Gil Kalai

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Givat-Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
  • Telephone numbers: Office (972)2-6584729, Home (972)2-6536301, Fax (972)2-5630702.
  • Email address: kalai at math.huji.ac.il,

    Yale University

    Department of Computer Science, and Department of Mathematics, Yale University New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A
  • Telephone number: Office 203-4321238
  • e-mail (There is automatic farwarding between the two adresses) kalai at cs.yale.edu

    Weblog: Combinatorics and more .

    Assignement for the Course "Combinatorics" The assinments, and the instructions , and the picture of the tree for II-1 ________________________________________________________ An article (in Hebrew) How to prevent the NEXT strike

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    Popular article: (Hebrew):

    Nati Linial and Gil Kalai, Ten Landmarks in the Story of Mathematics, to appear in "Galileo".

    Popular talk (in Hebrew): Geometry in more than three dimensions.

    Click here for a link to "Madua (=why)" program and lectures.

    Main areas of interest: Combinatorics and convexity.

    Papers and lectures:

    Online papers

    Papers and writings: Recent items:
  • Quantum Computers: Noise Propagation and Adversarial Noise Models
  • With E. Friedgut and N. Nisan, Elections Can be Manipulated Often .
  • with R. Meshulam, Leray numbers of projections and a topological Helly-type theorem.
  • With S. Shelah, An example related to the Sauer-Shelah theorem.
  • Is the universe noise sensitive? and A power point presentation (HU-hep seminar, April 2007).
  • With A. Wigderson, Neighborly embedded manifolds.
  • with J. Kahn, Thresholds and expectation thresholds
  • Science, beliefs and knowledge: a personal reflection on Robert J. Aumann's approach.
  • Noise sensitivity and chaos in social choice theory. And a power point presentation (HU-center of rationality, June, 2007).
  • with M. Safra, Threshold phenomena and influences.
  • Detrimental decoherence. and A power point presentation (prepared for QEC07 - the first international conference on quantum error correction, Los Angeles, Dec 2007).

    My list of publications

    Slides of lectures

    homepages of some past graduate classes

  • Fall 2007, Yale University: Topic in discrete mathematics: Social Choice Theory.

    Fall 2004 (Jeusalem) Algebraic Topology

    Fall 2004 - Course at Yale: Boolean functions

    Kalle Karu proved the nonnegativity of toric h-vectors for general polytopes. The seminar (Fall 2003 HU, with David Kazhdan) Convex polytopes and Toric Varieties , was devoted to studying parts of this proof and related issues.

    Spring 2003: (with Avi Wigderson) Mathematical problems in computer science

  • Classes 2006/2007
  • Fall 2006, Yale University:

    Topic in discrete mathematics: Mathematical problems arising from theoretical computer science. MW 11:30-12:45, AKW 400. Fall 2005, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics: Convexity and Linear Programming

    Fall 2004, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics: Analysis of Boolean function

    Spring 2004, Yale University - Topic in discrete mathematics: Combinaorics.

    Past special semesters, Conferences, workshops and season-schools.

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    Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra

    1 March 2007- 31 August 2007

    Toric varieties, polytope duality, mirror symmetry and Kozsul duality day, Sunday, 18 March. Speakers: Tom Braden, Sasha Zvonkin, Victor Batyrev.

    Valuations day: (organizer: Semyon Alesker), Wednesday, April 11, 2007, speakers: Semyon Alesker, Gil Kalai, Andreas Bernig.

    Midrasha Matematicae: Spring School in Jerusalem: Polytopes, Graphs and Convexity, 6-11 May, 2007.

    Back-to-back mini-workshops:

  • Convexity, Random polytopes, random complexes, random spaces: (co-organizer: Chris Hoffman) June 14,15 and 18, 2007.
  • Combinatorics and Topology: (co-organizer: Rade Zivaljevic) June, 18 - June 21, 2007

    Workshop on Graph Rigidity, Monday, July 9, 10:30. Main speaker, Bob Connelly.

