Category Archives: Conferences

International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications ICECA 2025 (August 25-27, 2025)

Posted on August 24, 2025 by Gil Kalai

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 with a lecture by Richard Stanley—this time on “Symmetric functions arising from a … Continue reading →

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Joram’s seminar 2025: Hypercontractivity, Groups and Representations

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Gil Kalai

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 Compact Lie Groups by David Ellis, … Continue reading →

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Some Events

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Gil Kalai

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 →

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More Annotated Pictures from Fall/Winter 2024

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Gil Kalai

Pictures from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Athens (!) and Rehovot. The new Google‘s 10,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000 supremacy announcement;  Sarnak’s lectures; the “A-Bass note”  and, fullerences, 3-polytopes with hexagonal and pentagonal faces (answer to TYI58); What was the music in the ancient Jewish Temple? … Continue reading →

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Annotated Pictures from Fall 2024

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Gil Kalai

Apart from pictures, I write about the very first “Test your Intuition” question, a pioneering work of Tutubalin, the hierarchy of valuations of Lehman, Lehman, and Nisan, and three conjectures of Miki Tarsi. September 2024 Rothschild Symposium From left to … Continue reading →

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Winter School on Expansion in Groups, Combinatorics, and Complexity

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Gil Kalai

Next week in Weizmann Institute there will be a Winter school in expansion in groups combinatorics and complexity. (The link includes abstracts for the lectures.) Dates: January 5-8, 2025Venue: The beautiful Lopatie conference center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.Registration: Registration … Continue reading →

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Two Events

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Gil Kalai

Israeli Mathematical Union annual meeting and student talks day, Sunday and Monday, September 8 – 9, 2024. The Annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union will be held on Sunday, September 8th 2024 at the Weizmann Institute. The main speakers … Continue reading →

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Updates from Cambridge

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Gil Kalai

I am writing from Cambridge, UK, where I participated in an impressive conference celebrating Tim Gowers’s 60 birthday and I am about to take part in a satellite workshop of Theoretical computer science. Coming here was the first time I … Continue reading →

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Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2024)

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Gil Kalai

Fun with Algorithms  FUN is a series of conferences dedicated to the use, design, and analysis of algorithms and data structures, focusing on results that are “fun”  but also original and scientifically solid. “Fun”  can be defined in many  ways:  … Continue reading →

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Oberwolfach Workshop: Geometric Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics 2023, part I

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Gil Kalai

This week I participate (remotely) in an exciting Oberwolfach meeting on Geometric Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics. See this post about a whole sequence of related meetings. Let me tell you first about the first two lectures. Federico Ardila,  Recent developments … Continue reading →

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