University of Haifa – החוג למתמטיקה, אוניברסיטת חיפה
Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: Hyperbolic manifolds play an important role in geometry and topology, and in the 1980s Gromov introduced a notion of large-scale negative curvature that is strong enough to…
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poster list of speakers Noga Alon, Princeton University and Tel Aviv University Gil Kalai, Hebrew University Nati Linial, Hebrew University Rom Pinchasi, The Technion Organizers Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa Anna Melnikov, University of Haifa Venue:…
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poster list of speakers Noga Alon, Princeton University and Tel Aviv University Gil Kalai, Hebrew University Nati Linial, Hebrew University Rom Pinchasi, The Technion Organizers Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa Anna Melnikov, University of Haifa Venue:…
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Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: In this talk I will start by a gentle introduction of non-singular actions and ergodic theory. After that we will discuss some recent progress, which culminated in a…
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Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: Substitution schemes provide a classical method for constructing tilings of Euclidean space. Allowing multiple scales to appear in the substitution rule we define “multiscale substitution schemes” and study…
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Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: We prove two theorems on the minimum number of sub-boxes in a partition of a box satisfying certain constraints. One is an old joint result with Alon, Bohman…
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The 2018 distinguished lecture series was given by Professor Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study) – January 8-10. More information on the distinguished lecture series Poster Slides
Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Tea will be served before the talk (at 13:50).
Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: The Ising model, and its generalisation, the Potts model, are two classical graph-colouring models for magnetism and antiferromagnetism. Albeit their simple formulation, these models were instrumental in explaining many…
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Place: Room 614 in the Education & Sciences Building Time: 14:00 Abstract: We discuss interactions between quantum mechanics and symplectic topology including a link between symplectic displacement energy, a fundamental notion of symplectic dynamics, and the quantum speed limit, a…
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