​​Recap: Fields Medal & Graph Theory, Origins of Geometric Deep Learning

1. Fields Medal is often considered “the Nobel Prize in mathematics”. This year, International Mathematical Union (IMU) announced 4 awardees: brilliant mathematicians Hugo Duminil-Copin (Université de Genève and IHÉS), June Huh (Princeton), James Maynard (Oxford), and Maryna Viazovska (EPFL).

It is heartwarming for channel’s editors that the research of June Huh has direct connections to the graph theory - first, he proved the 40-years-unsolved Read’s conjecture on counting ways to color the graph using chromatic polynomials, studied those polynomials even deeper, and generalized the framework to matroids. Check this wonderful Quanta Magazine’s article dedicated to June and his research.

2. Just in case you had all your browser tabs closed and looked for something new to read - Michael Bronstein comes to help and publishes a new blog on the origins of Geometric Deep Learning. This is going to be a series of articles tracing the history of geometry from Greeks to GNNs.