Category Archives: Conferences

50 Years of Set Theory in Toronto, Fields institute, May 13-17, 2019

50 Years of Set Theory in Toronto, May 13-17, 2019

This conference will celebrate  the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Set Theory Seminar. Its purpose is to introduce and/or survey contemporary work in the areas currently investigated by Seminar members. The conference will  take place at the Fields Institute in Toronto, and is supported by the Fields, NSF, and NSERC. Requests to be placed on the conference mailing list and other correspondence may  be directed to set-theory@Fields.utoronto.ca. Those who have already  written to the lead organizer asking to be placed on the mailing list need not write  again. The  conference  website is  http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/18-19/set-theory. As planning proceeds, more information will  be posted there.

The invited speakers include L. Aurichi, B. Braga, C. Brech, N. Dobrinen, A. Dow, C. Eagle, V. Fischer, O. Guzman, M. Hrusak, I. Juhasz, P. Koszmider, W. Kubis, P. Larson, M. Magidor, J. Moore, Y. Peng, A. Rinot, D. Soukup, and A. Tornquist. Some others are not yet confirmed.

There will be poster sessions for contributed papers. Please send abstracts of proposed talks to set-theory@fields.utoronto.ca.

The registration fee is $100 Canadian (approximately$75 U.S.). Details as to how to pay will be announced later.

There will be a separate event for graduates of the seminar on May 12th.

Some support is available for graduate students and postdocs outside Toronto, especially U.S.-based ones. Apply by sending a c.v. to the above address, and by asking your supervisor to send us a recommendation letter. Graduate students and postdocs at York University and the University of Toronto can ask their supervisors to pay their registration fees from NSERC operating grants.

The local organizing committee consists of Franklin D. Tall (lead organizer), Ilijas Farah, Juris Steprans, Paul Szeptycki, Stevo Todorcevic, and William Weiss. The conference secretary is Mateusz Olechnowicz.

Information about accommodations, transportation, etc. can be found on the Fields Institute. website: www.fields.utoronto.ca.

Those needing Canadian visas should apply well in advance. We can supply letters of invitation upon request.

MAMLS Conference, Rutgers, October 27-28, 2018

Visit the Go to the MAMLS 2018 web site.

Schedule

Day 1. Saturday October 27.
All Saturday talks will take place Scott Hall – Room 103.
9:00am–10am Saharon Shelah (Rutgers)
10:30am–11:30am Natasha Dobrinen (Denver)
11:45am–12:45pm Gabriel Goldberg (Harvard)
2:30pm–3:30pm William Chan (North Texas)
4:00pm-5:00pm Justin Moore (Cornell)

Day 2. Sunday October 28.
All Sunday talks will take place at Scott Hall – Room 103
9:30am–10:30am Nam Trang (North Texas)
11:00am–12 am Itay Neeman(UCLA)

While graduate students, young researchers, female mathematicians and members of under-represented groups are particularly encouraged to apply for travel support, it should be stressed that any participants without their own sources of funding are eligible to apply. Requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis within the limits of the budget. Please send an email to Russell.Miller @ qc.cuny.edu

The conference will be supported by the NSF.

Special session on Large cardinals and combinatorial set theory, Ann Arbor, October 20-21, 2018

Paul Larson and Andrés E Caicedo are co-organizing a special session at the Fall Central Sectional Meeting 2018 in Ann Arbor, on Large cardinals and combinatorial set theory. The session will take place Saturday October 20 and Sunday October 21.

Very Informal European Gathering, Bristol (England), 8-9 Jun 2018

The VIEG – 2018 will be held on Friday-Saturday June 8-9th 2018 at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Invited participants include:

• David Aspero (UEA)
• Raffaela Cutolo (Naples)
• Mirna Dzamonja (UEA)
• Martin Goldstern (TU Vienna)
• Asaf Karagila (UEA)
• Benedikt Löwe (Hamburg, ILLC Amsterdam)
• Charles Morgan (Bristol)

PhDs in Logic, Prague, May 2018

Dear all,

The set theory section of the PhDs in Logic meeting is scheduled for the
morning of Wednesday May 2nd. The seminar next Wednesday is cancelled.
The PhDs in Logic meeting meeting takes place in the Institute of
Philosophy CAS, Jilska 1, Prague 1. The programme is available here:
https://logic.ff.cuni.cz/research/conferences/phd-logic/program.html

Best,
David

Set-Theoretic Topology and Topological Algebra

International Conference Set-Theoretic Topology and Topological Algebra in honor of professor Alexander Arhangelskii on his 80-th birthday

