SMS scnews item created by Alexander Fish at Mon 1 Mar 2021 1222
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Auth: afish@pafish.pc (assumed)

Congrats to Giles Gardam on disproving Kaplansky’s unit conjecture!

Our former student Giles Gardam (did honours with Anne Thomas) just announced his new
exciting result that Kaplansky’s unit conjecture is false.  See the blog post by Gil
Kalai:
https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/to-cheer-you-up-in-difficult-times-21-giles-gardam-lecture-and-new-result-on-kaplanskys-conjectures/ 

Congratulations Giles!