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Jean Bourgain and Joram Lindenstrauss. I was very sad to hear that Jean Bourgain, among the greatest mathematicians of our time, and a dear friend, passed away. I first met Jean about forty years ago and later we became friends … Continue reading
Nima Anari, Kuikui Liu, Shayan Oveis Gharan, and Cynthia Vinzant Solved the Mihail-Vazirani Conjecture for Matroids!
Milena Mihail and Umesh Vazirani I thank Nati Linial, Dan Spielman and Karim Adiprasito for sharing the news with me. The Mihail-Vazirani conjecture for matroids and Feder-Mihail’s theorem Consider a collection of vectors. A basis is a subset of … Continue reading
Igor Pak will give the 2018 Erdős Lectures
Next week Igor Pak will give the 2018 Erdős Lectures (delayed from June) Here is the poster Combinatorics — Erdos lecture: Igor Pak (UCLA) “Counting linear extensions” Monday December 10 11:00-13:00 Location: IIAS Hall 130, Feldman building, Givat Ram … Continue reading
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Tagged Erdos lecture, Igor Pak, Paul Erdos
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PCP fest, Tel Aviv University, 18-20 December 2018
Conference web site The study of Probabilistically Checkable Proofs, starting with the discovery of the PCP Theorem, is a cornerstone of modern computer science, with impact on complexity theory, algorithms, and cryptography. Born as a purely theoretical notion, mostly used … Continue reading
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Video of my ICM2018 lecture: Noise Stability, Noise Sensitivity, and the Quantum Computer Puzzle
The Video of my ICM2018 lecture is now on the air Here are the (slightly improved) slides. I made the mistake of trying to improve my slides in the evening before the lecture and in the morning I discovered that … Continue reading
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Igor Pak is Giving the 2018 Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
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
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
Conference on High Dimensional Combinatorics, April 22-26 2018
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
Monday February 19: Quantum Coding and High Dimensional Expanders
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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Tagged Dorit Aharonov, Gilles Zemor
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My Argument Against Quantum Computers: An Interview with Katia Moskvitch on Quanta Magazine
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