    Thursday August 2 2007, Metric DAY, Lectures by Henry Cohn and Igor Pak.

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    Fall 2004

    WORLSHOP ON BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS: Spet 27-29 2004.

    Yale discrete mathematics seminar Mondays 16:30 AKW-200

  • Spring School 2003 PROGRAM

  • Past and Available computer projects

    Math problems, Math news, Non-math problems (under construction)

    Graduate students and post-docs.

    My Own Supervisor was Micha A. Perles (Both for M.Sc and Ph. D). My host for Post-Doctoral studies was Richard Stanley .

    Ph. D. Students: Graduated: Ron Adin (with Micha A. Perles), Ehud Friedgut , Isabella Novik , Rom Pinchasi (with Micha A. Perles and (unofficially) Janos Pach), Hagit Last, Romina Zigdon, Eyal Beigman, Eran Nevo . Currently: Nathan Keller, Noa Nitzan (with Micha A. Perles).

    M. Sc Students: Graduated: Oded Schramm , Eran London, Yuri Rabinovich , Alex Samorodnitsky , Yuval Roichman , Isabella Novik, Moshe Litvin, Akiva Kadari, Yoav Kirsch, Eran Nevo, Yuval Salant, Yonathan Samet, Eyal Novinsky Currently: Ilan Nechama, Moti Novick, Aviv Sheyn.

    Post-doctorate researchers: Helena Jorge, David Garbiner, Hein van der Holst, Guy Kindler , Mathieu Detour, Frank Valentin , Uli Wagner, Shakhar Smorodinsky.

    Coauthors and collaborators

    Coauthors: Michael Maschler, Guillermo Owen, Noga Alon, Shmuel Friedland, Anders Bjorner, Peter Frankl, Zoltan Furedi, Jeff Kahn, Nati Linial, Jean Bourgain, Yitzhak Katznelson, Daniel Kleitman, Motty Ricklin, Larry Stockmayer, Ehud Friedgut, Jirka Matousek, Itai Benjamini, Oded Schramm, Branden McKay, Maya Bar-Hillel, Dror Bar-Natan, Gunter Meisinger, Peter Kleinschmidt, Roy Meshulam, Ariel Rubinstein, Ran Spiegler, Assaf Naor, Muli Safra, Helene Barcelo, Gunter M. Ziegler, Amnon Shashua, Lior Wolf, Anat Levin, Elchanan Mossel, Olle Haggstrom, Greg Friedman, Saharon Shelah, Avi Wigderson, Irit Dinur, Noam Nisan, Imre Barany.

    Other frequent collaborators: (definition: on more than one occasion we were seriously working on a project with the potential of leading to a joint research paper.) Micha Perles, Richard Stanley, Mike Saks, Lou Billera, Karanbir Sarkaria, Yuval Peres, Eric Babson, Sergiu Hart, Laci Lovasz, Ravi Kannan, Janos Pach, Doron Zeilberger.

    Research interest and projects

  • Face numbers and related invariants of polytopes and complexes
  • The combinatorics of the simplex algorithm
  • Influences, threshold phenomena and random graphs

    Pictures (before 2005). Top right: lecturing in a discrete geometry meeting Ascona , 1999 (taken by: Emo Welzl), left: with Mazi, Lior, Neta and Hagai, Jerusalem 2005, Below: With Itai Benjamini and Oded Schramm, Beit Belgia, Dec 2004 (Tselil Schramm). Below: Listening with Michael Ben-Or and Sergiu Hart to Elchanan Ben-Porath, 2002 (Yaakov Bergman). Below: the joint class with Avi, lecture on evasiveness, 2003 (Boas Barak). Below: right, with Shahar Mozes 2001 (Dror Bar-Natan), left, 24th CCCC (Cambridge Combinatorics and Coffee Club) 2004, Below right: with Yisrael Aumann, 2002 (Yaakov Bergman), left: with Jirka Matousek, 1999 (Emo Welzl).

    Pictures 2005

    Pictures 2006