Announcement


In 2025, we celebrate the 65'th birthday of Balázs Csikós. As recognition of this special occasion and Professor Csikós' many contributions to the field of Geometry, we are pleased to announce that a one day workshop titled "Discrete and Differential Geometry Day" will be held on May 19, 2025 at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest. Everyone is welcome to join us in this celebration.

Date: May 19, 2025.
Venue: Turán lecture room
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
1053 Reáltanoda utca 13-15.

Organizers

Károly J. Böröczky
Márton Horváth
Márton Naszódi

Speakers

Károly Bezdek
Igors Gorbovickis
Márton Horváth
Zsolt Lángi
László Pyber
Endre Szabó

Program

May 19, 2025. --- Rényi Inst., Turán lecture room
10:00-10:40 Igors Gorbovickis (Constructor University)
The central set and its application to the Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture
Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Károly Bezdek (University of Calgary)
Notes on Molecules and Ball-Polyhedra
11:50-12:30 Zsolt Lángi (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Econ.)
Discrete isoperimetric problems for spindle convex sets
Lunch break
14:20-15:00 Endre Szabó (Rényi Inst.)
A Conjecture of Etienne Ghys
Coffee break
15:20-16:00 Márton Horváth (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Econ.)
Isoparametric functions on Damek-Ricci spaces