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- Subject: JERUSALEM COMBINATORICS 9 May - 17 May, 1993
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- JERUSALEM COMBINATORICS '93
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- May 9 - May 17, 1993
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- First announcement
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION and to CONTRIBUTE a TALK
- contact by e-mail kalai@humus.huji.ac.il
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- An international conference on Combinatorics, its applications and relations
- with other areas of Mathematics, will take place at the Hebrew University of
- Jerusalem from Sunday, May 9, 1993 to Monday May 17, 1993. In the first week
- of the conference there will be 28 invited 45-minute lectures as well as two
- one-hour lectures for especially large audience.
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- Sunday May 16, and Monday May 17, will be devoted to eight half-day workshops
- (in two parallel sessions, see below), two special one-hour talks for
- a prepared audience and informal activities.
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- Invited speakers
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- Noga Alon, Helene Barcelo, Margaret Bayer, Louis Billera,
- Joan Birman, Anders Bjorner, Mireille Bousquet-Melou, Lynne Butler,
- Paul Edelman, Paul Erdos, Zoltan Furedi, Hillel Furstenberg,
- Mark Haiman, Shafi Goldwasser, Anna Karlin, Jeff Kahn,
- Daniel Kleitman, Nathan Linial, Kathleen O'Hara, Micha Perles,
- Vera Pless, Karanbir Sarkaria, Vera Serganova, Rodica Simion,
- Vera Sos, Richard Stanley, John Stembridge, Sheila Sundaram,
- Michelle Wachs, Asia Weiss.
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- Workshops
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- Analytic methods in Combinatorics, Organizer: Vitaly Bergelson,
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- The probabilistic method, Organizer: Eli Shamir,
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- Algebraic combinatorics, Organizer: Sheila Sundaram,
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- Enumeration, Organizer: Rodica Simion,
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- Combinatorics, geometry and topology, Organizer: Joseph Zaks,
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- Combinatorics of polyhedra and polyhedral combinatorics, Organizer:
- Peter Kleinschmidt,
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- Graphs and hypergraphs, Organizer: Ron Aharoni,
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- Algorithms and Optimization, Organizer: Ronitt Rubinfeld.
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- Each workshop will include 3-6 lectures. Further details and
- the list of invited speakers will be given in the second announcement.
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- Contributed talks
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- To contribute a talk please send a title and a short abstract not later than
- October 15, 1992.
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- Four special talks
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- There will be two 60-minutes talks especially accessible to a large audience.
- On Sunday, May 9, 18:00 Mireille Bousquet-Melou will talk on POLYOMINOES.
- On Wednesday, May 12, 18:00 Vera Sos will talk on UNAVOIDABLE IRREGULARITIES.
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- There will be two 60-minutes talks which will assume 10-15 hours of prior
- reading by the interested participants.
- On Sunday, May 16, 8:45, Joan Birman will talk on
- THE COMBINATORICS OF FINITE TYPE KNOT INVARIANTS,
- and on Monday, May 17, 8:45, Hillel Furstenberg will talk on
- ERGODIC THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
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- The background material will be provided by e-mail on request.
- Tutoring via e-mail will be provided starting October 1, 1992.
- Tutoring for Birman's talk will be given by Ted Stanford,
- e-mail ts@math.columbia.edu.
- Tutoring for Furstenberg's talk will be given by Vitaly Bergelson,
- e-mail: vitaly@function.mps.ohio-state.edu.
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- Hotel, social events, excursions, etc.
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- We have booked rooms in the Jerusalem Sonesta hotel, which is a 10-minute walk
- from the university. The cost is 47$/54$ for a single/double room.
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- There will be a reception on Monday, May 10 at 17:30. The conference dinner
- will be on Thursday, May 13. Details will be given later.
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- On Wednesday, May 12, we will have a morning excursion to the old city of
- Jerusalem. The plan for Friday afternoon and Saturday is not yet determined.
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- The night of Saturday May 8 is a holiday ``Lag Baomer''. Many bonfires
- (some huge) are expected. We may do an informal bonfire for interested
- participants, stay tuned.
