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Birzeit 2018 Conference « Randomness, Graphs, Trees, Walks, Statistics »
The RGTW2018 conference on « Randomness, Graphs, Trees, Walks, Statistics » initially scheduled on February 17-22, 2018 is postponed to August 27-30, 2018. The location of the conference will be Birzeit university.
The main topics of the conference will be random graphs, trees and walks. There will also be lectures on dynamical systems, stochastic networks and statistics.
Palestinian mathematicians, academics or advanced students are warmly invited to attend the conference.
The organisers: Hani Kabajah and Pierre Nicodeme
For an Institute of Political Studies united in solidarity Call for support – No to partnerships complicit in apartheid
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Former president of Modern Language Association resigns following decision to ban debate on BDS
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To Paula Krebs, Executive Director of the MLA, and to the Officers and other members of the MLA Executive Council
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