2018 Mar 21

# Logic Seminar - Jorge Julián Prieto Jara - "Differentially closed fields and quasiminimality"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
Zilber introduced quasi-minimal classes to generalize the model theory of pseudo exponential fields. They are equipped with a pregeometry operator and satisfy interesting properties such as having only countable or co-countable definable sets. Differentially closed fields of characteristic 0, rich examples of a \omega-stable structures, are good candidates to be quasiminimal. The difficulty is that a differential equation may have uncountably many solutions, and thus violate the countable closure requirement of quasiminimal structures.
2016 Dec 27

# Special logic seminar - Itaï BEN YAACOV, "Baby version of the asymptotic volume estimate"

10:00am to 12:00pm

## Location:

Shprinzak 102
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.
2018 Jun 20

# Logic Seminar - Daniel Palacin - "On definable Bohr compactifications of ultraproducts of finite groups"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
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.
2017 Apr 19

# Logic seminar- Shimon Garti, "Forcing axioms and saturated ideals"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
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.
2017 Nov 08

# Logic Seminar- Itai Ben Yaacov - "Reconstruction for non-aleph0-categorical theories?"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Math 209
It is a familiar fact (sometimes attributed to Ahlbrandt-Ziegler, though it is possibly older) that two aleph0-categorical theories are bi-interpretable if and only if their countable models have isomorphic topological isomorphism groups. Conversely, groups arising in this manner can be given an abstract characterisation, and a countable model of the theory (up to bi-interpretation, of course) can be reconstructed.
2018 Jan 24

# Logic Seminar - Vadim Kulikov - Borel Reducibility in Generalised Descriptive Set Theory"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
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).
2018 Jun 06

# Logic Seminar - Gabriel Conant - "Local NIP group theory and pseudofinite groups"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
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.
2017 May 24

# Logic seminar - Katrin Tent, "Ample geometries of finite Morley rank"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Abstract: I will explain the model theoretic notion of ampleness and present the geometric context of recent constructions.
2017 Jul 26

# Logic seminar - Andrés Villaveces, "Around non-elementary dependence"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Dependent theories have now a very solid and well-established collection of results and applications. Beyond first order, the development of "dependency" has been rather scarce so far. In addition to the results due to Kaplan, Lavi and Shelah (dependent diagrams and the generic pair conjecture), I will speak on a few lines of current research around the extraction of indiscernibles for dependent diagrams and on various forms on dependence for abstract elementary classes. This is joint work with Saharon Shelah.
2016 Dec 21

# Logic seminar - Ur Benari-Tish, "The modal logic of σ-centered forcing"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
The modal logic of σ-centered forcing Speaker: Ur Benari-Tish
2017 Dec 13

# Logic seminar - Omer Mermelstein - "Template structures for the class of Hrushovski ab initio geometries"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Math 209
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.
2018 May 16

# Logic Seminar - Shlomo Eshel - "The Strong Erdos-Hajnal property and the incidence relation"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
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|.
2017 May 29

# Logic seminar - Ur Yaar, "A Toy Multiverse"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Shprinzak 101
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.
2018 May 22

# Logic Seminar - Assaf Hasson - "Zilber's trichotomy for strongly minimal groups interpretable in o-minimal structures"

1:30pm to 3:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
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.
2017 Mar 08

# Logic seminar - Yair Hayur, "Radin Forcing and model without weak diamond"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
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.