Abstract: In this talk I will discuss some suitable definable Bohr compactification of an ultraproduct of finite groups, and relate it to ultra quasirandom groups.
Abstract: Paul Larson proved that under Martin's axiom and large continuum there are no Laver ideals over aleph_1. He asked about weakly Laver ideals under some forcing axiom.
We shall address two issues:
1. Under Martin's axiom and the continuum is above aleph_2, there are no weakly Laver ideals over aleph_1..
2. Under Baumgartner's axiom, the parallel of Larson's theorem holds for ideals over aleph_2.
Zilber's trichotomy conjecture, in modern formulation, distinguishes three flavours of geometries of strongly minimal sets --- disintegrated/trivial, modular, and the geometry of an ACF. Each of these three flavours has a classic ``template'' --- a set with no structure, a projective space over a prime field, and an algebraically closed field, respectively. The class of ab initio constructions with which Hrushovski refuted the conjecture features a new flavour of geometries --- non-modular, yet prohibiting any algebraic structure.
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).
We will present briefly the "multiverse view" of set theory, advocated by Hamkins, that there are a multitude of set-theoretic universes, and not one background universe, and his proposed "Multiverse Axioms". We will then move on to present the main result of Gitman and Hamkins in their paper "A natural model of the multiverse axioms" - that the countable computably saturated models of ZFC form a "toy model" of the multiverse axioms.
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.
In an attempt to classify the geometries arising in strongly minimal sets, Zil'ber conjectured them to split into three different types: Trivial geometries, vector space-like geometries and field-like geometries. Soon after, Hrushovski refuted this conjecture while introducing a new construction method, which has been modified and used a lot ever since.
First speaker: Daniel kalmanovich, HU
Title: On the face numbers of cubical polytopes
Abstract:
Understanding the possible face numbers of polytopes, and of subfamilies of interest, is a fundamental question.
The celebrated g-theorem, conjectured by McMullen in 1971 and proved by Stanley (necessity) and by Billera and Lee (sufficiency) in 1980-81, characterizes the f-vectors of simplicial polytopes.
Expansivness is a fundamental property of dynamical systems.
It is sometimes viewed as an indication to chaos.
However, expansiveness also sets limitations on the complexity of a system.
Ma\~{n}'{e} proved in the 1970’s that a compact metric space that
admits an expansive homeomorphism is finite dimensional.
In this talk we will discuss a recent extension of Ma\~{n}'{e}’s
theorem for actions generated by multiple homeomorphisms,
based on joint work with Masaki Tsukamoto. This extension relies on a
