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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Forwarding this in case there is interest.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Irina Holmes <irinaholmes@math.tamu.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2020 6:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eisworth, Todd <eisworth@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Workshop Announcement<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Prof. Eisworth,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I would be grateful if you could forward this announcement of a summer workshop to the faculty, graduate students and postdocs in your department.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Irina Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Announcement: Summer Concentration Week (Part of SUMIRFAS) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">When: August 3-7, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Where: Texas A&M University, College Station TX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">What: “Bellman Function Methods for the Hypercube”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Website: <a href="https://www.math.tamu.edu/~irinaholmes/CW2020/CW2020.html">https://www.math.tamu.edu/~irinaholmes/CW2020/CW2020.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Organizers: Irina Holmes (TAMU) and Sasha Volberg (MSU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Description: This workshop is aimed at graduate students and postdocs in analysis, probability and related fields. The topic is a new approach to functional and isoperimetric inequalities on the Hamming cube,
aka the hypercube. Boolean functions defined on the hypercube are fundamental objects of study to many applied fields, from circuit design and cryptography to social choice theory. Very surprising recent works solve problems on the hypercube using a method
from harmonic analysis and probability, called the Bellman function method. The goal will be to introduce the main tools, current results and open problems in this area by a series of minicourses by Sasha Volberg, Paata Ivanisvili, and Irina Holmes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">No specific knowledge on these topics is expected, only a standard graduate background in analysis and probability. Our junior participants will be encouraged to share their own research (current, in progress or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Caution about funding: We are not able to fund travel for any participant, but the housing will be provided by the conference. Therefore all participants are encouraged to seek travel funding from their home institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more details and Registration, please visit the website linked above. If you decide to join us, please fill out the Registration form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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