Speaker: 

Tomasz Tkocz

Institution: 

Carnegie Mellon University

Time: 

Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

Let K be a convex body with volume one and barycentre at the origin.
How small is the volume of the intersection of K and -K? I shall
discuss such lower bounds and present applications to the Hadwidger
covering/illumination conjecture. Based on joint work with H. Huang,
B. Slomka and B. Vritsiou.