier (Texas A & M University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Billiards and Caustics Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM On matrix-valued log-concave functions Dario Cordero-Erausquin (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)) 04:30 PM - 06:20 PM Reception
Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Bezout Inequality for Mixed volumes Artem Zvavitch (Kent State University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Hessian Valuations Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien)
Nov 16, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM A Reverse Minkowski Theorem Oded Regev (New York University, Courant Institute) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma Jelani Nelson (Harvard University) 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Lunch 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Progress on the KLS Conjecture Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology) 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Convergence of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Faster Polytope Volume Computation Yin Tat Lee (University of Washington) 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM Tea 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM The dimension-free structure of nonhomogeneous random matrices Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University)
Nov 17, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM The smallest singular value of a $d$-regular random square matrix Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM On the convex Poincaré inequality and weak transportation inequalities Radoslaw Adamczak (University of Warsaw; Polish Academy of Sciences) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Invertibility via distance for random matrices with continuous distributions Konstantin Tikhomirov (Princeton University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Uniform cover inequalities for the volume of coordinate sections and projections of convex bodies Apostolos Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (University of Athens))