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AlexFest: 60 Faces of Groups
Ladies and gentlemen, A midrasha (school) in honor of Alex Lubotzky’s 60th birthday will take place from November 6 – November 11, 2016 at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Don’t miss the event! And … Continue reading
Posted in Algebra and Number Theory, Combinatorics, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Alex Lubotzky
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Postoctoral Positions with Karim and Other Announcements!
Postoctoral positions with Karim Adiprasito My young friend and colleague Karim Adiprasito told me that he has funding for postdocs (with or without teaching) and students (with or without teaching), both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the MPI/University … Continue reading
AviFest, AviStories and Amazing Cash Prizes.
Ladies and gentlemen, a workshop in Princeton in honor of Avi Wigderson’s 60th birthday is coming on October. It will take place at Princeton on October 5-8 2016 right before FOCS 2016. Don’t miss the event ! Attendance is free but … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Avi Wigderson
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Mind Boggling: Following the work of Croot, Lev, and Pach, Jordan Ellenberg settled the cap set problem!
A quote from a recent post from Jordan Ellenberg‘s blog Quomodocumque: Briefly: it seems to me that the idea of the Croot-Lev-Pach paper I posted about yesterday (GK: see also my last post) can indeed be used to give a new bound … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged Cap sets, Dion Gijswijt, Ernie Croot, Jordan Ellenberg, Peter Pach, Seva Lev.
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More Math from Facebook
David Conlon pointed out to two remarkable papers that appeared on the arxive: Joel Moreira solves an old problem in Ramsey’s theory. Monochromatic sums and products in . Abstract: An old question in Ramsey theory asks whether any finite coloring … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Mathematics over the Internet, Updates
Tagged Ernie Croot, Joel Moreira, Peter Pach, Vsevolod Lev
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The Erdős Szekeres polygon problem – Solved asymptotically by Andrew Suk.
Here is the abstract of a recent paper by Andrew Suk. (I heard about it from a Facebook post by Yufei Zhao. I added a link to the original Erdős Szekeres’s paper.) Let ES(n) be the smallest integer such that … Continue reading
The Quantum Computer Puzzle @ Notices of the AMS
The Quantum Computer Puzzle My paper “the quantum computer puzzle” has just appeared in the May 2016 issue of Notices of the AMS. Here are the beautiful drawings for the paper (representing the “optimistic view” and the “pessimistic view”) by my … Continue reading
Three Conferences: Joel Spencer, April 29-30, Courant; Joel Hass May 20-22, Berkeley, Jean Bourgain May 21-24, IAS, Princeton
Dear all, I would like to advertise three promising-to-be wonderful mathematical conferences in the very near future. Quick TYI. See if you can guess the title and speaker for a lecture described by “where the mathematics of Cauchy, Fourier, Sobolev, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Combinatorics, Conferences, Geometry, Updates
Tagged Jean Bourgain, Joel Hass, Joel Spencer
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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
A Breakthrough by Maryna Viazovska Leading to the Long Awaited Solutions for the Densest Packing Problem in Dimensions 8 and 24
Maryna Viazovska The news Maryna Viazovska has solved the densest packing problem in dimension eight! Subsequently, Maryna Viazovska with Henry Cohn, Steve Miller, Abhinav Kumar, and Danilo Radchenko solved the densest packing problem in 24 dimensions! Here are the links to … Continue reading
