International Conference
POLYHEDRAL SURFACES: GEOMETRY AND COMBINATORICS

July 21 - 25, 2003

Euler Mathematical Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY 21, JULY

 

9:00

REGISTRATION

10:00

Boris Springborn and Ulrike Scheerer: Discrete minimal surfaces

11:00

COFFEE

11:20

Tim Hoffmann: Discrete S-isothermic surfaces

12:30

Carsten Lange: A combinatorial curvature tensor

14:00

LUNCH

16:00

Gayane Panina: Hyperbolic virtual polytopes and an old uniqueness hypothesis for convex surfaces

17:15

Dagmar Timmreck: Obstructions to straight realizability of simplicial complexes

18:30

RECEPTION

 

 

TUESDAY 22, JULY

 

10:00

Idjad Sabitov: Solution of polyhedra and polygons

11:00

COFFEE

11:20

Igor Krichever:   TBA 

12:30

Daniel Matthes: Discrete and Smooth orthogonal systems: C-infinity convergence

14:00

LUNCH

15:30

Max Wardetzky: Discrete Weingarten operator

16:00

Maxim Krikun: Local properties of infinite random sphere triangula

16:30

COFFEE

17:00

Shorina Svetlana: Fibrations associated with the KDF hierarchy

17:30

Ilia Baskakov: Massey products and cohomology of moment-angle complexes

 

 

WEDNESDAY 23, JULY 

 

Excursion to Amber Chamber

 

Steklov Instiute, Fontanka 27, room 311

16:30

Sergey Fomin: Generalized associahedra

17:30

Grigori Litvinov & Grigori Spiz: Dequantization of mathematics and generalizations of Newton polyhedra

18:30

Vladimir Malyshev: Integrable differentials with quadratic singularities

 

 

THURSDAY 24, JULY 

Euler Mathematical Institute

10:00

Alexandr Volkov Noncommutative Hypergeometry

11:00

COFFEE

11:20

Sergey Novikov: Discrete connections and discrete complex analisys

12:30

Christian Mercat: Linear and nonlinear discrete holomorphy

14:00

LUNCH

15:30

Yuri Suris: Quadrirational maps: pencils of conics and Yang-Baxter consistency

16:30

COFFEE

17:00

Eva-Maria Feichtner:  Abelianizing the real permutation action

19:00

BOAT EXCURSION

 

 

FRIDAY 25, JULY 

Euler Mathematical Institute

10:00

Lev Birbrair Local Lipschitz properties of semialgebraic surfaces

11:00

COFFEE

11:20

Alexander Schwartz: Dual surfaces in cubical 4-polytopes

12:30

Andreas Paffenholz: 2-simple 2-simplicial 4-polytopes

14:00

LUNCH

Steklov Instiute, Fontanka 27, room 311

16:00

Gunter Ziegler: f-vectors of 3-spheres and 4-polytopes

17:00

Grigory Mikhalkin: configuration of pants in R2 , tropical curves and trees in lattice polygons