AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Model Theory and Its Applications, I
Room 121, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
Philip H. Scowcroft, Wesleyan University pscowcroft@wesleyan.edu
Carol S. Wood, Wesleyan University cwood@wesleyan.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On model theory for classes of finite structures.
  Charles Steinhorn*, Vassar College
  (1042-03-225)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Decreasing types in o-minimal theories.
  Janak Daniel Ramakrishnan*, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I
  (1042-03-193)
- 9:00 a.m.
  O-minimal fields with standard part map.
  Jana Maříková*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
  (1042-03-152)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characteristic sequences in unstable theories.
  Maryanthe Malliaris*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1042-03-142)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $\omega$-models of Finite Set Theory.
  James H. Schmerl*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (1042-03-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Elementary pairs of models of PA.
  Roman Kossak*, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
  (1042-03-51)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Model Theory and Its Applications, II
Room 121, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
Philip H. Scowcroft, Wesleyan University pscowcroft@wesleyan.edu
Carol S. Wood, Wesleyan University cwood@wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Borel equivalence relations.
  Samuel Coskey*, City University of New York
  (1042-03-94)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Theories that exhibit $SOP_3$ but not $SOP_4$.
  Rehana Patel*, Harvard University
  (1042-03-235)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Consistent amalgamation in dependent rosy theories.
  Clifton F. Ealy*, Western Illinois University
  (1042-03-242)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Small groups of odd type.
  Adrien Deloro*, Rutgers University, NJ
  Eric Jaligot, CNRS, Lyon 1
  (1042-03-33)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A generation theorem for groups of finite Morley rank.
  Jeffrey Burdges*, Rutgers University
  Gregory Cherlin, Rutgers University
  (1042-03-159)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Conjugacy Theorems and Genericity Theorems in Groups of finite Morley rank (Nouvelle Cuisine).
  Gregory Cherlin*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  (1042-03-80)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Model Theory and Its Applications, III
Room 121, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
Philip H. Scowcroft, Wesleyan University pscowcroft@wesleyan.edu
Carol S. Wood, Wesleyan University cwood@wesleyan.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Model theory of probability spaces with an automorphism.
  C. Ward Henson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1042-03-93)
- 8:30 a.m.
  More decidable theories of non-projectable $\mathit{l}$-groups.
  Brian Wynne*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  (1042-03-88)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric ganzstellensaetze in theories of valued fields.
  Deirdre Haskell*, McMaster University
  Yoav Yaffe, Hebrew University
  (1042-03-87)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Definability in characteristic $0$ henselian valued fields via the leading terms.
  Joseph Flenner*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1042-03-171)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantifier elimination in valued Ore modules.
  Luc Bélair*, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  Françoise Point, FNRS - Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgique.
  (1042-03-20)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A differential Chevalley theorem.
  Eric Rosen*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1042-03-133)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Model Theory and Its Applications, IV
Room 121, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
Philip H. Scowcroft, Wesleyan University pscowcroft@wesleyan.edu
Carol S. Wood, Wesleyan University cwood@wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some tractable trivial minimal sets in ACFA.
  Alice Medvedev*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley
  (1042-03-178)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tannakian Categories and Valuation Rings.
  Meghan Anderson*, UC Berkeley
  (1042-03-218)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Definable subcategories of modules.
  Philipp Rothmaler*, The City University of New York
  (1042-16-48)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Schemic Grothendieck rings.
  Hans Schoutens*, City University of New York
  (1042-14-62)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Remarks on Zilber's pseudoexponentiation.
  David Marker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1042-03-150)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Stable, $\aleph_0$-categorical Algebraic Structures.
  Paul Baginski*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1042-03-239)

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