GAFA Seminar, Friday, Nov 16, 2001
 
Tel Aviv University, Schreiber building, 006

 10:05 - 11:20, Prof. M.Berger (IHES)

  " Metric geometry from Blumenthal to Gromov"

 11:20 - 11:30 Coffee break

 11:30 - 12:20 , B.Klartag (Tel Aviv)

  "5n Minkowski symmetrizations enough to approximate a euclidean ball
 starting any convex body"
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Friday, December 7, 2001
Schreiber Building 006, Tel Aviv University

  9:45 - 10:05 , Coffee

  10:05 - 11:00,  Anatolij Plichko (Ukraine)

       Superstrictly singular operators.

  11:00-11:15, Coffee

  11:15 - 12:10, Assaf Naor (Jerusalem)
 
            Girth and Euclidean distortion