Monthly Archives: April 2015

My Fest

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Gil Kalai

It is a pleasure to announce my own birthday conference which will take place in Jerusalem on June 15-16 2015. Here is the meeting’s homepage! The organizers asked me also to mention that some support for accommodation in Jerusalem for the … Continue reading →

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New Isoperimetric Results for Testing Monotonicity

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Gil Kalai

Muli, Dor and Subhash, Jerusalem May 21 2015.   Michel Talagrand            Gregory Margulis Property testing In this post I will tell you about a new paper by Subhash Khot, Dor Minzer and Muli Safra  entitled: On … Continue reading →

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Angry Birds Update

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Gil Kalai

Angry birds peace treaty by Eretz Nehederet link to the video (English, Hebrew) Arqade A few years ago I became interested in the question of whather new versions of the computer game “Angry Birds” gradually makes it easier to get high scores. … Continue reading →

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Two Delightful Major Simplifications

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Gil Kalai

Arguably mathematics is getting harder, although some people claim that also in the old times parts of it were hard and known only to a few experts before major simplifications had changed  matters. Let me report here about two recent remarkable simplifications … Continue reading →

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