# Recent and upcoming talks by Paul McKenney

## Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Nashville, May 5–11, 2017

Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras May 5 – May 11, 2017 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA http://my.vanderbilt.edu/ncgoa17 The Fifteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras will take place at Vanderbilt University from May 5 to May 11, 2017, under the direction of Jesse Peterson. continue reading…

## BEST 2016 slides

The 23rd BEST conference was held June 15–16 in San Diego, CA. Shehzad Ahmed – Jonsson cardinals and pcf theory Liljana Babinkostova – A weakening of the closure operator Kyle Beserra – On the conjugacy problem for automorphisms of countable regular trees Erin Carmody – Killing them softly William Chan – Every analytic equivalence relation with all Borel classes is Borel somewhere John Clemens – Relative primeness of equivalence relations Paul Corazza – The axiom of infinity, quantum field theory, and large cardinals Cody Dance – Indiscernibles for $L[T_2,x]$ Natasha Dobrinen – Ramsey spaces coding universal triangle-free graphs and applications to Ramsey degrees Paul Ellis – A Borel amalgamation property Monroe Eskew – Rigid ideals Daniel Hathaway – Disjoint Borel functions Jared Holshouser – Partition properties for non-ordinal sets under the axiom of determinacy Paul McKenney – Automorphisms of \$\mathcal P(\lambda)/\mathcal I_\kappa Kaethe Minden – Subcomplete forcing and trees Daniel Soukup – Orientations of graphs with uncountable chromatic number Simon Thomas – The isomorphism and bi-embeddability relations for finitely generated groups Douglas Ulrich – A new notion of cardinality for countable first order theories Kameryn Williams – Minimal models of Kelley-Morse set theory Martin Zeman – Master conditions from huge embeddings continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Automorphisms of P(ω1)/finite

Mathematical logic seminar – January 20, 2015 Time:     12:30 – 13:30 Room:     Wean Hall 8201 Speaker: Paul McKenney Title:     Automorphisms of P(ω1)/finite Abstract: I will discuss some recent work with Paul Larson on automorphisms of the Boolean algebra P(ω1)/finite and related structures, along with some connections to the question of whether it is consistent with ZFC that P(ω)/finite is isomorphic to P(ω1)/finite. continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras III

Mathematical logic seminar – March 19 2013 Time:     12:00 – 13:20 Room:     Wean Hall 7201 Speaker:         Paul McKenney Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Title:     Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras III Abstract:     In the final talk of this series, I will recap some of the discussion from last time and prove one of the results mentioned; namely I will prove that, assuming Todorcevic’s Axiom, every map determined by a coherent family of *-homomorphisms must have a Borel graph. continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras II

Mathematical logic seminar – March 5 2013 Time:     12:00 – 13:20 Room:     Wean Hall 7201 Speaker:         Paul McKenney Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Title:     Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras II Abstract:     In the second talk of this series, I will state a recent conjecture of Coskey and Farah which ties together the results mentioned in the previous lecture, i.e. continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras

Mathematical logic seminar – February 26 2013 Time:     12:00 – 13:20 Room:     Wean Hall 7201 Speaker:         Paul McKenney Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Title:     Forcing axioms and the rigidity of corona algebras Abstract: Certain independence phenomena in set-theoretic topology have recently been shown to extend to the setting of operator algebras. 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…

## Workshop on Applications to Operator Algebras, September 10-14, 2012

This workshop will take place at the Fields institute, as a part of the 2012 Thematic Program on Forcing and its Applications. Organizing Committee: Ilijas Farah Andrew Toms Alexander S. Kechris continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Automorphisms of Calkin Algebras

Friday, March 9, 2012, from 1:30 to 3pm Fields Institute, Room 210 Speaker: Paul McKenney (CMU) Title: Automorphisms of Calkin Algebras continue reading…

## Paul McKenney: Automorphisms of Calkin Algebras

Mathematical logic seminar – Feb 28, 2012 Time: 12:00 – 13:20 Room: Wean Hall 7201 Speaker:     Paul McKenney Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Title: Automorphisms of Calkin Algebras Abstract: I will discuss what is known about automorphisms of the Calkin Algebra over a separable Hilbert space, and give some recent results about related quotient algebras in the nonseparable case. continue reading…