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- Organizing committee
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- Noga Alon (Tel Aviv), Helene Barcelo (Tempe), Anders Bjorner (Stockholm),
- Gil Kalai (Chair, Jerusalem) and Edna Wigderson (Jerusalem).
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- INFORMATION:
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- Gil Kalai, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University,
- Jerusalem, ISRAEL, e-mail kalai@humus.huji.ac.il.
- phone: 972-2-584729 (office) 972-2-536301 (home) 972-2-630702 (fax)
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- Helene Barcelo, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University,
- Tempe, Arizona, USA, e-mail helene@rosie.la.asu.edu
- phone : 602-965-3551 (office) 602-491-4188 (home)
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- JERUSALEM COMBINATORICS 9-17 MAY 93
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- BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR JOAN BIRMAN'S TALKS
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- THE COMBINATORICS OF FINITE-TYPE KNOT INVARIANTS
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- Organized by Ted Stanford
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- e-mail: ts@math.columbia.edu
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- Do NOT hesitate to e-mail Ted Stanford on any question and problem.
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- 1. J. S. Birman, "New points of view in knot and link theory". This is a
- new paper, which Prof. Birman just completed. It will appear in the
- Research-Expositopry section of the Bulletin of the AMS. It's about the
- latest developments, and covers the material Prof. Birman wants
- to discuss in her talk. The combinatorial problems are interesting and
- non-trivial, and if anyone wants to work on them that will be useful.
- We will supply xerox copy of this paper. For those e-mail
- kalai@humus.huji.ac.il.
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- 2. de la Harpe, Kervaire and Weber, "On the Jones Polynomial",
- L'Enseignement Mathematique Volume 32 (1986), p. 271-335. This is a
- self-contained and lucid account of the algebra and combinatorics which
- underlies the Jones polynomial. So, it predates the material in (1) above,
- but postdates that in (3) below.
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- 3. Thistlethwaite, "Knot tabulations and related topics", in ASPECTS OF
- TOPOLOGY, Editor Jones and Kronheimer, London Math Soc. Lecture Notes #93,
- Cambridge Univ. Press 1985. This is a good review of the mathematics before
- Jones.
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- All of those are partially expository, but all have plenty of references
- which will help the interested reader to learn more.
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- JERUSALEM COMBINATORICS 9-17 MAY 93
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- BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR HILLEL FURSTENBERG'S TALKS
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- ERGODIC METHODS IN COMBINATORICS
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- Organized by Vitaly Bergelson
- home 614-436-4004.
- work 614-292-1180.
- e-mail vitaly@function.mps.ohio-state.edu
- DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT VITALY!!!
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- 1. Hillel Furstenberg, Reccurence in ergodic theory and combinatorial number
- theory, Princeton University Press, 1981. Chapters I and II.
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- 2. Hillel Furstenberg, Poincare recurrence and number theory,
- Bull. of AMS. 5(1981), 211-234.
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- 3. Vitaly Bergelson, Ergodic Ramsey Theory, in Logic and Combinatorics,
- S.G. Simpson, ed. Contemporary Mathemtics Vol. 65, American Math. Soc.
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- 4. Vitaly Bergelson, A density statement generalizing Schur's
- theorem.Journal of Combinatorial Theory (Series A), Vol.43, 1986, 338-343.
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- As for the order of reading,the best is the following:
- Start with the introduction to the book - ref. 1., continue with refs 2. and
- 3. then read the first, second and third chapters of ref. 1. Ref. 4. can be
- read anytime in between. It gives a rather easy example of the method.
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- ADDITIONAL READING
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- Hillel Furstenberg and Benjamin Weiss, Topological dynamics and combinatorial
- number theory, J. d'Analyse Math. 34(1978), 275-291.
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- Hillel Furstenberg, Yitzchak Katznelson and Benjamin Weiss, Ergodic theory
- and configurations in sets of positive density in : Mathematics of Ramsey
- Theory (Nesetril and Rodl, eds.) Springer-Verlag 1990.
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- Hillel Furstenberg, Nonconventional ergodic theorems' in: Proceedings
- of Symposia in pure math., vol.50, 1990, pp. 43-56.
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- Other chapters in Furstenberg's book.
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