Monday, September 15, 2008

Some New Lower Bounds on actual VDW numbers

Tamara Giorgadze, a ninth grade student at McLean High School (in Virginia) has obtained some NEW lower bounds on some VDW numbers: See this website

This is excellent work! I was not her mentor, Hunter Monroe was. (He has done some work in Complexity on whether there are natural problems with speedup, though his day job is as an Economist.)

4 comments:

  1. Do you have an rss feed for your blog?

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  2. Do the number of high school students recently working on VDW numbers exceed the number of faculty currently working on VDW numbers?

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  3. Yes, we have feeds for posts, podcasts, comments (all and each
    individual post). The main rss feed is http://weblog.fortnow.com/rss.xml. It's all in the left column of our blog.

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  4. For those who are interested, the SAT solving group at TU Delft has set up a webpage (under construction) with further improvements to the known lower bounds:
    http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/sat/waerden.php

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