Very Informal Gathering at UCLA, VIG 2008

There will be a very informal gathering of logicians at UCLA, from 2:00 PM on Friday, February 1, until 12:00, noon, on Sunday, February 3. This is the fourteenth in a series of occasional meetings, which started in 1975-76 and are characterized by few formal talks (in all areas of logic) and plenty of time for informal contact.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Room MS 6627

3:00 - 3:50 Jeremy Avigad, Unwinding Furstenberg's proof of Szemeredi's Theorem
4:00 - 4:50 Chris Pollett, The Surjective Weak Pigeonhole in Bounded Arithmetic
5:00 - 7:00 Get-together, Room MS 6620.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Room MS 5200

9:30 - 10:20 Christian Rosendal, Banach spaces without minimal subspaces
11:00 - 11:50 Deirdre Haskell, A survey of the model theory of valued fields
2:00 - 2:50 Justin Moore, Uncountable linear orders
3:30 - 5:30 Informal talks and problem session. (Contact Kechris at kechris@caltech.edu or during the meeting.)
8:00 - Party, information will be provided.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Room MS 5200

9:30 - 10:20 Marcus Kracht, Extensions of K4
11:00 - 11:50 Jan Reimann, Algorithmic theories of mutual information
End of meeting

The meeting is open to all and it is free, although the organizers will happily accept a voluntary, $20 contribution by non-student participants, to help cover the non-chargeable entertainment costs.

Student Travel Awards : The Logic Center will make modest travel awards to graduate students who attend the meeting. Please send an email message with a CV or a brief description of your studies, and ask your Thesis Adviser to also send a recommendation to ynm@math.ucla.edu.

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