ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETING

Convexity in Banach spaces -- An homage to Piero Papini

Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain), 20-24 February 2012

Convexity is a central topic with many applications in functional analysis, geometry, mathematical economy, control theory, etc.

This edition of the Castro Urdiales Banach Space Meeting will be focused on the study of convexity; with special emphasis in its applications to Banach space theory.

The Meeting is dedicated to celebrate Professor Piero Papini, whose work has always been close to the study of convexity in normed spaces, on the occasion of his retirement.

The following mathematicians have accepted so far to deliver a plenary conference:

Carlos Benitez (Univ. Extremadura) - Polarization constants in inner product spaces.

Felix Cabello Sanchez (Univ. Extremadura) - Mathematical ping-pong.

Vladimir Fonf (Ben Gurion Univ.) - Polyhedral spaces.

Peter Gruber (Univ. Wien) - Great personalities of convex geometry from antiquity up to the present. - Normal bundles of convex bodies.

Jose P. Moreno (Univ. Madrid) - Diametrically complete sets.

Justo Puerto (Univ. Sevilla) - Location problems, solutions, algorithms and the like.

David Yost (Univ. Ballarat) - Constants and parameters in Banach spaces.

Additionally, those wishing to highlight some aspect of the career or research of Prof. Papini, or to present new results in convexity, will have the opportunity to deliver a short talk during the meeting.

Please fill the corresponding request in the registration form.

The meeting will be held in Castro Urdiales, a town by the sea in the north of Spain, about 20 Km from Bilbao, at the C.I.E.M.

(Centro Internacional de Encuentros Matematicos)

For registration and more information, please go to the web-site of the conference

http://www.ciem.unican.es/encuentros/banach/2012/

Organizing Committee: Marco Baronti (Genova), Jesus M. F. Castillo (Badajoz) Manuel Gonz'alez (Santander) and Clemente Zanco (Milano).