Monthly Archives: June 2014

Test Your Intuition (23): How Many Women?

Posted on June 29, 2014 by

How many women can you find on this poster announcing the 25th Jerusalem School in Economics Theory devoted to Matching and Market Design? Please respond to the poll:

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Happy Birthday Richard Stanley!

Posted on June 27, 2014 by

This week we are celebrating in Cambridge MA , and elsewhere in the world, Richard Stanley’s birthday.  For the last forty years, Richard has been one of the very few leading mathematicians in the area of combinatorics, and he found deep, profound, and … Continue reading →

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Influence, Threshold, and Noise

Posted on June 14, 2014 by

  My dear friend Itai Benjamini told me that he won’t be able to make it to my Tuesday talk on influence, threshold, and noise, and asked if I already have  the slides. So it occurred to me that perhaps … Continue reading →

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