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Tag Archives: Endre Szemeredi
The Brown-Erdős-Sós 1973 Conjecture
Greetings from Oberwolfach. This week, there is a great meeting here on combinatorics. In this post I want to state the Brown-Erdős-Sós conjecture and one of its variants. The trigger was a beautiful talk I heard from Lior Gishboliner on … Continue reading
Celebrations in Sweden and Norway
Celebrations for Endre, Jean and Terry Anders Bjorner presents the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics I am in Sweden for two weeks to work with colleagues and to take part in two celebrations. Jean Bourgain and Terence Tao are the 2012 laureates … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Combinatorics, Conferences, Updates
Tagged Endre Szemeredi, Jean Bourgain, Terry Tao
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Roth’s Theorem: Tom Sanders Reaches the Logarithmic Barrier
Click here for the most recent polymath3 research thread. I missed Tom by a few minutes at Mittag-Leffler Institute a year and a half ago Suppose that is a subset of of maximum cardinality not containing an arithmetic progression of length 3. Let . … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems
Tagged Endre Szemeredi, Jean Bourgain, Klaus Roth, Roger Heath-Brown, Roth's theorem, Tom Sanders
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Budapest, Seattle, New Haven
Here we continue the previous post on Summer 2010 events in Reverse chronological order. Happy birthday Srac In the first week of August we celebrated Endre Szemeredi’s birthday. This was a very impressive conference. Panni, Endre’s wife, assisted by her … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Conferences
Tagged Branko Grunbaum, Conferences, Endre Szemeredi, Victor Klee
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