The 2017 Turing Award winner, Dave Patterson, from the University of California, Berkeley, presented on Thursday morning of the HLF a talk called “The Past is Prologue: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture.” He … Read more
GINA SMITH has been collecting some of the more memorable quotes and quips from math and computer science laureates at this week’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF 2018) in Heidelberg. Here’s a running list … Weiterlesen
For the Wednesday afternoon of HLF, the entire conference gets on a (very large) boat and heads off for a gentle cruise down the river, drink in hand and ready to enjoy the scenery. The … Weiterlesen
Nachdem er seinen Vortrag im Heidelberger Preisträgerforum beendet und Fragen dazu beantwortet hatte, gab David Patterson noch eine Zugabe: eine kurze Geschichte seiner ungeplanten Karriere als das, was er einen “zufälligen Berkeley-Professor” nannte. Dieser Teil … Read more
After he had finished his talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and taken some questions, David Patterson gave an encore: a brief history of his unplanned career as what he called an “accidental Berkeley professor”. … Read more
On Wednesday afternoon, HLF got out of the lecture halls and cruise down the Neckar River. I decided to spend my time listening in on conversations and jumping in when I could and asking “what … Weiterlesen
Alongside the HLF this year, an exhibit celebrates female mathematicians from around Europe (written about by Gina in a post earlier this week) and includes photographs, interview quotes and beautiful mathematical equations, which come together … Read more
Einer der spannenden Aspekte von Mathematik ist, dass es selbst bei Fragen, die sich sehr einfach formulieren lassen, ausnehmend schwer sein kann, die korrekte Antwort zu finden. Fragen Sie einfach Mira Shalah, eine der Nachwuchsforscherinnen … Read more
One of the most fun things about mathematics is that sometimes you can formulate very simple questions that turn out surprisingly hard to answer. Just ask Mira Shalah, one of this year’s Young Researchers at … Read more
During day two of the Heidelberg Laureate Form, the term machine learning or “ML” has been popping up during talks and in conversations with young researchers and the laureates. Machine learning uses algorithms to give … Weiterlesen
Maybe not. But Nobel physicist Phillips for sure stole the show with an explosively fun presentation at HLF 2018 today. Here’s what happened. Weiterlesen
The HLF included a talk today from 2018 Fields medalist Caucher Birkar. His subject area, algebraic geometry, is one of the largest fields of research within pure mathematics (over a quarter of the 60 Fields … Read more
At last year’s HLF, Turing Award Leslie Lamport gave us his (not wholly complimentary) thoughts on the state of proof-writing in mathematics. Since he has worked in both maths and computer science, members of the … Weiterlesen
Is your 2-year-old smarter than your computer? Yes, simply because she is human. While she might not know how to read or do simple addition, she has the uniquely human ability to rationalize. She can … Weiterlesen
HLF 2018 — “Don’t you know? Mathematics isn’t feminine.” It’s the kind of backward, old-fashioned comment one can imagine a little girl getting in the midst of a 1950s elementary school math competition. But Nilanjana … Weiterlesen
Der mit Spannung erwartete Vortrag von Sir Michael Atiyah über einen (möglichen) Beweis für die berühmte Riemannsche Vermutung gestern morgen war durchaus lebhaft. Die Details hatte ich Folie für Folie live getwittert; sie sind durch … Read more
The eagerly awaited talk yesterday morning by Sir Michael Atiyah about what he says is a proof of the famous Riemann Hypothesis was very enjoyable. Feel free to read up on it in my blow-by-blow sequence … Read more
This year at the HLF there are multiple sessions in the program concerning the Riemann Hypothesis, including a talk from one of the laureates, and one of the young-researcher-led workshop sessions. But what exactly is … Read more
Meet Amy Xian Zhang, computer scientist and one of this year’s 10 out of 200 young researchers participating in the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum from September 23-28, 2018. What is your name and nationality? My name is Amy Xian … Weiterlesen
This year’s edition of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum will be accompanied by the exhibition Women in Mathematics, a collection of portraits that has been shown in several countries for the last 2 years. With this … Read more