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                     Bar-Ilan Combinatorics Seminar
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The next meeting of the seminar this year will take place, IYH, on

(when)  Tuesday, 9 Tevet (Dec. 18)
        refreshments at 11:45, talk at 12:00 noon

(where) Room 331 (Math Dept Seminar Room),
        Math and CS Building (216), Bar-Ilan University

(who)   Alex Samorodnitsky (Hebrew University)

        will talk about

(what)  "Counting magic squares"

Abstract:
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A magic square is a nonnegative integer matrix with equal row and column        
sums. I will describe a quasi-polynomial algorithm for approximate              
counting of magic squares.                                                      
                                                                                
Joint work with Alexander Barvinok and Alex Yong                                


Forthcoming Events
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* 16 Tevet (Dec. 25)
  Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion):
  "Subspace polynomials and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes"
* 23 Tevet (Jan. 1)
  --- no meeting ---  Representation Theory Conference - see
  <http://www.math.biu.ac.il/~margolis/conference/front.htm>
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You are all invited ! (Graduate students especially welcome)
If you want to give a talk at the seminar, or know a prospective speaker,
please contact  Ron Adin <radin@math.biu.ac.il>.
Seminar's homepage: see              <http://www.math.biu.ac.il/seminars>
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