Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin ( Russian: Влади́мир Абра́мович Ро́хлин) (23 August 1919 – 3 December 1984) was a Soviet mathematician, who made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entropy theory. (Wikipedia).
What Happens To Sanctioned Oligarchs' Assets?
Sign up for Morning Brew Here: https://bit.ly/mbpatrickboyle3 The UK announced new sanctions yesterday relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, targeting seven oligarchs with links to Vladimir Putin. Among them is Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC. In todays video we try to a
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CGSR Seminar Series | US-Russia Conflict and International Security
Speaker Biography Matthew Rojansky is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. He has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance share
From playlist Center for Global Security Research
Борис Н. Петров - Boris N. Petrov: Space Pioneer, Automatic Control Engineer(USSR)
The life of automatic control engineer Boris N. Petrov, a pioneer of the Russian space program. Борис Н. Петров Solved automatic control issues in rockets and ballistic missiles, He published many papers on control science with Vladislav Rutkovsky who narrates the story of his life. Leade
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Союз - Аполлон / Space: Apollo-Soyuz Leader Boris Petrov
Control engineer Boris N. Petrov was the leader on the Russian side of the Apollo-Soyuz Program 1975. His work included solving fuel consumption problems for rockets and a myriad of other technical issues. The Edison Tech Center interviewed Vladislav Rutkovsky - living pioneer in Russian
From playlist Russian Engineering
Gagarin the first man in space died in a plane crash. See here footage from his funeral in 1968. No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union). L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yu
From playlist FUNERALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
History Lists: Who Is Vladimir Putin? | History
Get the facts about Russian President Vladimir Putin and his rise to power. Newsletter: https://www.history.com/newsletter Website - http://www.history.com /posts Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/History Twitter - https://twitter.com/history HISTORY Topical Video Season 1 Episode 1 W
From playlist Examine the Past | History
How Did Russian Oligarchs Get So Rich?
Subscribe to The Daily Upside! (Free Business & Finance Newsletter): https://bit.ly/38LgdGN Russian Oligarchs have become synonymous with superyachts, luxury mansions and the shady political maneuvering of post-Soviet Russia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian billionaires lik
From playlist Long Videos
Joachim Zacharias: Noncommutative covering dimension for C*-algebras and dynamical systems
(in collaboration with Hirshberg, Szabo, Winter, Wu) Various noncommutative generalisations of dimension have been considered and studies in the past decades. In recent years certain new dimension concepts for noncommutative C*-algebras, called nuclear dimension and a related dimension co
From playlist HIM Lectures: Trimester Program "Non-commutative Geometry and its Applications"
Interview with Alexander Goncharov
Prof. Alexander Goncharov is the first Gretchen and Barry Mazur Chairholder at IHES and a Professor in Mathematics at Yale University. In this interview he explains how he became interested in mathematics, his connection with IHES and with Barry Mazur, and talks about his research interest
From playlist Les entretiens de l'IHES
Factorization of birational maps on steroids - Dan Abramovich
Dan Abramovich Brown University April 14, 2015 Searching literature you will find the following statement (I'm paraphrasing): "If X1,X2X1,X2 are nonsingular schemes proper over a complete DVR RR with residue characteristic 0, and ϕ:X1→X2ϕ:X1→X2 is birational, then ϕϕ can be factored as a s
From playlist Mathematics
Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev: The Current State of Ukraine’s Government
Yuriy Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He is here at Yale as a visiting fellow in the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center. Episode April 20, 2016
From playlist The MacMillan Report
Entropy Equipartition along almost Geodesics in Negatively Curved Groups by Amos Nevo
PROGRAM : ERGODIC THEORY AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (HYBRID) ORGANIZERS : C. S. Aravinda (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru), Anish Ghosh (TIFR, Mumbai) and Riddhi Shah (JNU, New Delhi) DATE : 05 December 2022 to 16 December 2022 VENUE : Ramanujan Lecture Hall and Online The programme will have an emphasis
From playlist Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 2022
Low degree points on curves. - Vogt - Workshop 2 - CEB T2 2019
Isabel Vogt (MIT) / 27.06.2019 Low degree points on curves. In this talk we will discuss an arithmetic analogue of the gonality of a curve over a number field: the smallest positive integer e such that the points of residue degree bounded by e are infinite. By work of Faltings, Harris–S
From playlist 2019 - T2 - Reinventing rational points
Algebraic curves, tropical geometry, and moduli - Sam Payne
Sam Payne Yale University February 11, 2015 Tropical geometry gives a new approach to understanding old questions about algebraic curves and their moduli spaces, synthesizing techniques that range from Berkovich spaces to elementary combinatorics. I will discuss an outline of this method,
From playlist Mathematics
Recursive combinatorial aspects of compactified moduli spaces – Lucia Caporaso – ICM2018
Algebraic and Complex Geometry Invited Lecture 4.3 Recursive combinatorial aspects of compactified moduli spaces Lucia Caporaso Abstract: In recent years an interesting connection has been established between some moduli spaces of algebro-geometric objects (e.g. algebraic stable curves)
From playlist Algebraic & Complex Geometry
Maxim Kontsevich, Equations for stability
Maxim Kontsevich, IHÉS, France Equations for stability
From playlist Conférence en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Resolution of singularities of complex algebraic varieties – D. Abramovich – ICM2018
Algebraic and Complex Geometry Invited Lecture 4.13 Resolution of singularities of complex algebraic varieties and their families Dan Abramovich Abstract: We discuss Hironaka’s theorem on resolution of singularities in charactetistic 0 as well as more recent progress, both on simplifying
From playlist Algebraic & Complex Geometry
Lenin & Trotsky - Their Rise To Power I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
Felshtinsky, Yuri: Lenin, Trotsky, Germany and the Treaty of Brest- Ltivosk. The Collapse of the World Revolution. November 1917- November 1918, Milford 2012: http://amzn.to/2oILHmK Swain, Geoffrey: Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. New York 2014: http://amzn.to/2CY0gqF Swain, Geoffre
From playlist Who Did What In WW1?
Resolution in characteristic 0 using weighted blowing up. - Abramovich - Workshop 2 - CEB T2 2019
Dan Abramovich (Brown University) / 28.06.2019 Resolution in characteristic 0 using weighted blowing up. Given a variety, one wants to blow up the worst singular locus, show that it gets better, and iterate until the singularities are resolved. Examples such as the whitney umbrella show
From playlist 2019 - T2 - Reinventing rational points
Khrushchev Denounces "Dictator" Stalin (1956)
Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin & Malenkov visits Britain. CU. Joseph (Josif) Visarionovich Stalin. GV. Scene from Russian October Revolution (taken from Eisenstein's film October), & TV. CU. Russian (Soviet) soldiers climbing up stairs. SV. Still shot
From playlist THE COLD WAR