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Conference "Real Algebra, Geometry and Convexity" in Leipzig
Date and Location:

February 14-18, 2011

Mathematisches Institut
Universität Leipzig
Johannisgasse 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany

All lectures will take place in the Felix-Klein lecture hall on the first floor of the Mathematical Institute.
Organizers:

Tim Netzer, Konrad SchmüdgenAndreas Thom and Konstanzer Forschungsgruppe "Real Algebraic Geometry"

If you are interested to participate or give a talk, please contact us. There is a limited possibility for reimbursement of travel expenses. Please contact us in case you need travel support.

Contact: ragc_2...@math.uni-leipzig.de

NEW: Abstracts and additional information

Confirmed Speakers:

Ulrich Brehm
(Dresden)
Salma Kuhlmann (Konstanz)
Jean Lasserre (Toulouse)
Horst Martini (Chemnitz)
Alexander Prestel (Konstanz)
Claus Scheiderer (Konstanz)
Markus Schweighofer (Konstanz)
Victor Vinnikov (Beer-Sheva)
Confirmed Participants:

Gennadiy Averkov (Magdeburg)
Sabine Burgdorf (Konstanz)
Jaka Cimpric (Ljubljana)
Michael Dritschel (Newcastle)
David Dubray (Leipzig)
Katharina Dupont (Konstanz)
Mehdi Ghasemi (Saskatoon)
Charu Goel (Konstanz)
Christoph Hanselka (Konstanz)
Matthias Henze (Magdeburg)
Aaron Kunert (Konstanz)
Maria Michalska (Savoie)
Daniel Plaumann (Konstanz)
Cordian B. Riener (Frankfurt)
Yurii Savchuk (Leipzig)
Peter Schlicht (Leipzig)
Rainer Sinn (Konstanz)
Margarita Spirova (Chemnitz)
Abel Stolz (Leipzig)
Carsten Thiel (Magdeburg)
Konrad Zimmermann (Leipzig)

Programme: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
09.30 - 10.30 Claus Scheiderer (Konstanz):
Sums of hermitian squares on pseudoconvex boundaries
Gennadiy Averkov (Magdeburg):
Lattice-free sets: finiteness and classification results
Salma Kuhlmann (Konstanz):
The moment problem for continuous positive semi-definite linear functionals
Michael Dritschel (Newcastle):
Noncommutative analogues of the Fejer-Riesz Theorem
Cordian Riener (Frankfurt):
Symmetric sums of squares in degree four
10.30 - 11.00 tea/coffee tea/coffee tea/coffee tea/coffee tea/coffee
11.00 - 12.00 Sabine Burgdorf (Konstanz):
Trace-positive polynomials and the tracial moment problem
Horst Martini (Chemnitz):
On the geometry of finite dimensional real Banach spaces
Jean Lasserre (Toulouse):
A new look at non-negativity on closed sets
Victor Vinnikov (Beer-Sheva):
Determinantal Representations: Past, Present, and Future
Jaka Cimpric (Ljublljana):
Strict Positivstellensaetze for matrix polynomials
12.00 - 14.00 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Maria Michalska (Savoie):
Stability of algebras of bounded polynomials in two variables
Ulrich Brehm (Dresden):
A Universality Theorem for Realization Spaces of Polyhedral Maps
Excursion Daniel Plaumann (Konstanz):
Computing linear determinantal representations of plane curves
15.00 - 15.40 tea/coffee tea/coffee
tea/coffee
15.40 - 16.20 Mehdi Ghasemi (Saskatoon):
Sums of squares and global optimization
Margarita Spirova (Chemnitz):
Semi-inner-product  in normed spaces
Yurii Savchuk (Leipzig):
Positivity, sums of squares and moments problem on the quantum complex plane
16.20 - 16.30 break break break
16.30 - 17.10 Alexander Prestel (Konstanz):
An axiomatization of the complex unit disc
Carsten Thiel (Magdeburg):
Lattice Points in an Adelic Convex Body
Konrad Zimmermann (Leipzig):
Stability of sums of squares in certain non-commutative algebras
17.10 - 17.20 break

17.20 - 18.00Rainer Sinn (Konstanz):
SO(2)-orbitopes
18:00 - 19:00Meeting of the members of the Konstanz Research Initiative
19:00Conference Dinner in "Thüringer Hof"
edited by Andreas Thom