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Quantum Duel in Prague
Later this evening on 18:00 Prague time there will be a debate between Matthias Christandl and me, about the possibility of quantum computation. The debate will be live-streamed on YouTube. The...
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Recent Academic Events
With members of the discrete geometry seminar in Prague. The 2025 Colloquia in Combinatorics took place in QMUL and UCL, 7 and 8 May 2025. 2025 is the 18th year of the Colloquia in Combinatorics, and...
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Logic at HUJI
As part of a day-long meeting on organization of science in Prague, I gave a 10-minite presentation on Science and Diversity in a small Country (click for my slides) and devoted a few minutes and one...
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Cosmin Pohoata and Daniel G. Zhu: Hypergraphic Zonotopes and Acyclohedra
I would like to draw your attention to the short beautiful paper Hypergraphic Zonotopes and Acyclohedra by Cosmin Pohoata and Daniel G. Zhu. The paper introduces higher-uniformity analogue of graphic...
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Ethereum Foundation Talk and Conversation: A Critical View on Quantum...
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...
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Erdős Lectures 2025: Mehtaab S. Sawhney, June 5,9 & 11
(Click to enlarge) Today, at 14:30, Monday June 9 at 11:00 and Wednesday June 11, at 11:20 Mehtaab S. Sawhney will deliver the 2005 Erdos lecture. Three talks, each representing a monumental...
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A Few Announcements
Trevisan Prize 2025 Here is a call for nominations for a new theoretical computer science prize, in memory of Luca Trevisan. (h/t Alon Rosen.) Three Near Future Events at HUJI While the Erdős Lectures...
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Shakhar Smorodinsky’s Solution to a Radon-Type Problem
A brief update: Since Friday June 13 Israel has been engaged in a direct war with Iran. This follows two major missiles attacks of Iran against Israel in April and October 2024, as well as Iran’s...
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On Coping with the War — and a 1931 Postcard from Akitsugu Kawaguchi to...
One question that I came across on social media (paraphrased here) was: How can you celebrate colleagues’ birthdays or attend conferences while the terrible war that began on October 7 — marked by...
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Sergey Avvakumov and Alfredo Hubard Construct Cubical Spheres with Many Facets!
In this post, I discuss a remarkable new paper Cubulating the sphere with many facets by Sergey Avvakumov and Alfredo Hubard Abstract: For each we construct cube complexes homeomorphic to the -sphere...
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