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1. MT Research Seminar: Tameness and coincidence of dimensions in expansions of the real field

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Chris Miller (Ohio State University)

Philipp Hieronymi and I have recently established that if E is a boolean combination of open subsets of real euclidean n-space, and the expansion of the real field by E does not define the set of all integers, then the Lebesgue covering dimension of E is equal to its Assouad dimension (hence also to its Hausdorff and packing dimensions, and also to its upper Minkowski dimension if E is bounded). The proof is too technical to attempt in a seminar talk, but the result is surprisingly easy to prove for the case n=1. Indeed, I will prove the

(possibly) stronger result that all reasonable (in a way that I will make precise) Lipschitz invariant metric dimensions then coincide on E.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 01:54 PM PDT
2. Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Location: UC Berkeley, 939 Evans Hall
Speakers: I. Martin Isaacs, François Loeser (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))

3:45 I. Martin Isaacs: Orbit sizes and an analog of the Alperin weight conjecture.

Let G be a finite group acting on a finite vector space V. Then G also acts on the dual space of V, and by general principles, the numbers of orbits in these two actions are equal. Although the sizes of the orbits in these actions generally do not agree, there are, nevertheless, some subtle relationships among these orbit sizes. The proof of the relevant theorem is not hard, but it involves a formula that is formally identical to the still unproved Alperin weight conjecture, which will be explained.

5:00 Francois Loeser: Monodromy and the Lefschetz fixed point formula
In 2002, in joint work with Jan Denef, we gave a formula expressing the Lefschetz numbers of iterates of the monodromy in terms of arc spaces  using direct computation on a resolution. In this talk we shall present a different proof, relying on a Lefschetz fixed point formula and non-archimedean geometry. This is joint work with Ehud Hrushovski.
Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:22 AM PDT
3. Finite Structures Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Speakers: Vincent Guingona (University of Notre Dame)
Created on Apr 09, 2014 03:24 PM PDT
4. Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: Pseudo Real Closed fields and NTP2

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Samaria Montenegro-Guzman (Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot))

The notion of PAC fields has been generalized by Basarab and by Prestel to ordered fields. Prestel defines a field M to be Pseudo Real Closed field (PRC) if M is existentially closed (in the language of rings) in every regular extension L to which all orderings of M extend. Equivalently, if every absolutely irreducible variety defined over M that has a rational point in every real closure of M, has an M-rational point.

In the first part of the talk I will present a short summary of the required preliminaries on pseudo real closed fields.The main theorem is a positive answer to the conjecture by A. Chernikov, I. Kaplan and P. Simon: If M is a PRC field, then Th(M) is NTP2 if and only if M is bounded.

In the second part of the talk I will give a sketch of the proof.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 02:01 PM PDT
5. Introduction to the middle K-theory of group rings and their relevance in topology, Part One: Introductory Talk

Location: UC Berkeley, 740 Evans Hall
Speakers: Wolfgang Lueck

We give a basic introduction to the projective class group of a group ring and the Whitehead group of a group and discuss applications to topology such as Wall's finiteness obstruction, the s-Cobordism Theorem and topological rigidity.

Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:17 AM PDT
6. Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: Higher amalgamation and polygroupoids.

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: John Goodrick

In simple theory, n-amalgamation is the property that any coherent, independent system of types indexed by proper subsets of {1, ..., n} has a consistent extension. For stable theories, there is a three-way connection (first discovered by Hrushovski) between 4-amalgamation of types, definable groupoids, and the splitting of certain finite covers.

The present talk reports on joint work with Byunghan Kim and Alexei Kolesnikov which generalizes the equivalence of 4-amalgamation and eliminability of definable groupoids: in a stable theory, if n is minimal such that n-amalgamation fails, then in a mild expansion (adding a predicate for a Morley sequence) the theory interprets a homogeneous, locally finite structure which we call an (n-2)-ary polygroupoid that witnesses the failure of amalgamation. A 2-ary polygroupoid is an ordinary groupoid, and a k-ary polygroupoid has a k-ary "composition" operation which satisfies a generalized associativity law.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 02:06 PM PDT
7. Algebraic K- and L-theory of groups rings and their applications to topology and geometry, Part II: Main Talk

Location: UC Berkeley, 740 Evans Hall
Speakers: Wolfgang Lueck

We give an introduction to the K- and L-theoretic Farrell-Jones Conjecture and discuss its status. e.g, recently it has been proved for all lattices in almost connected Lie groups. We give a panorama of its large variety of applications, for instance to the Novikov Conjecvture about the homotopy invariance of higher signatures, the Borel Conjecture about the
topological rigidity of aspherical manifolds and to hyperbolic groups with spheres as boundary. Finally we dicsuss some connections to equivariant homotopy and homology for proper actions of infinite groups.

Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:19 AM PDT
1. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Module structures on Goodwillie derivatives

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Michael Ching (Amherst College)
Updated on Apr 14, 2014 10:50 AM PDT
2. AT Research Seminar: The classification of Taylor towers for functors from based spaces to spectra

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Michael Ching (Amherst College)

The Goodwillie derivatives of a functor from based spaces to spectra possess additional structure that allows the Taylor tower of the functor to be reconstructed. I will describe this structure as a 'module' over the 'pro-operad' formed by the Koszul duals of the little disc operads. For certain functors this structure arises from an actual module over the little L-discs operad for some L. In particular, this is the case for functors that are left Kan extensions from a category of 'pointed framed L-dimensional manifolds' (which are examples of the zero-pointed manifolds of Ayala and Francis). As an application I will describe where Waldhausen's algebraic K-theory of spaces fits into this picture. This is joint work with Greg Arone (and, additionally, with Andrew Blumberg for the application to K-theory).

Updated on Apr 14, 2014 11:20 AM PDT
3. Unlikely intersections in semi-abelian schemes.

Location: 891 Evans Hall
Speakers: Daniel Bertrand (Universite Paris VI)

Given a "non-special" section of a semi-abelian scheme over a curve, the relative Manin-Mumford conjecture (RMM) asserts that its image W meets only finitely many torsion curves. I will explain how a relative version of the points constructed (in a Kummer theoretical setting) by the organizer of this seminar  provide very special" examples of infinite intersection. However, the corresponding curves W recover a "normally special" status, when viewed in the setting of Pink's conjecture on mixed Shimura varieties. Furthermore, these sections form the only counterexample to the standard version of RMM for semi-abelian surfaces. These are joint results with B. Edixhoven, and with D. Masser, A. Pillay and U. Zannier.

Created on Apr 11, 2014 02:11 PM PDT
4. Alegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:24 AM PST
5. MSRI/Evans Lecture: A journey through motivic integration

Location: 60 Evans Hall
Speakers: François Loeser (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))

Motivic integration was invented by Kontsevich about 20 years ago for proving that Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau are birational invariants and has developed at a fast pace since. I will start by presenting informally a device for defining and computing motivic integrals due to Cluckers and myself. I will then focus on  some recent applications. In particular I plan to explain how motivic integration provides tools for proving uniformity results for $p$-adic integrals occuring in the Langlands program and  how one may use "motivic harmonic analysis" to study certain generating series counting curves in enumerative algebraic geometry.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 03:43 PM PDT
6. Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
7. Model Theory Day-Long Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Mar 04, 2014 02:57 PM PST
8. Eisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Location: Evans 939
Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:42 AM PST
9. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 02:34 PM PST
10. AT Research Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 14, 2014 08:55 AM PST
11. AT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Speakers: Hiro Tanaka (Harvard University)
Created on Feb 07, 2014 09:36 AM PST
12. MT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 02:45 PM PDT
13. Alegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:23 AM PST
14. MSRI/Evans Lecture: The (un)reasonable effectiveness of model theory in mathematics

Location: 60 Evans Hall
Speakers: Carol Wood (Wesleyan University)

The talk will be built around  examples of how model theory informs our understanding in areas of mathematics such as algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry and analysis. The model theory behind these applications includes concepts such as compactness, definability, stability and o-minimality. However, we assume  no special expertise in model theory, but rather aim  to illustrate the kinds  of  mathematical questions for which a model theoretical perspective has proven to be useful.

