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Category Archives: Teaching
Three games to cheer you up.
Here are three cool games prepared by students of my 2020 Game Theory class. Enjoy! (More games will come later. See this post for an earlier game.) Four-in -a-row with HEX board by: Daniella Drori, Margot Guetta, Eyal Magen and … Continue reading
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Harsanyi’s Sweater
Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. Here is a moving story from the paper about John Harsanyi, Harsanyi’s Sweater, by Robert J. Aumann. It is 1944 in Budapest, and John is in his early twenties. He has been … Continue reading
Game Theory – on-line Course at IDC, Herzliya
Game theory, a graduate course at IDC, Herzliya; Lecturer: Gil Kalai; TA: Einat Wigderson, ZOOM mentor: Ethan. Starting Tuesday March 31, I am giving an on-line course (in Hebrew) on Game theory at IDC, Herzliya (IDC English site; IDC Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Economics, Games, Rationality, Teaching
Tagged Game theory, Games
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Starting today: Kazhdan Sunday seminar: “Computation, quantumness, symplectic geometry, and information”
Sunday, 27 October, 2019 – 14:00 to 16:00 Repeats every week every Sunday until Sat Feb 01 2020 Location: Ross 70 See also: Seminar announcement; previous post Symplectic Geometry, Quantization, and Quantum Noise. The Google supremacy claims are discussed (with … Continue reading
Two Important Quantum Announcements!
I am very happy to announce two quantum events. First, I would like to announce a course “Computation, quantization, symplectic geometry, and information” in the first 2019/2020 semester at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). The course will by on … Continue reading
Bob Sedgewick’s Free Online Courses on Analysis of Algorithms and Analytic Combinatorics.
Philippe Flajolet 1948-2011 I am happy to forward the announcement on two free online courses (Mooks) by Bob Sedgewick Analysis of Algorithms and Analytic Combinatorics. Analysis of Algorithms page provides access to online lectures, lecture slides, and assignments for … Continue reading
International mathematics graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I am very happy to announce that a Ph. D program in mathematics for international students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is now open. Here is the link to the home page. About the program The Einstein Institute of … Continue reading
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Tagged Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Graduate program, Updates
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Math and Physics Activities at HUJI
Between 11-15 of September 2016 there will be a special mathematical workshop for excellent undergraduate students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In parallel there will also be a workshop in physics. These workshops are aimed for second and third … Continue reading
Analysis of Boolean Functions – Week 7
Lecture 11 The Cap Set problem We presented Meshulam’s bound for the maximum number of elements in a subset A of not containing a triple x,y,x of distinct elements whose sum is 0. The theorem is analogous to Roth’s theorem … Continue reading
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Tagged Cap set problem, Codes, Linearity testing
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Analysis of Boolean Functions week 5 and 6
Lecture 7 First passage percolation 1) Models of percolation. We talked about percolation introduced by Broadbent and Hammersley in 1957. The basic model is a model of random subgraphs of a grid in n-dimensional space. (Other graphs were considered later as … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Probability, Teaching
Tagged Arrow's theorem, Percolation
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