Einstein Workshop on Lattice Polytopes
Freie Universität Berlin
December 12-15, 2016
arrival: Sunday, December 11
departure: Thursday, Decemeber 15, or Friday 16.
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This will be a four day workshop with lectures, presentations and informal discussions on lattice polytopes and related topics (toric geometry, Ehrhart theory, integer optimization, etc). It is funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin, as part of Francisco Santos' Einstein Visiting Fellowship at FU Berlin for 2016-2019. |
Organizers
| Mónica Blanco
(U of Cantabria) |
Christian Haase
(FU Berlin) |
Benjamin Nill
(Otto-von-Guericke |
Francisco Santos
(U of Cantabria) |
Brochure
Click here for a printable pdf file with all the workshop info, including abstracts of talks, lunch+dinner info, etc.
Program
| Monday 12th | Tuesday 13th | Wednesday 14th | Thursday 15th | |
| 08:30-08:50 |
Pick your tag |
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| 08:50-09:00 |
Welcome words |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Winfried Bruns | Achill Schürmann | Jesús De Loera | Jeff Lagarias |
| 09:45-10:15 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 10:15-11:00 | Matthias Henze | Johannes Hofscheier | Stefan Weltge | Federico Castillo |
| 11:15-12:00 | Ivan Soprunov | Akihiro Higashitani | Gennadiy Averkov | Katharina Jochemko |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:45-15:30 | Poster session | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Alexander Kasprzyk | Thomas Kahle | Jan Hofmann | |
| 17:00-17:45 | Short presentations | Raman Sanyal | Michael Joswig | |
| 17:45-18:30 | ||||
| 18:30-20:00 | Conference Dinner at HH | |||
| 20:00-21:30 | Problem Session |
Speakers
- Averkov, Gennadiy, Minkowski-type theorems for lattice polytopes.
- Bruns, Winfried, Convex hull computation in Normaliz .
- Castillo, Federico, Ehrhart positivity.
- De Loera, Jesús, Tverberg-style theorems over lattices and other discrete sets.
- Henze, Matthias, On the covering radius of lattice polytopes and its relation to view-obstructions and densities of lattice arrangements .
- Higashitani, Akihiro, Lattice simplices of maximal dimension with a given degree.
- Hofmann, Jan, The finiteness threshold width of lattice polytopes.
- Hofscheier, Johannes, Lattice simplices of bounded degree.
- Jochemko, Katharina, Real-rooted h*-polynomials.
- Joswig, Michael, Matroids From Hypersimplex Splits.
- Kahle, Thomas, The geometry of rank one tensor completion.
- Kasprzyk, Alexander, The combinatorics of Mirror Symmetry.
- Lagarias, Jeffrey, Dilated floor functions and their commutators.
- Sanyal, Raman, Combinatorially mixed valuations on polytopes.
- Schürmann, Achill, Exploiting Symmetries of Lattice Polytopes.
- Soprunov, Ivan, Minkowski length of lattice polytopes.
- Weltge, Stefan, Polytopes in the 0/1-Cube with Bounded Chvátal-Gomory Rank.
Posters
- Balletti, Gabriele, On the maximum dual volume of a canonical Fano polytope.
- Blanco, Mónica, Enumerating lattice 3-polytopes.
- Iglesias, Óscar, Classification of lattice empty 4-simplices.
- Olarte, Jorge Alberto, Rational Harnack Curves on Toric Surfaces.
- Pegel, Christoph, Generic Marked Poset Polytopes.
- Sarmiento, Camilo, Geometry of ν-Tamari lattices in types A and B.
Participants
The list below includes arrival and departure dates for participants staying at the Harnack Haus; please check your dates and inform us if they are wrong. Participants marked with (*) please remember that you have to arrange payment for friday (and saturday, if applicable) nights directly with the Harnack Haus.
| NAME | AFFILIATION | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE |
| Altmann, Klaus | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Améndola, Carlos | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Averkov, Gennadiy | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany | 13 Tuesday | 15 Thursday |
| Balletti, Gabriele | Stockholms Universitet, Sweden | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Benedetti, Bruno | University of Miami, USA | 12 Monday | 16 Friday |
| Bihan, Frédéric | Université de Savoie, France | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Blanco, Mónica | Universidad de Cantabria, Spain | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Bogart, Tristram | Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Bruns, Winfried | Universität Osnabrück, Germany | 11 Sunday | 13 Tuesday |
| Castillo, Federico | UC Davis, California, USA | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Cavey, Daniel | University of Nottingham, UK | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Codenotti, Giulia | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| De Loera, Jesús | UC Davis, California, USA | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Haase, Christian | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Henk, Martin | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Henze, Matthias | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Higashitani, Akihiro | Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Hofmann, Jan | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Hofscheier, Johannes | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany | 11 Sunday | 15 Thursday |
| Iglesias, Óscar | Universidad de Cantabria, Spain | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Jochemko, Katharina | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Joswig, Michael | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Kahle, Thomas | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany | 12 Monday | 15 Thursday |
| Kasprzyk, Alexander | University of Nottingham, UK | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Katthän, Lukas | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Kohl, Florian | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Lagarias, Jeffrey | University of Michigan, USA | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday |
| Lenz, Matthias | Université de Fribourg, Switzerland | 12 Monday | 15 Thursday |
| Nill, Benjamin | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany | 11 Sunday | 15 Thursday |
| Olarte, Jorge | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Paffenholz, Andreas | Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Pegel, Christoph | Universität Bremen, Germany | 11 Sunday | 16 Friday |
| Ring, Maren | Universität Rostock, Germany | ||
| Santos, Francisco | Universidad de Cantabria, Spain | 11 Sunday | 17 Saturday* |
| Sanyal, Raman | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Sarmiento, Camilo | Universität Leipzig, Germany | 11 Sunday | 15 Thursday |
| Schürmann, Achill | Universität Rostock, Germany | 11 Sunday | 15 Thursday |
| Sieg, Richard | Universität Osnabrück, Germany | ||
| Soprunov, Ivan | Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA | 11 Sunday | 18 Sunday* |
| Soprunova, Jenya | Kent State University, USA | 11 Sunday | 18 Sunday* |
| Walter, Lena | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | ||
| Weltge, Stefan | ETH Zürich, Switzerland | 11 Sunday | 15 Thursday |
| Ziegler, Günter | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
Participation is by invitation only. Contact the organizers if you are interested, but please be aware that space is limited.
Venue
The workshop will take place at the Goethe Hall in the Harnack Haus of the Max Planck Institute.
Address: Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany. https://goo.gl/maps/nVd1bmsk34n
Directions: Walk 150 meters southwest from U3 station Thielplatz (next station after Dahlem Dorf).
Check in time for bedrooms is 3 p.m. Checkout time is 11 a.m. Reception is open 6 am to 8 pm. If you arrive after hours, ring the bell to the left of the main door and the security guard will give you the keys to your room.
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Einstein Foundation Berlin and the project Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics (SFB Transregio 109)