Monthly Archives: April 2017

Updates (belated) Between New Haven, Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Gil Kalai

This is a (very much) belated update post from the beginning of March (2016). New Haven I spent six weeks in February (2016) in New Haven. It was very nice to get back to Yale after more than two years. Here … Continue reading →

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Oded Goldreich Fest

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Gil Kalai

Update (April 17): Outcomes of the poll for the coolest title are in. (See the end of the post) Oded Goldreich’s 60 birthday meeting, April 19-20 at the Weitzmann Institute promises to be a great event. Here is the webpage … Continue reading →

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The Race to Quantum Technologies and Quantum Computers (Useful Links)

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Gil Kalai

One of my main research directions in the last decade is  quantum information theory and quantum computers. (See this post and this one.) It is therefore a pleasure to report and give many links on the massive efforts carried out these … Continue reading →

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Around the Garsia-Stanley’s Partitioning Conjecture

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Gil Kalai

  Art Duval, Bennet Goeckner, Carly Klivans, and Jeremy Martin found a counter example to the Garsia-Stanley partitioning conjecture for Cohen-Macaulay complexes. (We mentioned the conjecture here.)  Congratulations Art, Bennet, Carly and Jeremy!  Art, Carly, and Jeremy also wrote an article on the … Continue reading →

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