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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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ICM2018: Closing Ceremonies
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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Tagged Ali Nasin, ICM2018, ICM2022, Sevan Nişanyan
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ICM2018 First Report
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
Building Bridges II, and Rio ICM 2018
In this post I will talk about Building Bridges II – last week conference in Budapest, about my talk and Lex Schrijver’s talk at the conference, about two old videotaped lectures in Microsoft Research (and a prize carrying competition), and … Continue reading
Conference in Singapore, Vietnam, Appeasement, Restorative Justice, Laws of History, and Neutrinos
Eliezer Rabinovici Some weeks ago I returned from a beautiful trip to Singapore and Vietnam. For both me and my wife this was the first trip to these very interesting countries. In Singapore I took part in a very unusual … Continue reading
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Tagged Ada Yonath, appeasment, Atul Parikh, David Gross, Dora Love, Eliezer Rabinovici, Israel-Iran relationship, Janet Love, Michal Feldman, Partha Dasgupta, Patrick Geary, Penelope Andrews, Singapore, South Africa, Sue Gilligan, Vietnam, Winston Churchill
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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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After-Dinner Speech for Alex Lubotzky
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
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
