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AlexFest: 60 Faces of Groups
Ladies and gentlemen, A midrasha (school) in honor of Alex Lubotzky’s 60th birthday will take place from November 6 – November 11, 2016 at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Don’t miss the event! And … Continue reading
Posted in Algebra and Number Theory, Combinatorics, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Alex Lubotzky
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Postoctoral Positions with Karim and Other Announcements!
Postoctoral positions with Karim Adiprasito My young friend and colleague Karim Adiprasito told me that he has funding for postdocs (with or without teaching) and students (with or without teaching), both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the MPI/University … Continue reading
Jirka
The Mathematics of Jiří Matoušek is a conference taking place this week at Prague in memory of Jirka Matoušek. Here are the slides of my planned talk on Maestro Jirka Matoušek. This post presents the opening slides for the conference … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Geometry, Obituary
Tagged Jirka Matoušek
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AviFest, AviStories and Amazing Cash Prizes.
Ladies and gentlemen, a workshop in Princeton in honor of Avi Wigderson’s 60th birthday is coming on October. It will take place at Princeton on October 5-8 2016 right before FOCS 2016. Don’t miss the event ! Attendance is free but … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Avi Wigderson
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Polymath 10 post 6: The Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture, and the Turan (4,3) problem: homological approaches.
In earlier posts I proposed a homological approach to the Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture. I will describe again this approach in the second part of this post. Of course, discussion of other avenues for the study of the conjecture are welcome. The purpose … Continue reading
Polymath 10 Emergency Post 5: The Erdos-Szemeredi Sunflower Conjecture is Now Proven.
While slowly writing Post 5 (now planned to be Post 6) of our polymath10 project on the Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture, the very recent proof (see this post) that cap sets have exponentially small density has changed matters greatly! It implies … Continue reading
Mind Boggling: Following the work of Croot, Lev, and Pach, Jordan Ellenberg settled the cap set problem!
A quote from a recent post from Jordan Ellenberg‘s blog Quomodocumque: Briefly: it seems to me that the idea of the Croot-Lev-Pach paper I posted about yesterday (GK: see also my last post) can indeed be used to give a new bound … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged Cap sets, Dion Gijswijt, Ernie Croot, Jordan Ellenberg, Peter Pach, Seva Lev.
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More Math from Facebook
David Conlon pointed out to two remarkable papers that appeared on the arxive: Joel Moreira solves an old problem in Ramsey’s theory. Monochromatic sums and products in . Abstract: An old question in Ramsey theory asks whether any finite coloring … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Mathematics over the Internet, Updates
Tagged Ernie Croot, Joel Moreira, Peter Pach, Vsevolod Lev
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The Erdős Szekeres polygon problem – Solved asymptotically by Andrew Suk.
Here is the abstract of a recent paper by Andrew Suk. (I heard about it from a Facebook post by Yufei Zhao. I added a link to the original Erdős Szekeres’s paper.) Let ES(n) be the smallest integer such that … Continue reading
The Quantum Computer Puzzle @ Notices of the AMS
The Quantum Computer Puzzle My paper “the quantum computer puzzle” has just appeared in the May 2016 issue of Notices of the AMS. Here are the beautiful drawings for the paper (representing the “optimistic view” and the “pessimistic view”) by my … Continue reading
