Category Archives: Conferences

A small update from Israel and memories from Singapore: Partha Dasgupta, Robin Mason, Frank Ramsey, and 007

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Gil Kalai

A small update about the situation here in Israel Eight weeks ago I wrote that my heart goes out to the people of Wuhan and China, and these days my heart goes out to people in Italy, Spain, the US, … Continue reading →

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Do Not Miss: Abel in Jerusalem, Sunday, January 12, 2020

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Gil Kalai

From left: Christopher Hacon, Claire Voisin, Ulrike Tillmann,  François Labourie Update: This was a great event with four great inspiring talks. Abel in Jerusalem, January 12, 2020 The Einstein Institute of mathematics is happy to host the Abel in Jerusalem Conference “Abel in … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow: Boolean functions day at the TAU theory fest

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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Abel in Jerusalem – SUNDAY, January 12, 2020, and other events

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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Two Important Quantum Announcements!

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Gil Kalai

I am very happy to announce two quantum events. First, I would like to announce a course “Computation, quantization, symplectic geometry, and information” in the first 2019/2020 semester  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). The course will by on … Continue reading →

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Are Natural Mathematical Problems Bad Problems?

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Gil Kalai

One unique aspect of the conference “Visions in Mathematics Towards 2000” (see the previous post) was that there were several discussion sessions where speakers and other participants presented some thoughts about mathematics (or some specific areas), discussed and argued.  In … Continue reading →

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An Invitation to a Conference: Visions in Mathematics towards 2000

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Let me invite you to a conference. The conference took place in 1999 but only recently the 57 videos of the lectures and the discussion sessions are publicly available. (I thank Vitali Milman for telling me about it.) One novel … Continue reading →

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PCP fest, Tel Aviv University, 18-20 December 2018

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Gil Kalai

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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ICM2018: Closing Ceremonies

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Gil Kalai

With Peter Sarnak, Stas Smirnov, and Tadashi Tokieda at  Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açúcar), Rio. At Sugar Loaf with Stas and Edward Dunne This is my second report from ICM 2018. Some acronyms are used in this post. ICM = … Continue reading →

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ICM2018 First Report

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Gil Kalai

I just came back from Rio from a great congress. Many great talks and many exciting meetings with old and new friends.  I had planned to live-blog on the last four days of the congress but on Monday evening I … Continue reading →

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