MEETINGS:

• Instructor: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• This class is a Monday-Wednesday class, meeting 12:30 - 13:50.
• Location:
  • M 12:30P - 1:50P MS 3915G
  • W 12:30P - 1:50P MS 6229

GENERAL INFO:

This is a course on basic stability theory in model theory. We will start with reviewing basic model theory; the suggested text for this is "Model Theory: The Introduction" by David Marker. Then we will switch to stability; there are several texts, none of them perfect. I suggest "Essential Stability Theory" by Steven Buechler. Other options are "Introduction to Stability Theory" and "Geometric Stability Theory" by Anand Pillay, and, of course, "Classification Theory" by Saharon Shelah, which is unfortunately out of print. The last two books are excellent references (much better than the first two), but much harder to study from.