Category Archives: Conferences

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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After-Dinner Speech for Alex Lubotzky

Posted on November 7, 2017 by

An after-dinner speech given on November  9, 2016*, on Alex Lubotzky’s 60th birthday conference: 60 faces to Groups.   As we all realized waking up this morning, today is a historic day*. It is the dinner day for Alex 60th‘s … Continue reading →

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Where were we?

Posted on August 24, 2017 by

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 →

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Problems for Imre Bárány’s Birthday!

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

  On June 18-23 2017 we will celebrate in Budapest the 70th birthday of Imre Bárány. Here is the webpage of the conference. For the occasion I wrote a short paper with problems in discrete geometry, mainly around Helly’s and … Continue reading →

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Oded Goldreich Fest

Posted on April 11, 2017 by

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 →

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Polynomial Method Workshop

Posted on December 21, 2016 by

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. It is supported by the ERC. Program: … Continue reading →

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Avifest live streaming

Posted on October 5, 2016 by

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 →

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AlexFest: 60 Faces of Groups

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

  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 →

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Jirka

Posted on July 25, 2016 by

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 →

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