Wednesday, May 21 - Sunday, May 25

Program of the Conference

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Wednesday (05/21)
Thursday (05/22)
Friday (05/23)
Saturday (05/24)
Sunday (05/25)
9:30 -- 9:40
Opening remarks





9:30 -- 10:30
(9:40 -- 10:40)
Bjorn Poonen

University of California, Berkeley
Hilbert's Tenth Problem and number-theoretic generalizations
Edward W. Odell
University of Texas at Austin
Ramsey theory and Banach spaces
Nigel Cutland
University of Hull
Stochastic fluid mechanics, attractors and nonstandard analysis
abstract (pdf)
Alexander Kechris
California Institute of Technology
Fraïssé limits, Ramsey theory, and topological dynamics of automorphism groups
abstract (pdf)


Zlil Sela
Hebrew University
Diophantine geometry over groups and the elementary theory of free and hyperbolic groups
abstract (pdf)
10:30 -- 11:00

Coffee


Coffee

Coffee

Coffee

Coffee
11:00 -- noon
Alexandru Buium
University of New Mexico
Orbit spaces in δ-geometry and analytic uniformization
abstract (pdf)


Alex Wilkie
University of Oxford
A proper o-minimal expansion of the additive group of rationals
abstract (pdf)
Katrin Tent
University of Würzburg
Asymptotic cones and questions of Margulis and Gromov
abstract (pdf)
Simon Thomas
Rutgers University
Superrigidity and the classification problem for the torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank
abstract (pdf)

Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
Difference Schemes
noon -- 2:00

Lunch Break


Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Lunch Break
2:00 -- 3:00
Ovidiu Costin
Rutgers University
Modeling functions: transseries and analyzability
abstract (pdf)


Andrei Gabrielov
Purdue University
Betti numbers of definable sets
abstract (pdf)
Gregory Cherlin
Rutgers University
Finite groups and groups of finite Morley rank
abstract (pdf)


Martin Ziegler
University of Freiburg
A question of Urysohn
abstract (pdf)


Boris Zilber
University of Oxford
Analytic Zariski structures
abstract (pdf)
3:00 -- 3:30

Coffee


Coffee

Coffee

Coffee

Coffee
3:30 -- 4:30
Pascal Koiran
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Vandermonde matrices in model theory, complexity theory and elementary geometry
abstract (pdf)
Anatoly Vershik
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg
Universality and Randomness: results and conjectures
abstract (pdf)


Francois Loeser
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Constructible motivic functions, integrals with parameters, and cell decomposition
abstract (pdf)
Thomas Scanlon
University of California, Berkeley
Trivial observations about the André-Oort conjecture abstract (pdf)


evening
Party for students at the apartment of Dominika Polkowska (check the information table for details)
PARTY at the house of Lou van den Dries (check the information table for details)






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