Monthly Archives: June 2018

Test Your Intuition 35: What is the Limiting Distance?

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Gil Kalai

(Just heard it today from Sergiu Hart.) At time t=0, point A is at the origin (0,0) and point B is distance 1 appart at (0,1). A moves to the right (on the x-axis) with velocity 1  and B moves … Continue reading →

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Beyond the g-conjecture – algebraic combinatorics of cellular spaces I

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Gil Kalai

The g-conjecture for spheres is surely the one single conjecture I worked on more than on any other, and also here on the blog we had a sequence of posts about it by Eran Nevo (I,II,III,IV). Here is a great … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Yisrael (Robert) Aumann

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Gil Kalai

I was privileged to join Menachem Yaari and Sergiu Hart in interviewing Yisrael Aumann.  The interview is in Hebrew. It is an initiative of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities. For our non Hebrew speakers here is in … Continue reading →

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Igor Pak is Giving the 2018 Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Gil Kalai

Update: The lectures this week are cancelled.  They will be given at a later date. Next week Igor Pak will give the 2018 Erdős Lectures   Monday Jun 18 2018 Combinatorics — Erdos lecture: Igor Pak (UCLA) “Counting linear extensions” 11:00am to 12:30pm Location: … Continue reading →

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Vera T. Sòs, Doctor Philisophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Gil Kalai

Videotaped by Ehud Friedgut.

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Sailing into High Dimensions

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Gil Kalai

On June 20 at 13:30 I talk here at HUJI about Sailing into high dimensions. (Thanks to Smadar Bergman for the poster.)

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Conference in Singapore, Vietnam, Appeasement, Restorative Justice, Laws of History, and Neutrinos

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Gil Kalai

Eliezer Rabinovici Some weeks ago I returned from a beautiful trip to Singapore and Vietnam. For both me and my wife this was the first trip to these very interesting countries. In Singapore I took part in a very unusual … Continue reading →

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A Mysterious Duality Relation for 4-dimensional Polytopes.

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Gil Kalai

Two dimensions Before we talk about 4 dimensions let us recall some basic facts about 2 dimensions: A planar polygon has the same number of vertices and edges. This fact, which just asserts that the Euler characteristic of is zero, … Continue reading →

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