From Permutation Groups to Model Theory: a Workshop Inspired by the Interests of Dugald Macpherson, on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

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From Permutation Groups to Model Theory: a Workshop Inspired by the Interests of Dugald Macpherson, on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

 17 - 21 Sep 2018

ICMS

  • Sylvy Anscombe, University of Central Lancashire
  • Andres Aranda Lopez, TU Dresden
  • David Bradley-Williams, University of Dusseldorf
  • Deirdre Haskell, McMaster University
  • Charlotte Kestner, Imperial College London
  • Thomas Scanlon, University of California

About:

This meeting was held in honour of the contributions of Dugald Macpherson to bring together key figures and young researchers in Dugald's main fields of interest: model theory, group theory and combinatorics.

Speakers

Peter Cameron, St Andrews Unvierstiy Oligomorphic Groups and Their Orbit Algebras
Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University Modeling Limits
James Mitchell, St Andrews University Semigroup Topologies on the Full Transformation Monoid
Manfred Droste, University of Leipzig Normal Subgroups of Unital Automorphism Groups
Simon Smith, University of Lincoln The Box Product and Dugald's Early Work on Distance Transitive Graphs
Slawomir Solecki, Cornell University Projective Fraissé Limits and Compact Spaces
Martin Liebeck, Imperial College London Bases for Linear Groups
Robert Gray, University of East Anglia Cohomology Theory of Monoids with a Single Defining Relation
Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia Permutation Groups with Certain Finiteness Conditions
Simon Thomas, Rutgers University Characters of Inductive Limits of Finite Alternating Groups
Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago Complexity in Simple Theories
Edith Vargas-Garcia, ITAM-Mexico Reconstructing the Topology on Monoids and Polymorphism Clones of Some Relational Structures
John Truss, University of Leeds Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé Games on Linear Orders and Coloured Linear Orders
David Evans, Imperial College London Actions of Automorphism Groups of Omega-Categorical Structures on Compact Spaces
Isabel Müller, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Stationary Independence and the Extension Property of Partial Automorphisms
Gregory Cherlin, Rutgers University The Relational Complexity of a Finite Primitive Structure
Kartin Tent, University of Muenster Ampleness in Strongly Minimal Structures
Ehud Hrushovski, Oxford University On Measures and Higher Amalgamation
Artem Chernikov, UCLA Hypergraph Regularity and Higher Dimensional Analogs of VC-Dimension
Zoe Chatzidakis, ENS Paris Notions of Difference Closures of Difference Fields
Daoud Siniora, Hebrew University of Jerusalem A Note on Automorphisms of Meet-Trees
Pierre Simon, University of California Homogeneous Structures with Few Types
Anand Pillay, University of Notre Dame P-Adic Nash Groups
Charlie Steinhorn, Vassar College An Application of O-Minimality in Mathematical Economics
Dugald Macpherson, University of Leeds Jordan Permutation Groups, Tree-Like Structures, and Their Limits
Angus Macintyre, QMUL Recent Work on Adele Rings and Related Structures