MIDWEST MODEL THEORY at UIC

April 6-7 2002

Tentative Schedule

Abstracts are available in .dvi or .pdf formats All talks will be in room 636 of SEO the Science and Engineering Office Building.

Friday April 5
- 3:00 pm, UIC MSCS Colloquium, Simon Thomas (Rutgers University), Superrigidity and the classification problem for the torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank
Saturday April 6
- 9:00-10:00 coffee (room 636 SEO)
- 10:00-11:00 Chris Laskowski (Maryland), Elementary diagrams of trivial, strongly minimal models are model complete
- 11:10-12:10 Anand Pillay (Urbana), p-jets of varieties over differential and difference fields
- 1:30-2:30 Denis Hirschfeld (U. Chicago), Computable Presentations and Structure
- 2:40-3:40 Simon Thomas (Rutgers), The classification problem for p-local torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank
- 3:40-4:00 coffee (room 300 SEO)
- 4:00-5:00 Jessica Young (MIT), On Martin's Conjecture
- 8:00-??? Party hosted by John and Sharon Baldwin
Sunday April 7
- 9:00-9:30 coffee (room 636 SEO)
- 9:30-10:30 Hans Schoutens (Ohio State), Lefschetz categories, the Ax-Kochen-Ershov Principle and transfer from prime to mixed characteristic.
- 10:40-11:40 Yevgeniy Vasilyev (Urbana), Generic pairs and geometry of SU-rank 1 structures
- 11:50-12:50 Ben-Yaacov (Paris/Urbana), Generic pairs of simple cats produce simple kittens

Hotel Information

We have arranged a block of rooms at the Quality Inn Downtown

Address: One South Halsted Street, Chicago IL 60661

phone: 312-829-5000
The Group Code for the reservation is: LM0405

You need to reserve these rooms by March 22 to guarantee the rate (an unprepossessing $89 per night + tax). At the time specify whether you want one king size or two double beds (same price). Have a credit card ready when making your reservation and mention the Midwest Model Theory Seminar. The hotel is about 1/2 mile straight up Halsted Street from the University. They provide parking for $13/night but on-street parking block or so away is likely to be available.

Other Information

Driving Directions to UIC
Campus Map, including parking lots
The UIC Campus is easily accessible by CTA train from O'Hare. Just take the train to the Halsted/UIC exit.

Further information will be posted soon.

Last Updated 3/4/02 9:13