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Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all
Science magazine has an article written by Adrian Cho Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all. It is about the remarkable progress in classical simulations of sampling task like those sampling tasks that led to the 2019 Google’s … Continue reading
ICM 2022 Virtual Program, Live events, and Dynamics Week in Jerusalem
ICM 2022 Next Tuesday, July 5 2022 will be the opening day of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2022) that, because of the war in Ukraine, will be fully virtual. Here is the link for the program for ICM … Continue reading
Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future
Noam Nisan is 60 Today, June 26 2022, is the opening day of Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Noam Nisan’s 60th Birthday. The workshop takes place on June 26-30 2022, at the CS … Continue reading
Reflections: On the Occasion of Ron Adin’s and Yuval Roichman’s Birthdays, and FPSAC 2021
Two hybrid conferences, Bar-Ilan University:Monday, January 10,2022 10:00-16:00 (Israel time) Reflections: On the occasion of Ron Adin’s and Yuval Roichman’s 60th Birthdays. FPSAC 2021 Starting Monday, January 10,2022 16:30 (Israel time). Ending Thursday, January 20, 2022.
Combinatorial Theory is Born
A few hours ago the first issue of Combinatorial Theory was published. I am happy and proud to take part in this new endeavor. The editorial speaks for itself. This is the first issue of our new journal, Combinatorial Theory. … Continue reading
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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Face to face talks and recorded videotaped introductions
Many face to face activities are now resuming. Last week I took part in a great conference on high dimensional expanders at the Simons Foundation, I recently gave real life talks with large audiences also in U. Chicago and Rutgers, … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Physics, Probability, Quantum, Updates
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Mathematical news to cheer you up
1. Anna Kiesenhofer, a PhD mathematician researching PDEs at Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL), won the gold medal in the women’s bicycle road race at the Olympics. Here are two trivia question: a) Which hero of a recent post over … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Sport, Uncategorized, Updates
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To cheer you up in difficult times 27: A major recent “Lean” proof verification
“Lean is a functional programming language that makes it easy to write correct and maintainable code. You can also use Lean as an interactive theorem prover.” (See Lean’s homepage and see here for an introduction to lean.) Kevin Buzzard’s blog … Continue reading
Posted in Algebra, Updates, What is Mathematics
Tagged Kevin Buzzard, Lean, Peter Scholze
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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
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