Celebrating 100 Years: Avi 70 + CSDM 30 0 ▲ Combinatorics and more 23 minutes ago · Science · hide Greetings everybody from Tel Aviv! Irit Dinur and Amir Shpilka asked me to spread the word through my blog about the celebration for Avi Wigderson and for computer science and discrete mathematics at IAS. Avi Fest @ IAS: Dates: June 14-18, 2027 The Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics is pleased to announce a conference celebrating Avi Wigderson’s 70th birthday and retirement, together with 30 years of the Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics program (CSDM) at IAS. The conference will honor both Avi’s extraordinary scientific legacy and his transformative role in shaping the intellectual community around theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics at IAS. Here is the conference home page Two weeks ago, Edna and Avi Wigderson hosted us in Princeton, where Edna prepared a wonderful dinner for me and my beloved friends—Avi, Edna, Noga, Nati, Elon, Abigail, Irit, and Hadar. The following week, just a day before the general election, we met again in Israel… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town