Category Archives: Computer Science and Optimization

Igor Pak is Giving the 2018 Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

Update: The lectures this week are cancelled.  They will be given at a later date. Next week Igor Pak will give the 2018 Erdős Lectures   Monday Jun 18 2018 Combinatorics — Erdos lecture: Igor Pak (UCLA) “Counting linear extensions” 11:00am to 12:30pm Location: … Continue reading →

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Cohen, Haeupler, and Schulman: Explicit Binary Tree-Codes & Cancellations

Posted on April 24, 2018 by

The high-dimensional conference in Jerusalem is running with many exciting talks (and they are videotaped), and today in Tel Aviv there is a conference on Optimization and Discrete Geometry : Theory and Practice. Today in Jerusalem, Leonard Schulman talked (video available!) … Continue reading →

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Conference on High Dimensional Combinatorics, April 22-26 2018

Posted on April 7, 2018 by

Conference on High Dimensional Combinatorics Conference home-page Dates: April 22-26, 2018 Place: Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Organizers: Alex Lubotzky, Tali Kaufman and Oren Becker Registration form: click here Registration deadline: April 13, 2018 Combinatorics in general and the theory … Continue reading →

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Monday February 19: Quantum Coding and High Dimensional Expanders

Posted on February 14, 2018 by

Tonight at 8:00 Israel time TCS+ Dor Misner on 2-to-2 games.    On Monday, February 19, we will have a special day on “Quantum Coding and High Dimensional Expanders” organized by Gilles Zemor. Sandwiches will be served for lunch, alongside … Continue reading →

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My Argument Against Quantum Computers: An Interview with Katia Moskvitch on Quanta Magazine

Posted on February 8, 2018 by

Quanta Magazine published an interview with me about quantum computers. It was a pleasure discussing this issue with Katia Moskvitch and I enjoyed also the photo session with David Vaaknin who also took a video of me explaining the importance of … Continue reading →

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Akshay Venkatesh Lectures at HUJI – Ostrowski’s Prize Celebration, January 24&25

Posted on January 23, 2018 by

Thursday January 25, 14:15-15:45 Ostrowski’s prize ceremony and Akshay Venkatesh’s prize lecture: Period maps and Diophantine problems Followed by a Basic notion lecture by Frank Calegary 16:30-17:45: The cohomology of arithmetic groups and Langlands program Wednesday January 24, 18:00-17:00: Akshay Venkatesh … Continue reading →

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Hardness of Approximating Vertex Cover, Polytope-Integrality-Gap, the Alswede-Kachatrian theorem, and More.

Posted on January 21, 2018 by

Lior Silberman asked about applications of the 2-to-2 game theorem to hardness of approximation, and James Lee answered mentioning applications to vertex cover. Let me elaborate a little on vertex cover, and other matters. (Here is the pervious post on … Continue reading →

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Subhash Khot, Dor Minzer and Muli Safra completed the proof of the 2-to-2 Games Conjecture

Posted on January 10, 2018 by

Update: A related blog post by Boaz Barak: Unique Games Conjecture – halfway there? The 2-to-2 Games Conjecture is a somewhat weaker form of Khot’s unique game conjecture. The paper is: Pseudorandom Sets in Grassmann Graph have Near-Perfect Expansion by Subhash Khot, Dor … Continue reading →

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Cody Murray and Ryan Williams’ new ACC breakthrough: Updates from Oded Goldreich’s Choices

Posted on January 8, 2018 by

Thanks to Irit Dinur for telling me about the following: Oded Goldreich’s recent choice is about the paper: Circuit Lower Bounds for Nondeterministic Quasi-Polytime: An Easy Witness Lemma for NP and NQP, by Corry Murray and Ryan Williams. Ryan Williams … Continue reading →

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Yael Tauman Kalai’s ICM2018 Paper, My Paper, and Cryptography

Posted on January 6, 2018 by

Yael Tauman Kalai: Delegating Computation via No-Signaling Strategies. Ladies and Gentelmen,  Here is, exclusively for our readers, Yael Tauman Kalai’s ICM2018 paper: Delegating Computation via No-Signaling Strategies. The opportunity to present the paper arose when a week ago I attended … Continue reading →

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