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Call for nominations for the Ostrowski Prize 2017
Call for nominations for the Ostrowski Prize 2017 The aim of the Ostrowski Foundation is to promote the mathematical sciences. Every second year it provides a prize for recent outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and in the foundations of … Continue reading
Twelves short videos about members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria
Very nice mathematical videos!
Posted in Academics, Movies, What is Mathematics
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Jozsef Solymosi is Giving the 2017 Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
May 4 2:30-3:30; May 7 11:00-13:00; May 10 10:30-12:00 See the event webpage for titles and abstracts (or click on the picture below).
Updates (belated) Between New Haven, Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv
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
Oded Goldreich Fest
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
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences
Tagged Oded Goldreich
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The Race to Quantum Technologies and Quantum Computers (Useful Links)
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
Around the Garsia-Stanley’s Partitioning Conjecture
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
Posted in Combinatorics, Geometry
Tagged Art Duval, Bennet Goeckner, Carly Klivans, Garsia-Stanley conjecture, Jeremy Martin, Ping Zhang
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My Answer to TYI- 28
The fifteen remarkable individuals in the previous post are all the recipients of the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize since it was established in 1997. The most striking common feature to all of them is, in my view, that they are all … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science and Optimization, Women in science
Tagged SIGACT, Women in science
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Test your intuition 28: What is the most striking common feature to all these remarkable individuals
Test your intuition: What is the most striking common feature to all these fifteen remarkable individuals László Babai; Avi Wigderson; Lance Fortnow; Lane Hemaspaandra; Sampath Kannan; Hal Gabow; Richard Karp; Tom Leighton; Rockford J. Ross; Alan Selman; Michael Langston; S. … Continue reading
