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Past and Future Events
Quick announcements of past (recorded) and future events 1) Shachar Lovett was the Erdos Speaker for 2022 and his great talks are recorded. (Lecture 1, Tensor ranks and their applications lecture 2, The monomial structure of Boolean functions, lecture 3, … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Convexity, Geometry, Quantum
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Chaim Even-Zohar, Tsviqa Lakrec, and Ran Tessler present: The Amplituhedron BCFW Triangulation
There is a recent breakthrough paper The Amplituhedron BCFW Triangulation by Chaim Even-Zohar, Tsviqa Lakrec, and Ran Tessler Abstract: The amplituhedron is a geometric object, introduced by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka (2013) in the study of scattering amplitudes in quantum … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Convexity, Physics
Tagged Amplituhedron, Chaim Even-Zohar, Ran Tessler, Tsviqa Lakrec
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The Logarithmic Minkowski Problem
The logarithmic origin of Manhattan We are spending the fall semester in NYC at NYU and yesterday* I went to lunch with two old friends Deane Yang and Gaoyong Zhang. They told me about the logarithmic Minkowski problem, presented in the … Continue reading
Posted in Convex polytopes, Convexity, Updates
Tagged Deane Yang, Erwin Lutwak, Gaoyong Zhang, Károly Böröczky
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To cheer you up in difficult times 22: some mathematical news! (Part 1)
To cheer you up, in these difficult times, here are (in two parts) some mathematical news that I heard in personal communications or on social media. (Maybe I will write later, in more details, about few of them that are … Continue reading
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Cheerful News in Difficult Times: The Abel Prize is Awarded to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson
The Abel Prize was awarded earlier today to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.” Congratulations to Laci … Continue reading
To Cheer You Up in Difficult Times 15: Yuansi Chen Achieved a Major Breakthrough on Bourgain’s Slicing Problem and the Kannan, Lovász and Simonovits Conjecture
This post gives some background to a recent amazing breakthrough paper: An Almost Constant Lower Bound of the Isoperimetric Coefficient in the KLS Conjecture by Yuansi Chen. Congratulations Yuansi! The news Yuansi Chen gave an almost constant bounds for Bourgain’s … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Convexity, Geometry
Tagged Yuansi Chen
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Open problem session of HUJI-COMBSEM: Problem #2 Chaya Keller: The Krasnoselskii number
Marilyn Breen This is our second post on the open problem session of the HUJI combinatorics seminar. The video of the session is here. Today’s problem was presented by Chaya Keller. The Krasnoselskii number One of the best-known applications … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaya Keller, Marilyn Breen, Mark Krasnoselskii, Micha A. Perles
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To cheer you up in difficult times 4: Women In Theory present — I will survive
An amazing video (Update, May18 2020). I failed to explain what WIT is and this may have caused some misunderstanding. Here is a description from the Simons Institute site. “The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and … Continue reading
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