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SUMMARY:The 25th Midrasha Mathematicae on Groups, Expanders and Codes – Celebrating the 70’s birthday of Alex Lubotzky
DESCRIPTION:General Director:
Peter Sarnak, IAS Princeton
Organizers:

Michael Chapman, IAS Princeton
Shai Evra, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ori Parzanchevski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In the past few years, there has been several exciting developments at the confluence of pure mathematics and theoretical computer science. These include:
The refutations of Connes’ embedding problem and the Aldous–Lyons conjecture using tools from group stability, complexity theory and quantum information theory.
The construction of good locally testable codes and good quantum LDPC codes, using breakthroughs in high dimensional expansion.
This conference is devoted to these results and the theory surrounding them, and will celebrate the 70’s birthday of Alex Lubotzky, whose contributions range from establishing the very foundations of these fields, to the most recent breakthroughs.
Speakers:

Miklós Abért, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Uri Bader, Weizmann Institute of Science
Emmanuel Breuillard, University of Oxford
Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute and IAS Princeton
Isaac Goldbring, UC Irvine
Venkatesan Guruswami, University of California, Berkeley
Dor Minzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicolas Monod, EPFL
Pavel Panteleev, Moscow State University
Doron Puder, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study
Bharatram Rangarajan, UC Louvain
Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
Avi Wigderson, IAS Princeton
Shmuel Weinberger, The University of Chicago
Rachel Zhang, MIT

 
LOCATION:IIAS, Feldman Bldg, Givat Ram, JLM
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