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Karim Adiprasito: The g-Conjecture for Vertex Decomposible Spheres
J Scott Provan (site) The following post was kindly contributed by Karim Adiprasito. (Here is the link to Karim’s paper.) Update: See Karim’s comment on the needed ideas for extend the proof to the general case. See also in the … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Geometry, Guest blogger
Tagged g-conjecture, J Scott Provan, Karim Adiprasito, Leonid Gurvits, Lou Billera
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Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, and Maryna Viazovska: Universal optimality of the E8 and Leech lattices and interpolation formulas
Henry Cohn A follow up paper on the tight bounds for sphere packings in eight and 24 dimensions. (Thanks, again, Steve, for letting me know.) For the 2016 breakthroughs see this post, this post of John Baez, this article by Erica Klarreich on … Continue reading
Exciting Beginning-of-the-Year Activities and Seminars.
Let me mention two talks with very promising news by friends of the blog, Karim Adiprasito and Noam Lifshitz. As always, with the beginning of the academic year there are a lot of exciting activities, things are rather hectic around, … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Geometry, Probability
Tagged Dor Minzer, Eoin Long, Karim Adiprasito, Noam Lifshitz, Peter Keevash
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ICM 2018 Rio (3) – Coifman, Goldstein, Kronheimer and Mrowka, and the Four Color Theorem
This post is my third report from ICM 2018. You may remember that I had planned to live-blog on the last four days of the congress but on Monday evening I realized that this was an unrealistic task and decided … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Geometry, ICM2018
Tagged Catherine Goldstein, Peter Kronheimer, Ronald (Rafi) Coifman, Tomasz Mrowka
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Ricky and Branko
Two dear friends, and great geometers, Ricky Pollack and Branko Grünbaum passed away a few weeks ago. Ricky was a close friend that both Mazi my wife and I loved, and we were both fascinated by his wisdom, charm and … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convexity, Geometry, Obituary
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Ricky Pollack
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An Improved Bound for Weak Epsilon-Nets in the Plane, by Nathan Rubin, is on the arXive
The paper An Improved Bound for Weak Epsilon-Nets in the Plane, by Nathan Rubin is now on the arxive. we mentioned the result in this post, and the problem in this post (my very first) over Tao’s blog What’s New. … Continue reading
Beyond the g-conjecture – algebraic combinatorics of cellular spaces I
The g-conjecture for spheres is surely the one single conjecture I worked on more than on any other, and also here on the blog we had a sequence of posts about it by Eran Nevo (I,II,III,IV). Here is a great … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Geometry
Tagged Anders Bjorner, Bob MacPherson, Carl Lee, Ed Swartz, Eran Nevo, g-conjecture, Günter Ziegler, Isabella Novik, June Huh, Kalle Karu, Karim Adiprasito, Kazhdan-Lustig polynomials, Lou Billera, Marge Bayer, Peter McMullen, Richard Stanley, Ron Adin, Satoshi Murai, Tom Braden
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An Interview with Yisrael (Robert) Aumann
I was privileged to join Menachem Yaari and Sergiu Hart in interviewing Yisrael Aumann. The interview is in Hebrew. It is an initiative of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities. For our non Hebrew speakers here is in … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Games, Geometry, Rationality
Tagged Menachem Yaari, Robert Aumann, Sergiu Hart
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Igor Pak is Giving the 2018 Erdős Lectures in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Update: The lectures this week are cancelled. They will be given at a later date. Next week Igor Pak will give the 2018 Erdős Lectures Monday Jun 18 2018 Combinatorics — Erdos lecture: Igor Pak (UCLA) “Counting linear extensions” 11:00am to 12:30pm Location: … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Geometry, Updates
Tagged Igor Pak
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