Colloquium

The most rudimentary description of an elastic body is as a Riemannian manifold (with boundary)  constrained to “live” in an ambient Euclidean space of same dimension. To each configuration (i.e., to each embedding of the body in space) is assigned…
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Speaker: Sergey Komech (Ben Gurion) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: May 20, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: Optimal list-recoverability via alphabet permutation codes Abstract: See attached PDF. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87282501214?pwd=gnoO4TOG9LKBQJrfQ89Od7nUkoy0S3.1 Meeting ID: 872 8250 1214 Passcode: 009572 A basic problem…
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Speaker: Omri Sarig (Weizmann) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: May 20, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: Irregularities in Uniform Distribution Abstract: Suppose a is an irrational number. Weyl proved that a mod 1 is uniformly distributed on the unit interval. i.e.,…
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Speaker: Kay Barshad (Haifa) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: April 8, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: A necessary condition for the guarantee of the superiorization method Abstract: We study a method that involves principally convex feasibility seeking and makes…
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Speaker: Pierre Lochak (Jussieu) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: March 18, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: Grothendieck post-70 and his Galois-Teichmüller theory Abstract: Alexandre Grothendieck left IHÉS in 1970. For a few years he wouldn’t think of mathematics so…
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Speaker: Liat Kessler (Oranim) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: January 28, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: From symplectic deformation to isotopy, equivariantly Abstract: We study symplectic blowups in four-manifolds in the presence of a group action. An (equivariant) symplectic…
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Speaker: Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: January 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: Good locally testable codesAn error-correcting code is locally testable (LTC) if there is a random tester that reads only a small number…
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Speaker: Ron Adin (Bar Ilan) Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: January 14, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Title: Cyclic descents Abstract: Descents of permutations, studied since Euler, have also been defined for other combinatorial objects. They have many applications…
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Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Date and Time: January 7, 2025, 14:00-15:00 Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/galPb3quLg8KWpvmYl7f17Z_a0MdpWoTt0GgSxZ8iZWnQnnkR_robodACDzK5Kgh.nLVwgjqPXEdrB2xo Title: Dense Ideals Abstract: Around 1930 Banach and Ulam investigated the possibility of obtaining a sigma-additive probability measure extending the Lebesgue measure to all subsets of the…
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Place: Room 614, Education and Sciences Building, University of Haifa Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87282501214?pwd=gnoO4TOG9LKBQJrfQ89Od7nUkoy0S3.1 Meeting ID: 872 8250 1214 Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/_6Ea_kl7hTzytTt97ubh3I-OEvr1E404oRqTcLcm5hTrZ2E3hAvLCxVuwTs1dZ5-.OjwqAJPGs75WXvDi Abstract: Probabilistic Galois theory explores the arithmetic properties of random polynomials with integer coefficients, focusing on questions such as irreducibility and the structure…
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