Professor Alexander Vladimirovich Arhangelskii more than forty-five years works at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, of which over thirty years in the position of professor. A.V. Arhangelskii is a pupil of Academician P.S. Alexandroff, who, together with P.S. Uryson founded the Russian (Soviet) topological school. And to this day the Russian topological school is one of the best in the world. His scientific results became classical and laid the foundation for such scientific areas as topological algebra, spaces of continuous functions, topological homogeneity. He wrote more than 330 works, more than fifty times A.V. Arhangelskii was an invited speaker at international conferences and symposiums. Monographs of A.V. Arhangel’skii “Topological function spaces”, “Cantor set theory”, “Finite-dimensional vector spaces”, “Topological groups and related structures” (joint with M.G. Tkachenko) and joint with V.I. Ponomarev textbook “Fundamentals of General Topology in Problems and Exercises” became reference books for many mathematicians and translated into foreign languages. He established in Russia an authoritative scientific school: among the students of A.V. Arhangelskii 37 candidates and doctors of science, among them more than 20 professors.

Topics include:
1. Set-Theoretic Topology
2. Mappings and Spaces
3. Topological groups
4. Topological function spaces

Organizers

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Механико-математический факультет

Programme Committee:

V.A. Sadovnichy (chairman) – Academician, rector of Moscow Lomonosov State University S.P. Gul’ko – Head of the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Theory of Functions of Tomsk State University J. van Mill – professor University of Amsterdam (Nerthelands) M.G. Tkachenko – professor Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico) V.V. Uspenskii – professor  Ohio University (USA) V.V. Filippov – professor Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University M.M. Choban – Academician AN Moldova,  Head of the Department of Algebra, Geometry and Topology of Tiraspol State University

Organizing Committee:

V.N. Chubarikov (co-chairman) – Acting Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University Yu.V. Sadovnichy (co-chairman) – Head of the Department of General Topology and Geometry of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University D.P. Baturov – associate professor of Orel State University A.N. Karpov – associate professor of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University K.L. Kozlov – professor of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University O.I. Pavlov – associate professor of RUDN University E.A. Reznichenko – associate professor of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University O.V. Sipacheva – principal researcher of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University A.N. Yakivchik – associate professor of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow Lomonosov State University I.V. Yaschenko – principal of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence in the City of Moscow

Cost of participation

The conference fee is 1000 roubles.

Appalachian Set Theory workshop: Dilip Raghavan, June 2, 2018

Appalachian set theory

Dilip Raghavan : “Boolean ultrapowers and iterated forcing”

Description

In joint work with Saharon Shelah, we develop a new method for proving consistency results on cardinal invariants, particularly results involving the invariant . This method can be used with a wide range of forcing notions, including arbitrary ccc posets. However the method always requires a supercompact cardinal κ in the ground model and produces forcing extensions in which the desired invariants sit above κ. Another feature of our method is that it generalizes to cardinal invariants above ω, and can be used to give uniform consistency proofs that work at any regular cardinal. It can also be used to treat situations where three cardinal invariants must be separated. In particular, our technique solves various long standing open problems about cardinal invariants at uncountable regular cardinals. All the results use Boolean ultrapowers, studied by Keisler and other model theorists in the 1960s. I will aim to give a fairly self contained introduction to this method and to some to its applications to the theory of cardinal invariants.

Local information

The nearest airport is Pittsburgh International Airport. The Supershuttle shared van service is cheaper but slower than taking a taxi from the airport.

Lodging

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LODGING: A block of rooms earmarked for attendees has been set aside at a local hotel (the Shadyside Inn). If we are covering your lodging expenses then we will need to make a reservation for you. Please don’t make your own reservation if we have promised you support, this will cause confusion and may make it impossible for us to reimburse you.

Participant travel support

Funds provided by the National Science Foundation will be used to reimburse some participant transportation and lodging expenses. Priority will be given to students and faculty who do not hold federal research grants. Please request such funds as far in advance of the meeting as possible by sending the following information to the email address appalachiansettheory@gmail.com

• Your nationality and visa status
• Faculty: please tell us whether you hold a federal research grant

Set theory today: A conference in honor of Georg Cantor

Confirmed speakers:

• Omer Ben Neria, UCLA.
• Jörg Brendle, Kobe University.
• David Chodounský, Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
• James Cummings, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Oswaldo Guzmán, York University.
• Radek Honzik, Charles University in Prague.
• Yurii Khomskii, University of Hamburg.
• Paul Larson, Miami University.
• Diego Mejía, Shizuoka University.
• Julien Melleray, University of Lyon.
• Heike Mildenberger, University of Freiburg.
• Luca Motto Ros, University of Torino.
• Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Grigor Sargsyan, Rutgers University.
• Asger Törnquist, University of Copenhagen.
• Todor Tsankov, University of Paris Diderot.
• Matteo Viale, University of Torino.
• Jindřich Zapletal, University of Florida.

