University of Haifa – החוג למתמטיקה, אוניברסיטת חיפה
I will report some recent results on groups with good metric approximation properties, called weak sofic and weak hyperlinear groups. The class of weak sofic groups was introduced by L. Glebsky and L. M. Rivera, as a generalization of the…
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Suppose a light source is placed in a polygonal hall of mirrors (so light can bounce off the walls). Does every point in the room get illuminated? This elementary geometrical question was open from the 1950s until Tokarsky (1995) found…
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2013 Date Speaker Title 9/6 Simona Paoli (Leicester) Bicategories and weakly globular double categories 19/5 Hans-Joachim Baues (Max Planck) The algebra of higher cohomology operations 12/5 Tobias Hartnik (Technion) From Rogers’ dilogarithm to the continuous bounded cohomology of SL_2(R) 5/5…
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2015 Date Speaker Title 20/1 Efrat Bank (Tel Aviv) Prime polynomial values of linear functions in short intervals 6/1 Shaul Zemel (Darmstadt) On Lattices over Valuation Rings of Arbitrary Rank 2014 Date Speaker Title 23/12 Lior Rosenzweig (Stockholm) Diophantine approximation…
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2014 Date Speaker Title 10/6 Eli Appleboim (Technion) A geographical riddle 13/5 Eitan Lapidot (Haifa) Herbert and the Hungarian Mathematician 22/4 Eli Berger (Haifa) Is the sum of all natural numbers minus 1 over 12 ? 1/4 Raphael Yuster (Haifa)…
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2015 Date Speaker Title 27/1 Anish Ghosh (Tata – Mumbai) Diophantine approximation and dynamical systems 20/1 Remi Coulon (CNRS) Periodic groups and there automorphisms 13/1 Ron Livne (Hebrew University) The Eratosthenes sieve – now and then 6/1 Amos Nevo (Technion)…
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