Monthly Archives: January 2026

ICECA 2026 (August 17-19, 2026), an interview with Christian Krattenthaler, and Condorcet revisited.

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Gil Kalai

Toufic Mansour, Christian Krattenthaler, and Condorcet. International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications (ICECA 2026) The fifth International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications will take place online on August 17-19, 2026.  Invited speakers include George E. Andrews, Sara Billey, … Continue reading →

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Dominik Hangleiter’s View Posts on: Has Quantum Advantage Been Achieved?

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Gil Kalai

In a recent post on Quantum Frontiers—the first in a series of three—Dominik Hangleiter discusses the question of whether quantum advantage (also known as “quantum supremacy”) has been achieved. (Update, Jan. 26: here is Dominik’s second post; March 4: here … Continue reading →

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A Ten-Year-Old Video about Larry Guth and Netz Katz.

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Gil Kalai

Facebook recently reminded of a videotaped lecture I gave ten years ago on Larry Guth and Nets Katz. In that lecture, I discussed their famous joint work on the Erdős distinct distances problem, as well as some of their individual … Continue reading →

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Combinatorics News

Posted on January 1, 2026 by Gil Kalai

Happy new 2026 to all our readers! Here are some very interesting combinatorics results that I learned about recently. I will try to write in some more details about some of them later on.  1) Gaussian random graphs and Ramsey … Continue reading →

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