Avond van de Abelprijs 2021 / Evening of the Abel Prize 2021 - Avi Wigderson & László Lovász

De Abelprijs wordt gezien als de ‘Nobelprijs voor de wiskunde' en wordt sinds 2003 jaarlijks uitgereikt. De Abelprijs 2021 is toegekend aan de Israëlische computerwetenschapper Avi Wigderson en de Hongaarse wiskundige László Lovász. Zij ontvingen de prijs voor hun baanbrekende bijdragen op het gebied van de theoretische informatica en de discrete wiskunde. Tijdens de Avond van de Abelprijs 2021 vertellen zij over hun werk.
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The Abel Prize 2021 was awarded to the Israeli computer scientist Avi Wigderson and the Hungarian mathematician László Lovász. They received the prize for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics. During the Evening of the Abel Prize 2021 both prize winners will be present and will talk about their work.

00:35 Frank den Hollander, Professor of Probability Theory at the University of Leiden – Welcome
02:38 Harry Buhrman, Professor of Algorithms, Complexity Theory, and Quantum Computing at the University of Amsterdam – Introduction to the work of Avi Wigderson
13:13 Avi Wigderson, Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton - Imitation Games
01:04:38 Questions and discussion
01:08:02 Lex Schrijver, Fellow at CWI and Emeritus-Professor of Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam – Introduction to the work of László Lovász
01:21:05 László Lovász, Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest –
What is a graph limit and what is it good for?
02:03:50 Questions and discussion