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Inaugural address at the Hungarian Academy of Science: The Quantum Computer – A Miracle or Mirage
(Picture: János Pach) The Quantum Computer – A Miracle or Mirage inaugural address of Gil Kalai honorary member of the MTA, Budapest, 15 June, 2022, 15:00 Abstract: On February 12, 2002, Michel Devoret’s lecture entitled “The Quantum Computers: Miracle or … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Computer Science and Optimization, Physics, Quantum
Tagged Noise-sensitivity, Noise-stability, Quantum computers
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ICM 2022 awarding ceremonies (1)
Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard and Maryna Viazovska were awarded the Fields Medal 2022 and Mark Braverman was awarded the Abacus Medal 2022. I am writing from Helsinki where I attended the meeting of the General Assembly of the … Continue reading
Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future
Noam Nisan is 60 Today, June 26 2022, is the opening day of Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Noam Nisan’s 60th Birthday. The workshop takes place on June 26-30 2022, at the CS … Continue reading
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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To cheer you up in difficult times 4: Women In Theory present — I will survive
An amazing video (Update, May18 2020). I failed to explain what WIT is and this may have caused some misunderstanding. Here is a description from the Simons Institute site. “The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and … Continue reading
Computer Science and its Impact on our Future
A couple of weeks ago I told you about Avi Wigderson’s vision on the connections between the theory of computing and other areas of mathematics on the one hand and between computer science and other areas of science, technology and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Computer Science and Optimization, Quantum, Updates
Tagged computer science
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Avi Wigderson’s: “Integrating computational modeling, algorithms, and complexity into theories of nature, marks a new scientific revolution!” (An invitation for a discussion.)
The cover of Avi Wigderson’s book “Mathematics and computation” as was first exposed to the public in Avi’s Knuth Prize videotaped lecture. (I had trouble with 3 of the words: What is EGDE L WONK 0? what is GCAAG?GTAACTC … Continue reading
An Interview with Yisrael (Robert) Aumann
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
Posted in Academics, Games, Geometry, Rationality
Tagged Menachem Yaari, Robert Aumann, Sergiu Hart
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My Very First Book “Gina Says”, Now Published by “World Scientific”
I just received an advanced copy of my very first book: “Gina Says: Adventures in the Blogsphere String War” published by Word Scientific. It is a much changed version compared to the Internet version of 8 years ago and it … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Mathematics over the Internet, Physics, Updates
Tagged Gina Says, World Scientific
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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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