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Barak Weiss: Recent progress on Minkowski’s conjecture

Date: 2026-10-08

Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Zoom link: https://kva-se.zoom.us/j/6583854087

Speaker
Barak Weiss, Tel Aviv University

Abstract
Minkowski’s conjecture is a famous open question in geometry of numbers from the 1890’s. Recently significant progress was made by Open AI’s Astra model using, among other ingredients, an approach suggested in joint work with Boaz Klartag and Or Ordentlich. I will survey the history of the problem and some of the new ideas