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- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky’s conjectures
- Nostalgia corner: John Riordan’s referee report of my first paper
- At the Movies III: Picture a Scientist
- At the Movies II: Kobi Mizrahi’s short movie White Eye makes it to the Oscar’s short list.
- And the Oscar goes to: Meir Feder, Zvi Reznic, Guy Dorman, and Ron Yogev
- Thomas Vidick: What it is that we do
- To cheer you up in difficult times 20: Ben Green presents super-polynomial lower bounds for off-diagonal van der Waerden numbers W(3,k)
- To cheer you up in difficult times 19: Nati Linial and Adi Shraibman construct larger corner-free sets from better numbers-on-the-forehead protocols
- Possible future Polymath projects (2009, 2021)
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- To Cheer You Up in Difficult Times 15: Yuansi Chen Achieved a Major Breakthrough on Bourgain's Slicing Problem and the Kannan, Lovász and Simonovits Conjecture
- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky's conjectures
- TYI 30: Expected number of Dice throws
- 8866128975287528³+(-8778405442862239)³+(-2736111468807040)³
- The Argument Against Quantum Computers - A Very Short Introduction
- Possible future Polymath projects (2009, 2021)
- Answer: Lord Kelvin, The Age of the Earth, and the Age of the Sun
- Amazing: Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen proved that MIP* = RE and thus disproved Connes 1976 Embedding Conjecture, and provided a negative answer to Tsirelson's problem.
- Photonic Huge Quantum Advantage ???
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Many triangulated three-spheres!
The news Eran Nevo and Stedman Wilson have constructed triangulations with n vertices of the 3-dimensional sphere! This settled an old problem which stood open for several decades. Here is a link to their paper How many n-vertex triangulations does the 3 … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Geometry, Open problems
Tagged Eran Nevo, Stedman Wilson
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NatiFest is Coming
The conference Poster as designed by Rotem Linial A conference celebrating Nati Linial’s 60th birthday will take place in Jerusalem December 16-18. Here is the conference’s web-page. To celebrate the event, I will reblog my very early 2008 post “Nati’s … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Nati Linial
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