I will review some recent results in the Borel reducibility on uncountable cardinals of the Helsinki logic group. Borel reducibility on the generalised Baire space \kappa^\kappa for uncountable \kappa is defined analogously to that for \kappa=\omega. One of the corollaries of this work is that under some mild cardinality assumptions on kappa, if T1 is classifiable and T2 is unstable or superstable with OTOP, then the ISOM(T1) is continuously reducible ISOM(T2) and ISOM(T2) is not Borel reducible to ISOM(T1).

Abstract: The set theoretic generalizations of algebras have been introduced in the 1960s to give a set theoretic interpretation of usual algebraic structures. The shift in perspective from algebra to set theory is that in set theory the focus is on the collection of possible algebras and sub-algebras on specific cardinals rather than on particular algebraic structures. The study of collections of algebras and sub-algebras has generated many well-known problems in combinatorial set theory (e.g., Chang’s conjecture and the existence of small singular Jonsson cardinals).

Much of the early development of model theoretic stability theory was motivated by stable groups, which include algebraic groups as guiding examples. Later work of Hrushovski and Pillay showed that many tools from stable group theory can be adapted to the local setting, where one works around a single stable formula rather than a stable theory. More recently, groups definable in NIP theories have been intensively studied, bringing back the importance of measures in model theory. On the other hand, local NIP group theory is not as well understood.

Abstract: I will explain the model theoretic notion of ampleness and present the geometric context of recent constructions.

This talk is about three published papers of mine that form my phd. In the first two chapters I focus in the model theory of real closed fields and in the third one I take one step back and investigate in greater genearility dependent theories. The results are the following: 1. Boundedness criterion for rational functions over generalized semi-algebraic sets in real closed fields. 2. Positivity criterion for polynomials over generalized semi-algebraic sets in real closed valued fields.

The modal logic of σ-centered forcing Speaker: Ur Benari-Tish

A special class among the countably infinite relational structures is the class of homogeneous structures. These are the structures where every finite partial isomorphism extends to a total automorphism. A countable set, the ordered rationals, and the random graph are all homogeneous.

In my master thesis we (Prof' Kobi Peterzil and I) investigated a problem in combinatorial geometry using tools from model theory. Following the article of Chernikov and Starchenko, "Regularity lemma for distal structures", we consider the Strong Erdos-Hajnal property for the incidence relation of points and lines in R^2. In particular, we compute a constant d such that for every finite sets of points P and lines L, with |P|,|L| > 2, there are a subsets P' of P and L' of L such that no point in P' lies on a line from L', and such that |P'|>d|P| , |L'|>d|L|.

We will take a close look at the first few steps of the construction of the Bristol model, which is a model intermediate to L[c], for a Cohen real c, satisfying V eq L(x) for all x.

Abstract: We will discuss the main steps in the proof of the theorem stating that if (G,+, ...) is a strongly minimal expansion of a group interpretable in an o-minimal expansion of a field, and \dim(G)=2 then G is a pure algebraic group. Joint work with P. Eleftheriou and Y. Peterzil.

Abstract: We continue with the topic of the previous week. We will define the Radin forcing, discuss (without proof) and its basic properties. We will give Woodin's proof for the consistency of the existence of strong inaccessible without diamond and show how to strengthen it to the consistency of strong inaccessible without weak diamond.

Sela proved that the theory of free groups is stable. It is thus natural to wonder what the independence relation looks like. Together with Sklinos, we worked out a complete characterization of forking independence in the standard model (over any set of parameters) in terms of an algebraic-geometric object called the JSJ decomposition, which encodes all the splittings of the group as an amalgamated product or an HNN extension relative to the parameter set. In the talk we will try to give an idea of the proof over some examples.

I'll show how the Vandermonde determinant identity allows us to estimate the volume of certain spaces of polynomials in one variable (or rather, of homogeneous polynomials in two variables), as the degree goes to infinity. I'll explain what this is good for in the context of globally valued fields, and, given time constraints, may give some indications on the approach for the "real inequality" in higher projective dimension.

We isolate the property of being a critical point, and prove some basic positive properties of them. We will also prove a lifting property that allows lifting elementary embedding to symmetric extensions, and outline a construction that shows that it is consistent that a successor of a critical cardinal is singular. This is a recent work with Yair Hayut.