St.Petersburg, June 1-7, 2004
Conference Program
14:00 - 14:10 Welcoming address by Anatoly Vershik
14:10 - 15:00 Yuri Ershov
Model Theory of multi valued fields
15:10 - 16:00 Greg Hjorth
An anti-Ramsey theorem
16:00 - 16:30 coffee
16:30 - 17:20 Andreas Blass
Powers of the Group of Integers
11:10 - 12:00 Boban Velickovic
Set theoretic aspects of the Control Measure Problem
12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:10 - 15:00 Yuri Ershov
Nice extensions and global class field theory
15:10 - 16:00 Juris Steprans
Geometric Cardinal Invariants, Maximal Functions and a Measure Theoretic Pigeonhole Principle
16:00 - 16:30 coffee
16:30 - 17:20 Joerg Brendle
Van Douwen's diagram and its relatives
11:10 - 12:00 Anatoly Vershik
Universality, Randomness, Complexity 1
12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:10 - 15:00 Jaroslav Nesetril
Ramsey classes and homogeneous structures
15:10 - 16:00 Vladimir Kanovei
Fully saturated extensions of standard universe
16:00 - 16:30 coffee
16:30 - 17:20 Mauro di Nasso
A purely algebraic characterization of the hyperreals of nonstandard analysis
11:10 - 12:00 Anatoly Vershik
Universality, Randomness, Complexity 2
12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 A BUS TAKES US TO STEKLOV INSTITUTE (Fontanka 27)
14:10 - 15:00 Peter Cameron
Isometries of Urysohn space
15:10 - 16:00 Nikolai Reshetikhin
The random geometry of the 6-vertex model
18:00 - BANQUETTE IN THE MARBLE HALL OF STEKLOV INSTITUTE
10:00 - 10:25 Petr Andreev An approximation of the hyperfinite world
10:30 - 10:55 Carlo Toffalori Minimalities and modules over group rings
11:15 - 11:40 Roman Wencel A generalization of o-minimality for expansions of Boolean algebras
11:45 - 12:10 Sergey Zyubin Conjugately dense subgroups of free products of groups
12:10 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:10 - 15:00 Evgeniy Gordon
A model-theoretic approach to approximation of topological algebraic systems by finite ones
15:10 - 16:00 Misha Gavrilovich
Aleph_1 categoricity of universal covering spaces of abelian varieties and Galois groups of their torsion points
16:00 - 16:30 coffee
16:30 - 17:20 Tapani Hyttinen
Local modularity in homogeneous structures
11:10 - 12:00 John Baldwin
0-1 laws for probability n^{-\alpha}
The main themes of the meeting include model theory, descriptive and combinatorial set theory, combinatorial group theory and the recently discovered connections of these areas with other areas of mathematics.
The meeting will consist of Invited Talks and Contributed Papers sessions. Also, there will be two tutorials given by A.Vershik (St.Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute) and Su Gao (North Texas).
We invite contributed talks. The deadline for sending abstracts of contributed talks is April 1, 2004. Abstracts of contributed talks have to be sent to the following electronic mail address: meeting@logic.pdmi.ras.ru
Invited speakers of the conference include:
J. Baldwin (Illinois, Chicago)
A. Blass (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
J. Brendle (Kobe)
P. Cameron (London, QMC)
Yu.Ershov (Novosibirsk)
M. Di Nasso (Pisa)
Su Gao (North Texas)
M. Gavrilovich (Oxford)
E. Gordon (Eastern Illinois)
G. Hjorth (UCLA)
T. Hyttinen (Helsinki)
V. Kanovei (Moscow)
J. Nesetril (Praha)
P. Schupp (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
O. Spinas (Kiel)
J. Steprans (Toronto)
S. Thomas
S. Todorcevic (Paris 7, Toronto, Belgrade)
V. Tolstykh (Kemerovo)
M. VanDieren (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
B. Velickovic (Paris 7)
A. Vershik (St.Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute)
Yi Zhang (GuangZhou)
The Program Committee of the conference consists of:
M. Arslanov (Kazan)
A. Blass (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
A. Bovykin (Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg)
Su Gao (North Texas)
E. Griffor (CAI, Detroit/Michigan, Ann Arbor)
A. Kechris (CalTech)
J. Steprans (Toronto)
A. Vershik, co-chair (Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg)
Yu.Ershov (Novosibirsk)
Yi Zhang, co-chair (GuangZhou)
B. Zilber (Oxford)
The local Organizing Committee consists of Anatoly Vershik, Yi Zhang, Elena Novikova and Andrey Bovykin.
June is the most romantic time to visit St.Petersburg. Museums, theatres and concert halls, walking on the Neva embankment, the architechure and the scent of spring, and it never gets dark. The bridges open at night to let the boats pass into the Gulf of Finland. There are many cafes, restaurants and shops in the city centre. And there are the Botanical Gardens within 15 min. walk from the Euler Institute.
Among other things, we are planning to supplement the conference with a cultural programme.
REGISTRATION AND FEE
You can register to take part in the conference at
http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2004/lag/app.html
The conference fee is 240 U.S. dollars. However, early registration (before April, 1) will make it 200 U.S. dollars. We strongly recommend to pay on-line. The procedure is described on the registration page above.
ACCOMMODATION
There are two hotels (the "Palace of Youth" and "Nord") within walking
distance from the Euler Institute. The rooms have to be reserved well in
advance to be sure of availability. Please mention it in your registration
form if you need our help to reserve accommodation or contact Elena
Novikova by email at novikova@pdmi.ras.ru
VISA
At the moment, citizens of many countries need a visa to enter Russia.
There are many tourist agencies in every country readily selling tourist
visas to Russia. There is also a possibility to obtain your visa invitation via
the Euler Institute. The webpage
http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2004/lag/visa.html
is devoted to the visa procedure for participants of our conference.
Please note that it may take some time to obtain a visa. Thus, we strongly
recommend that you apply at least 2 months in advance.
SERIES
If proved a success, we are planning to this meeting to grow into an annual series of meeting,
under the title, say, Methods of Logic in Mathematics.
Organizing Committee of the Logic, Algebra and Geometry meeting