Recent seminar announcements- Heike Mildenberger: The filter dichotomy and the semifilter trichotomy Bonn Logic Seminar
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- 9/Apr/2013: James Cummings on Radin forcing Carnegie Mellon Logic Seminar
- This Week in Logic at CUNY New York Logic Seminars
- Marion Scheepers: Embedding partial orders Boise Set Theory Seminar
- 15/Apr/2013: Simon Thomas, Roman Kossak Rutgers Logic Seminar
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- Daniel Soukup: Partitioning bases of topological spaces Toronto Set Theory Seminar
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Menachem Magidor (born 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory.
He received his Ph.D. in 1973 from the Hebrew University.
He served as president of the Hebrew University from 1997 to 2009.
Recent awards: Humboldt Prize.
Recent and upcoming talks by Menachem Magidor
Chicago Logic Day, April 24, 2013
Logic Day, April 24, 2013
On Wednesday April 24th, we will hold a Logic Day at the University of Chicago. Proposed schedule:
11 a.m. P. Koellner, “More on reflection principles“
Noon-1:30pm: Lunch ordered in
kindly RSVP if you’d like us to provide lunch for you
1:30 p.m. continue reading…
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Tagged Alex Razborov, John Baldwin, Menachem Magidor, Peter Koellner
Mostowski 100, October 11-13, 2013
The Andrzej Mostowski Centenary Conference will take place at the University of Warsaw on 11-13 October 2013. Here is the list of speakers.
Heritage track
Mikołaj Bojańczyk, University of Warsaw,
Harvey Friedman, State University of Ohio,
Thomas Jech, Pennsylvania State University and Czech Academy of Sciences,
Menachem Magidor, Hebrew University,
Yiannis Moschovakis, UCLA,
Jouko Väänänen, University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam,
Jan Woleński, Jagiellonian University,
Arctic Set Theory Workshop, February 1-5, 2013
This international workshop on the latest developments in set theory, including set theoretic model theory and constructive set theory, will be held in the Kilpisjärvi Research Center of the University of Helsinki, during February 1-5, 2013. continue reading…
New York Graduate Student Logic Conference, April 18-19, 2013
We are pleased to announce the fourth New York Graduate Student Logic Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, April 18-19, 2013, at the CUNY Graduate Center located in midtown Manhattan. continue reading…
4th European Set Theory Conference, July 15 – 18, 2013
The 4th European Set Theory Conference will be held in
Mon St Benet, near Barcelona, on 15-18 July 2013.
Mostowski lecture:
Adam Krawczyk (Warsaw): Andrzej Mostowski Centenary.
Hausdorff Medal lecture:
To be announced. continue reading…
Menachem Magidor: Some Reflections On the Continuum Hypothesis
Departmental colloquia at York University, 5/Nov/2012
3:30-4:30 pm, with refreshments at 3pm
Speaker: Menachem Magidor (HUJI)
Title: Some Reflections On the Continuum Hypothesis
Abstract: The Continuum Problem is whether there is a set of reals whose cardinality is strictly between the cardinality of the integers and the reals. continue reading…
31/Aug/2012. Menacham Magidor: On $\omega_1$-strongly compact cardinals
13:30–15:00
Fields institute, Room 210
Speaker: Menachem Magidor (HUJI)
Title: On $\omega_1$-strongly compact cardinals continue reading…
Descriptive Set Theory and Model Theory, Dec 27, 2012 – Jan 4, 2013
The aim of this meeting is to present the state of art in Descriptive Set Theory and Model Theory. In Descriptive Set Theory, the main focus will be on its interaction with Ergodic Theory and Functional Analysis. continue reading…
Logic Colloquium 2012, July 12 – 18 2012
The 2012 ASL European Summer Meeting will take place 12th-18th July 2012 (University of Manchester).
Tutorials
Ilijas Farah: Elliott’s program and descriptive set theory (abstract)
Antonio Montalbán: Reverse mathematics (abstract)
Boris Zilber: Pseudo-analytic structures: model theory and algebraic geometry (abstract)
Plenary Lectures
Jeremy Avigad: Computability and convergence (abstract)
Andreas R. continue reading…
Menachem Magidor: PFA and the supercompact
We resume our seminar this week, August 12, at 10.
Menachem will lecture on a result of Viale and Weiss
(that if you obtain PFA in a standard way starting with an inaccessible cardinal kappa, then this kappa must be a supercompact). continue reading…