The aim of the conference is to bring together leading experts in convex geometry, as well as researchers in geometric analysis who have made important contributions to the analytic aspects of convex geometry. 

It is the second edition of "Convex Geometry in Florence" and  will take place from the morning of Thursday, October 15th 2026, until lunchtime on Saturday, October 17th 2026, at Palazzo Nonfinito, via del Proconsolo 12, Firenze, Italy.

The meeting will be dedicated to the memory of Paolo Gronchi, and it will be the occasion to award the first edition of the Gronchi Prize.

Scientific Committee

Gabriele Bianchi (Firenze), Stefano Campi (Siena), Richard J. Gardner (Bellingham), Elizabeth Werner (Cleveland).

Organizing Committee

Andrea Colesanti, Marco Longinetti, Paolo Salani (Firenze) 

Speakers

Lectures: Dario Cordero-Erausquin (Parigi), Richard J. Gardner (Bellingham), Monika Ludwig (Vienna), Emanuel Milman (Haifa, to be confirmed), Artem Zvavitch (Kent)

Talks: Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv), Frank Barthe (Toulose, to be confirmed), Florian Besau (Vienna), Gabriele Bianchi (Firenze), Almut Burchard (Toronto),  Maria Hernandez-Cifre (Murcia), Daniel Hug (Karlsruhe), Lei Qin (Montreal), Franz Schuster (Vienna), Kateryna Tatarko (Waterloo), Jacopo Ulivelli (Vienna), Markus Kiderlen (Aarhus), Peter Van Hintum (Zurigo), Yong Huang (Changsha), Christos Saroglou (Ioannina), Deane Yang (New York), Liran Rotem (Tel Aviv).