Ethereum Foundation talk, today
This afternoon (Tuesday, June 3, 2025) at 17:00 Israel time I give a zoom lecture on A Critical View on Quantum Computing. The lecture is hosted by the Ethereum Foundation and the 90 minute events will include question/answers/conversation with the Etherium participants. The talk will be streamlined on You Tube here https://youtube.com/live/HhWWkTkaXSI?feature=share . (It will be uploaded to You Tube as well.)
I plan to devote the first 35-40 minutes to the opening slides of This presentation. The presentation (click to open), contains five additional parts and we may zoom in one one or two parts at the request of the participants.
- Part II: Background: Boolean circuits; quantum circuits; efficient computation
- Part III: The Argument Against Quantum Computers;
- Part IV: Noise Stability and sensitivity for boson sampling;
- Part V: The failure of quantum computation – underlying principles and consequences;
- Part VI: The Analysis of Google’s 2019 experiment and other QC experiments
Later at 20:00 I plan to be with Eran, my son in law, and Ilan and Yoav, my grandchildren, at a basketball game between Hapo’el Tel Aviv and Hapo’el Jerusalem, and my grandchildren taught me some (mild) required songs (and advised a red T-shirt).
A geometry day tomorrow honoring Micha Sharir
Tomorrow (June 4, 2025) there will be a geometry day in honor of Micha Sharir’s 75th birthday. And congratulations, Micha, for being named the 2025 Knuth Prize recipient. Here is the agenda:
· 10am: Rom Pinchasi – Odd area and odd volume (Micha Sharir is 75)
· 11am: Danny Halperin – The Piano Movers at 40: Geometry for Robotics
· Noon: Gil Kalai – Helly type theorems and problems
· 2:30pm: A special session that includes personal addresses, gifts, videos, and more. This event will also be on Zoom.
· 4pm: Noga Alon – Micha, Distance problems, and typical norms
· 5pm: Esther Ezra – Recent Developments in Intersection Searching in 3-Space.
· 6pm: Rachel Saban – Shrink and bifurcate
And here is an interview with Micha Sharir by Toufik Mansour, and a short segment from a videotaped interview with Micha. (For the full interview click here.)
For the game tonight I found a red shirt designed by Alef.
