Toufic Mansour The fourth International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications will take place online, August 25–27, 2025. As in the previous three editions, the conference opens …| Combinatorics and more
Over the past few years, I have given several lectures about quantum computation, presenting my argument for why quantum computing—and even significant early milestones toward it—are fundamentally …| Combinatorics and more
4 posts published by Gil Kalai during July 2025| Combinatorics and more
h/t Benny Sudakov The Ramsey number R(ℓ,k) is the smallest integer n such that in any two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on n vertices, , by red and blue, there is either a red (a complete graph … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
Joram’s seminar 2025 Here is my summary of the recent Joram’s seminar that took place on July 9 and 10 in Jerusalem. Much of the seminar was about the the paper Product Mixing in Compac…| Combinatorics and more
Let me briefly report on two birthday conferences for long-time friends and colleagues Saharon Shelah and Yuri Gurevich. Yuri fest took place in Munich and on Zoom between June 20–22 2025 and Shelah’s birthday conference will be held in Vienna … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
Annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union and student talks day, July 6 and 7 The Annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union will be held on Sunday, July 6th 2025 at Bar-Ilan University. The main speakers will be Elon … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
Three pictures showing that the media control symbol “play” was successfully embedded into London’s skyline 🙂 . The fourth rare picture is a screenshot with the control symbol “play” appearing side by side with its natural London demonstration. And here … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
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 with vertices in which the number of facets … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
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 senseless horror, death, and destruction in both … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
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 central role in the … Continue reading →| Combinatorics and more
Update: Let me mention a ninth paper that just appeared on the arXive. IX. … and the optimal sofa for the moving sofa problem is … Gerver’s sofa. Optimality of Gerver’s Sofa…| Combinatorics and more
“Quantum supremacy is important both in its own right and as a benchmark or step toward something further. But my theory is that quantum supremacy cannot be achieved, and this is based on a…| Combinatorics and more
