Category Archives: ICM2018

ICM 2018 Rio (5) Assaf Naor, Geordie Williamson and Christian Lubich

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Gil Kalai

This is my fifth and last report from ICM 2018 at Rio. I will talk a little about the three Wednesday plenary talks by Assaf Naor, Geordie Williamson, and Christian Lubich. See here for other posts about ICM2018. (For the … Continue reading →

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ICM 2018 Rio (4): Huh; Balog & Morris; Wormald

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Gil Kalai

  This is my fourth report from ICM2018. (I plan one more.)  As I already mentioned, Combinatorics  was very nicely represented at ICM2018.  The combinatorics session itself was great, and there were quite a few other sessions and other lectures … Continue reading →

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ICM 2018 Rio (3) – Coifman, Goldstein, Kronheimer and Mrowka, and the Four Color Theorem

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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Video of my ICM2018 lecture: Noise Stability, Noise Sensitivity, and the Quantum Computer Puzzle

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Gil Kalai

The Video of my ICM2018 lecture is now on the air Here are the (slightly improved) slides. I made the mistake of trying to improve my slides in the evening before the lecture and in the morning I discovered that … 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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ICM 2018 at Rio, ICM Trivia Questions, the Sao Paulo General Assembly Meeting, and Other Excitements

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Gil Kalai

ICM-trivia questions You can test yourself in the questions below and then look at the Wikipedea article for the answers. Mondial – scale excitements are here again! Not since the Mondial’s final match between France and Croatia,  has an excitement … Continue reading →

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Building Bridges II, and Rio ICM 2018

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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