Last hours of 2024: One Wish, Reviving(?) Polymath3, Peter Sarnak’s Question, and Quantum Plans

Consider equipped with a norm. Given a finite set of points and a point , we consider , the sum of distances from to the points in . Next we consider the set of points that attain the minimum of … Continue reading →

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 →

Good news: the slice conjecture is now completely settled with combined effort of two separate papers. Qingyang Guan,  A note on Bourgain’s slicing problem Abstract: This note is to study Bourgain’s slicing problem following the routes investigated in the last … Continue reading →

Peter Sarnak will give the Gordon memorial lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the end of December 2024, Peter Sarnak will deliver the Mark Gordon memorial lecture series on Spectra of locally symmetric geometries at the Hebrew University … Continue reading →

The 2019 paper “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”  asserted that Google’s Sycamore quantum computer,  with 53 qubits and a depth of 20, performed a specific computation in about 200 seconds. According to Google’s estimate, a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer … Continue reading →