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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
ICM 2018 at Rio, ICM Trivia Questions, the Sao Paulo General Assembly Meeting, and Other Excitements
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
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
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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Vera T. Sòs, Doctor Philisophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Videotaped by Ehud Friedgut.
Sailing into High Dimensions
On June 20 at 13:30 I talk here at HUJI about Sailing into high dimensions. (Thanks to Smadar Bergman for the poster.)
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
Posted in Combinatorics, Conferences, Physics, Updates
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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Duncan Dauvergne and Bálint Virág Settled the Random Sorting Networks Conjectures
A short summary: The beautiful decade-old conjectures on random sorting networks by Omer Angel, Alexander Holroyd, Dan Romik, and Bálint Virág, have now been settled by Duncan Dauvergne and Bálint Virág in two papers: Circular support in random sorting networks, by Dauvergne … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Probability, Updates
Tagged Bálint Virág, Dubcan Dauvergne, Random sorting networks
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Aubrey de Grey: The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5
A major progress on an old standing beautiful problem. Aubrey de Grey proved that the chromatic number of the plane is at least 5. (I first heard about it from Alon Amit.) The Hadwiger–Nelson problem asks for the minimum number of … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Geometry, Open problems, Updates
Tagged Aubrey de Grey, The Hadwiger–Nelson problem
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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
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Quantum, Updates
Tagged Dorit Aharonov, Gilles Zemor
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