Tag Archives: Avi Wigderson

Avifest live streaming

Posted on October 5, 2016 by

Live streaming for Avifest is available here. The program is here. Following the first two lectures I can witness that the technical quality of the broadcast is very good and the scientific quality of the lectures is superb. As this is … Continue reading →

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AviFest, AviStories and Amazing Cash Prizes.

Posted on July 7, 2016 by

  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 →

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Fractional Sylvester-Gallai

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Avi Wigderson was in town and gave a beautiful talk about an extension of Sylvester-Gallai theorem. Here is a link to the paper: Rank bounds for design matrices with applications to combinatorial geometry and locally correctable codes by Boaz Barak, Zeev … Continue reading →

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Combinatorics, Mathematics, Academics, Polemics, …

Posted on April 29, 2008 by

1. About: My name is Gil Kalai and I am a mathematician working mainly in the field of Combinatorics.  Within combinatorics, I work mainly on geometric combinatorics and the study of convex polytopes and related objects, and on the analysis of Boolean functions … Continue reading →

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