MEETINGS:

• Organizer: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• Seminar meets:
  • Note: NO MEETING Monday 4/10!
  • First Meeting:
    Monday, 4/17, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in MS 5217. Flynn Heiss will speak about countable models
  • Second Meeting:
    Monday, 4/24, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in MS 5217. Flynn Heiss will continue. Then I will speak about quantifier elimination and related topics.
  • Third Meeting:
    Monday, 5/1, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in MS 5217. Dima Sinapova will talk about strongly minimal sets.
  • Note: NO MEETING Monday 5/8! Inessa Epstein will speak on Friday at 4:00 pm on Morley Rank and totally transcendental theories.
  • Fifth Meeting:
    Monday, 5/15, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in MS 5217. Clinton Conley will speak about independence in omega-stable theories.
  • Note: NO MEETING Monday 5/22!
  • Sixth Meeting:
    Monday, 6/5, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm in MS 5217. Alexander will prove one direction of Morley's Theorem.
  • Seventh Meeting:
    Tuesday, 6/13, 11:00 pm - 12:30 pm in MS 5217. Ioannis will prove the other direction.

GENERAL INFO:

• This is a participating seminar. The main topic is omega-stability and uncountable categoricity. We will start by covering the following topics:
  • Strongly minimal theories
  • Morley's theorem
  • Baldwin-Lachlan theorem
  • Independence in omega-stable theories
  • omega-stable groups, etc