Monthly Archives: November 2017

Basic Notions Seminar is Back! Helly Type Theorems and the Cascade Conjecture

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Gil Kalai

Kazhdan’s Basic Notion Seminar is back! The “basic notion seminar” is an initiative of David Kazhdan who joined the Hebrew University math department  around 2000. People give series of lectures about basic mathematics (or not so basic at times). Usually, speakers do … Continue reading →

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My Very First Book “Gina Says”, Now Published by “World Scientific”

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Gil Kalai

I just received an advanced copy of my very first book: “Gina Says: Adventures in the Blogsphere String War” published by Word Scientific. It is a much changed version compared to the Internet version of 8 years ago and it … Continue reading →

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Itai Benjamini: Coarse Uniformization and Percolation & A Paper by Itai and me in Honor of Lucio Russo

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Gil Kalai

Here is another video of a smashing short talk by my dear friend Itai Benjamini with beautiful conjectures proposing an important new step in the connection between percolation and conformal geometry. Here is the link to Itai’s original paper Percolation … Continue reading →

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After-Dinner Speech for Alex Lubotzky

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Gil Kalai

An after-dinner speech given on November  9, 2016*, on Alex Lubotzky’s 60th birthday conference: 60 faces to Groups.   As we all realized waking up this morning, today is a historic day*. It is the dinner day for Alex 60th‘s … Continue reading →

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Boaz Barak: The different forms of quantum computing skepticism

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Gil Kalai

Originally posted on Windows On Theory:
(see also pdf version) ? Quantum computing is one of the most exciting developments of computer science in the last decades. But this concept is not without its critics, often known as “quantum computing…

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Bálint Virág: Random matrices for Russ

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Gil Kalai

You can watch now all the videos for Russfest Elegance in Probability. Many great talks! I just watched Bálint Virág‘s lecture “Random matrices for Russ”. Highly recommended.

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