Title: Isoperimetry and slices of convex sets

Abstract: The slicing problem by Bourgain is an innocent-looking question in convex geometry. It asks whether any convex body of volume one in an n-dimensional Euclidean space admits a hyperplane section whose (n-1)-dimensional volume is at least some universal constant. There are several equivalent formulations and implications of this conjecture, which occupies a rather central role in the field. The slicing conjecture would follow from the isoperimetric conjecture of Kannan, Lovasz and Simonovits, which suggests that the most efficient way to partition a convex body into two parts of equal volume so as to minimize their interface, is a hyperplane bisection, up to a universal constant. In this lecture we will discuss progress from the last three years, showing that these two conjectures hold true up to factors that increase logarithmically with the dimension.

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