For a list of confirmed participants please see

Organizing/scientific committee

• Vera Fischer
• Sy-David Friedman
• Benjamin Miller

Local organizing committee

• Diana Carolina Montoya
• Daniel Soukup

Takeuti Memorial Symposium, Kobe, September 18 – 20, 2018

AML 2018 – Takeuti Memorial Symposium

Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Logic 2018

Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Gaisi Takeuti (1926-2017)

September 18 (Tue) – 20 (Thu), 2018

Kobe, Japan

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the international conference

SAML 2018 / Takeuti Memorial Symposium
Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Logic 2018
Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Gaisi Takeuti (1926-2017)

http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~mkikuchi/saml2018/

This will take place from September 18th to 20th, 2018,
at the Takigawa Memorial Hall, Rokkodai Campus, Kobe University, in Japan.

Program comittee:
Toshiyasu Arai (Chiba)
Makoto Kikuchi (Kobe)
Satoru Kuroda (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University)
Teruyuki Yorioka (Shizuoka)

Confirmed invited speakers:
Samuel R. Buss (San Diego)
Wilfried Sieg (CMU)
Mariko Yasugi (Kyoto)
(Other invited speakers will be announced later.)

Scope:
Mathematical logic and related areas including (but not restricted to)
proof theory, set theory, computability theory, model theory, philosophical
logic, theoretical computer science, philosophy of mathematics.

Contributed talks:
Each contributed talk is planned to be approx. 30 min
(this may change according to the number of talks).

Proceedings Volume:
The proceedings volume of selected and revised papers based on the talks
will be published after the symposium.

Important Dates (tentative):
Deadline of abstracts for contributed talks: July 31, 2018
Symposium: September 18-20, 2018
Deadline of full papers for the proceedings volume: March, 2019
Publication of the proceedings volume: December 2019

Parties:
The reception will be held on September 18th evening at Takigawa Memorial
Hall
(conference venue). It will cost 4,000JPY (tentative).
The banquet (Toshiyasu Arai 60th birthday celebration) will be held on
September 19th evening.
It will cost 12,000JPY (tentative). The place will be announced later.

Registration:
Send an e-mail to Teruyuki Yorioka yorioka@shizuoka.ac.jp with subject “SAML2018”, and please provide the following information.
The deadline of the registration is July 31st, 2018.

• Name:
• Affiliation:
• E-mail:
• Contributed talk: (yes/no) if yes, please attach title and abstract (about5 to 10 lines)
• Parties: Reception (yes/no), Banquet (yes/no)

Makoto Kikuchi mkikuchi@kobe-u.ac.jp
Teruyuki Yorioka yorioka@shizuoka.ac.jp

Generalised Baire Spaces, Amsterdam, August 22-24, 2018

Generalised Baire Spaces

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Master Class: 22 August 2018 / Colloquium: 23–24 August 2018

Organisers. Lorenzo Galeotti, Benedikt Löwe, Philipp Lücke.
Descriptive set theory and set theory of the reals traditional deal with well-known and well-studied topological spaces such as the real numbers, Cantor space, and Baire space. In recent years, set theorists are increasingly interested in the uncountable analogues 2κ of the Cantor space (generalised Cantor space) and κκ of the Baire space (generalised Baire space) for uncountable cardinals κ.

While many concepts from the classical setting can be transferred to generalised Baire space and some classical results remain true at uncountable cardinals, in general the rich combinatorial nature of uncountable cardinals causes the theory of the corresponding spaces to differ significantly e.g., notions which are equivalent in the classical setting can lead to different notions in the generalised theory. Phenomena like this shed light on structures and properties otherwise hidden in the classical setting.

The study of generalised Baire spaces has developed into a research area in its own right with a rich overarching theory, internally motivated open questions (cf. Khomskii, Laguzzi, Löwe, Sharankou 2016) and an active research community, combining methods and techniques from several branches of set theory like uncountable combinatorics, forcing, large cardinals, inner models and classical descriptive set theory and also involves techniques from classical model theory. The community met first at the Amsterdam Set Theory Workshop 2014 in November 2014, then at a satellite workshop to the German mathematics congress in Hamburg in September 2015, and finally at a workshop at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn in September 2016. This Academy Colloquium is a reunion of the community after a hiatus of two years.

The Colloquium will be preceded by an associated KNAW Master Class for postgraduate students in order to prepare them for the talks at the Colloquium. The KNAW Master Class will take place on 22 August 2018.

Speakers: