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Where were we?
I was slow blogging, and catching up won’t be so easy. Of course, this brings me back to the question of what I should blog about. Ideally, I should tell you about mathematical things I heard about. The problem is … Continue reading
Oded Goldreich Fest
Update (April 17): Outcomes of the poll for the coolest title are in. (See the end of the post) Oded Goldreich’s 60 birthday meeting, April 19-20 at the Weitzmann Institute promises to be a great event. Here is the webpage … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences
Tagged Oded Goldreich
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Polynomial Method Workshop
The workshop on the “polynomial method” will take place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday Dec 26 and Tuesday Dec 27. The event is organized by Jordan Ellenberg and Gil Kalai. Program: Monday 10-11:45 (Combinatorics seminar) Adam Shefer – … Continue reading
Avifest live streaming
Live streaming for Avifest is available here. The program is here. Following the first two lectures I can witness that the technical quality of the broadcast is very good and the scientific quality of the lectures is superb. As this is … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Avi Wigderson
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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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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
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Tagged Avi Wigderson
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Three Conferences: Joel Spencer, April 29-30, Courant; Joel Hass May 20-22, Berkeley, Jean Bourgain May 21-24, IAS, Princeton
Dear all, I would like to advertise three promising-to-be wonderful mathematical conferences in the very near future. Quick TYI. See if you can guess the title and speaker for a lecture described by “where the mathematics of Cauchy, Fourier, Sobolev, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Combinatorics, Conferences, Geometry, Updates
Tagged Jean Bourgain, Joel Hass, Joel Spencer
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News (mainly polymath related)
Update (Jan 21) j) Polymath11 (?) Tim Gowers’s proposed a polymath project on Frankl’s conjecture. If it will get off the ground we will have (with polymath10) two projects running in parallel which is very nice. (In the comments Jon Awbrey gave … Continue reading
