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Ringel Conjecture, Solved! Congratulations to Richard Montgomery, Alexey Pokrovskiy, and Benny Sudakov
Ringel’s conjecture solved (for sufficiently large n) A couple weeks ago and a few days after I heard an excellent lecture about it by Alexey Pokrovskiy in Oberwolfach, the paper A proof of Ringel’s Conjecture by Richard Montgomery, Alexey Pokrovskiy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexey Pokrovskiy, Benny Sudakov, Richard Montgomery
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Test your intuition 43: Distribution According to Areas in Top Departments.
In the community of mamathetitians in a certain country there are mamathetitians in two areas: Anabra (fraction p of the mamathetitians) and Algasis (fraction 1-p of mamathetitians.) There are ten universities with 50 faculty members in each mamathetics department … Continue reading
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Tagged Test your intuition
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Two talks at HUJI: on the “infamous lower tail” and TOMORROW on recent advances in combinatorics
In this post I advertise my colloquium lecture tomorrow – Thursday 23/1/2020 14:30 – on recent advances in combinatorics, and also mention Wojtek Samotij’s lecture on our combinatorics seminar on The lower tail for triangles in random graphs. Click here … Continue reading
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Amazing: Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen proved that MIP* = RE and thus disproved Connes 1976 Embedding Conjecture, and provided a negative answer to Tsirelson’s problem.
A few days ago an historic 160-page paper with a very short title MIP*=RE was uploaded to the arXive by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, and Henry Yuen. I am thankful to Dorit Aharonov and Alon Rosen … Continue reading
Posted in Algebra, Analysis, Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Physics, Quantum
Tagged Anand Natarajan, Henry Yuen, John Wright, Thomas Vidick, Zhengfeng Ji
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The Brown-Erdős-Sós 1973 Conjecture
Greetings from Oberwolfach. This week, there is a great meeting here on combinatorics. In this post I want to state the Brown-Erdős-Sós conjecture and one of its variants. The trigger was a beautiful talk I heard from Lior Gishboliner on … Continue reading
Tomorrow: Boolean functions day at the TAU theory fest
As part of the 2019/2020 TAU theory fest, tomorrow, Friday, January 3, 2020, is a Boolean function day at Tel Aviv University. The five speakers are Esty Kelman, Noam Lifschitz, Renan Gross, Ohad Klein, and Naomi Kirshner. For more (and … Continue reading
Four Great Numberphile Graph Theory Videos
A quick link to our previous post: Gil Bor, Luis Hernández-Lamoneda, Valentín Jiménez-Desantiago, and Luis Montejano-Peimbert: On the isometric conjecture of Banach. We have mentioned the Numberphile video channel before (here, and here, and here). It has amazing videos for … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Thompson, Annie Raymond, Erica Klarreich, Maria Chudnovsky, Numberphile, Yaroslav Shitov
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Abel in Jerusalem – SUNDAY, January 12, 2020, and other events
Update: Boris Solomyak’s birthday conference (January 13-14, Bar-Ilan University)is now added. I would like to report on seven eight nine ten mathematical events taking place in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv area, and Haifa in the next few weeks. (Probably I … Continue reading
TYI 41: How many steps does it take for a simple random walk on the discrete cube to reach the uniform distribution?
Aeiel Yadin’s homepage contains great lecture notes on harmonic functions on groups and on various other topics. I have a lot of things to discuss and to report; exciting developments in the analysis of Boolean functions; much to report on … Continue reading
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Tagged discrete cube, random walk, Test your intuition
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Gil’s Collegial Quantum Supremacy Skepticism FAQ
The first 15 samples of Google’s 53 qubit flagship quantum supremacy experiment! After the sensationally successful Scott’s Supreme Quantum Superiority FAQ and Boaz’s inferior classical inferiority FAQ let me add my contribution, explaining my current skeptical view. (I was actually … Continue reading
