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Monthly Archives: September 2021
To Cheer You Up in Difficult Times 31: Federico Ardila’s Four Axioms for Cultivating Diversity
Todos Cuentan (Everybody counts) In a beautiful NAMS 2016 article Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in Combinatorics, Federico Ardila put forward four thoughtful axioms which became a useful foundation for Ardila’s own educational and outreach efforts, and were offered as a pressing … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Combinatorics, What is Mathematics, Women in science
Tagged diversity, Federico Ardila
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Dream a Little Dream: Quantum Computer Poetry for the Skeptics (Part I, mainly 2019)
Stars shining bright above you, Night breezes seem to whisper “I love you” Birds singing in the sycamore tree. Dream a little dream. (YouTube) Greetings from NYC everybody! Peter Shor pioneered (Nov 26, 2019) quantum poetry for the skeptics over … Continue reading
To Cheer you up in difficult times 30: Irit Dinur, Shai Evra, Ron Livne, Alex Lubotzky, and Shahar Mozes Constructed Locally Testable Codes with Constant Rate, Distance, and Locality
The Simons Institute announces an October 6, 2021 lecture by Irit Dinur with the result in the title. This is a wonderful breakthrough. I am glad to mention that I have altogether 170 combined years of friendships with the authors. … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization
Tagged Alex Lubotzky, Irit Dinur, Ron Livne, Shahar Mozes, Shai Evra
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