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Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Foundations’ views on quantum information Inauguration conference for the Quantum Information Science Center (QISC), Hebrew university of Jerusalem Update: The news of our conference have made it to a big-league blog.
A Few Mathematical Snapshots from India (ICM2010)
Can you find Assaf in this picture? (Picture: Guy Kindler.) In my post about ICM 2010 and India I hardly mentioned any mathematics. So here are a couple of mathematical snapshots from India. Not so much from the lectures themselves but … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Open problems
Tagged Assaf Naor, Eric Rains, François Loeser, Günter Ziegler, ICM2010
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Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagoya
Near Nagoya: Firework festival; Kyoto: with Gunter Ziegler; with Takayuki Hibi, Hibi, Marge Bayer, Curtis Green and Richard Stanly; Tokyo: Peter Frankl; crowded crossing I just returned from a trip to Japan to the FPSAC 2012 at Nagoya and a … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Convex polytopes
Tagged Alternating sign matrices, Convex polytopes, FPSAC, Japan
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Celebrations in Bar-Ilan, HU, and the Technion; A new blog: Windows on Theory; Turing’s celebration on “In Theory”; Graph Limits in Princeton
Last monday we had the annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union (IMU) that took place this year in Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. (IMU is famously also the acronym of the International Mathematical Union but in this post IMU will stand for “Isreali Mathematical Union.”) … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Updates
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Celebrations in Sweden and Norway
Celebrations for Endre, Jean and Terry Anders Bjorner presents the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics I am in Sweden for two weeks to work with colleagues and to take part in two celebrations. Jean Bourgain and Terence Tao are the 2012 laureates … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Combinatorics, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Endre Szemeredi, Jean Bourgain, Terrence Tao
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Günter Ziegler: 1000$ from Beverly Hills for a Math Problem. (IPAM remote blogging.)
Scanned letter by Zadeh. (c) Günter M. Ziegler left-to-right: David Avis, Norman Zadeh, Oliver Friedmann, and Russ Caflish (IPAM director). Photo courtesy Eddie Kim. Update: The slides for Friedmann’s talk are now available. The conference schedule page contains now the slides for … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Guest blogger
Tagged Linear programming
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IPAM Remote Blogging: Santos-Weibel 25-Vertices Prismatoid and Prismatoids with large Width
Here is a web page by Christope Weibel on the improved counterexample. The IPAM webpage contains now slides of some of the lectures. Here are Santos’s slides. The last section contains some recent results on the “width of 5-prismatoids” A prismatoid is a polytope … Continue reading
Remote Blogging: Efficiency of the Simplex Method: Quo vadis Hirsch conjecture?
Here are some links and posts related to some of the talks in IPAM’s workshop “Efficiency of the Simplex Method: Quo vadis Hirsch conjecture?“ I will be happy to add links to pdf’s of the presentations and to relevant papers. Descriptions and … Continue reading
To Life, to Science and to Innovations
ICS2011 at ITCS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China The title of this post “To life, to Science and to Innovations” was Silvio Micali’s toast at the second conference on Innovations in Computer Science and Silvio’s words have a good chance of becomeing the official toast of … Continue reading
Budapest, Seattle, New Haven
Here we continue the previous post on Summer 2010 events in Reverse chronological order. Happy birthday Srac In the first week of August we celebrated Endre Szemeredi’s birthday. This was a very impressive conference. Panni, Endre’s wife, assisted by her … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Conferences
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Conferences, Endre Szemeredi, Victor Klee
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