Category Archives: Conferences

Mabruk Elon, India, and More

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

I am starting this post in Jaipur. My three children are watching a movie in our Jaipur hotel room and I watch them while I begin to write this post. Hagai is in the middle of a long-planned three-month trip … Continue reading →

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IPAM Workshop – Efficiency of the Simplex Method: Quo vadis Hirsch conjecture?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

  Workshop at IPAM: January 18 – 21, 2011 Here is the link to the IPAM conference. 

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Midrasha Talks are Now Online

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

Itai Benjamini listening to Gadi Kozma There are 41 lectures from the Midrasha on Probability and Geometry: The Mathematics of Oded Schramm which are now online. Joram Lindenstrauss’s concluding lecture (click on the picture to see) Laci Lovasz More pictures … Continue reading →

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Midrasha News

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

Our Midrasha is going very very well. There are many great talks, mostly very clear and helpful. Various different directions which interlace very nicely. Some moving new mathematical breakthroughs; very few fresh from the oven. Tomorrow is the last day. Update: I will try … Continue reading →

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Midrasha Mathematicae: The Mathematics of Oded Schramm

Posted on November 19, 2009 by

Update: The midrasha is taking place now. After 3 and a half school-days we have a break untill sunday. Clicking on the poster above will lead you the webpage of the event and to  a link to an online broadcast of the … Continue reading →

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Geometry and Probability

Posted on August 30, 2009 by

   

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Vitali Fest

Posted on July 12, 2009 by

Last week I took part in a lovely and impressive conference on the state of geometry and functional analysis, celebrating Vitali Milman’s 70th birthday. The conference started in Tel Aviv, continued at the Dead Sea, and returned to Tel Aviv. I gave a … Continue reading →

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The Thompson Group

Posted on May 1, 2009 by

Update (july 2009): A detailed posting on the Thompson group appeared on “Geometry and the Imagination,” Danny Calegary’s blog. In spite of two recent preprints one claiming that the Thompson group is amenable and the other claiming the opposite, the problem appears … Continue reading →

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A Conference and a School on Oded Schramm’s Mathematics

Posted on April 21, 2009 by

There will be a conference this summer in Redmond and a school in December in Jerusalem devoted to Oded Schramm’s mathematics.   Oded Schramm Memorial Conference Probability and Geometry Redmond WA, August 30-31, 2009       To be held at Microsoft … Continue reading →

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IPAM Fall 2009

Posted on January 20, 2009 by

Combinatorics: Methods and Applications in Mathematics and Computer Science September 8 – December 11, 2009 Scientific overview: Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline as well as an essential component of many mathematical areas. It studies discrete objects and their properties. … Continue reading →

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