Updated on Apr 15, 2014 11:58 AM PDT
15. Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
16. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 04, 2014 09:06 AM PST
17. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 11:20 AM PDT
18. Eisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Location: Evans 939
Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:42 AM PST
19. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 02:41 PM PST
20. AT Research Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 14, 2014 08:56 AM PST
21. MT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 06, 2014 09:23 AM PST
22. AT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Vesna Stojanoska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created on Feb 07, 2014 09:36 AM PST
23. Alegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:23 AM PST
24. Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
25. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 04, 2014 09:06 AM PST
26. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 11:23 AM PDT
27. Eisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Location: Evans 939
Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:43 AM PST
28. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 02:44 PM PST
29. AT Research Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 14, 2014 08:57 AM PST
30. MT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 06, 2014 09:23 AM PST
31. AT Postdoc Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Joseph Hirsh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created on Feb 07, 2014 09:37 AM PST
32. AT Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Alexei Kitaev (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Created on Apr 14, 2014 09:17 AM PDT
33. Alegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:22 AM PST
34. Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:23 AM PST
35. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 04, 2014 09:05 AM PST
36. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 11:31 AM PDT
37. Eisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Location: Evans 939
Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:43 AM PST
38. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Updated on Mar 11, 2014 03:18 PM PDT
39. AT Research Seminar

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 14, 2014 08:57 AM PST
40. Alegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:20 AM PST
41. Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Baker Board Room
Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:24 AM PST
42. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 04, 2014 08:54 AM PST
43. Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 11:32 AM PDT
44. Eisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Location: Evans 939
Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:44 AM PST
45. AT Research Seminar Pre-Talk

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 02:51 PM PST
46. AT Research Seminar

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Created on Feb 14, 2014 08:58 AM PST

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1. SeminarMT Research Seminar: Torsion free groups definable in o-minimal structures.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 01:38 PM PDT
2. SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:16 AM PST
3. SeminarAlegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:24 AM PST
4. SeminarUC Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: Locally definable groups as covers of definable groups.

Created on Apr 04, 2014 10:01 AM PDT
5. SeminarMT Research Seminar: The Finite Submodel Property and Definability in Classes of Finite Structures.

Updated on Apr 04, 2014 12:57 PM PDT
6. SeminarMT Research Seminar: On the fundamental complexity of simple theories

Updated on Apr 04, 2014 09:47 AM PDT
7. SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Sullivan's conjecture and applications to arithmetic

Updated on Apr 01, 2014 03:43 PM PDT
8. SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:15 AM PST
9. SeminarProblem Sessions in Model Theory

Created on Mar 27, 2014 11:58 AM PDT
10. SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Galois equivariance and stable motivic homotopy theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 01:16 PM PDT
11. SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar

Created on Feb 06, 2014 09:21 AM PST
12. SeminarAT Research Seminar: Compactified string topology

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 12:07 PM PDT
13. SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Introduction to string topology and to combinatorial models for the moduli space of Riemann surfaces

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 11:41 AM PDT
14. SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: On a nilpotence conjecture of J.P. May

Created on Mar 28, 2014 11:25 AM PDT
15. SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar Intro talk: Prerequisites on ring spectra and nilpotence

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 10:37 AM PDT
16. SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Bounding the density of rational points on trascendental hypersurfaces via model theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:53 AM PDT
17. SeminarMT Research Seminar: Towards a Z/ell analogue of Bogomolov's birational anabelian geometry.

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:40 AM PDT
18. SeminarMT Research Seminar: Deformation of tame sets and additive invariants.

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:18 AM PDT
19. SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:14 AM PST
20. SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Uses of commutative rings in homotopy theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 10:11 AM PDT
21. SeminarMT Research Seminar: On VC-minimality and variants

Created on Mar 21, 2014 10:23 AM PDT
22. SeminarMT Basics

Created on Mar 21, 2014 02:26 PM PDT
23. SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:37 AM PST
24. SeminarMT Research Seminar: Weight functions on Berkovich spaces and poles of maximal order of motivic zeta functions.

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 10:07 AM PDT
25. SeminarMT Research Seminar: Newtonian fields

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 09:56 AM PDT
26. SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:14 AM PST
27. SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: A two-headed monster in algebra and topology

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 10:58 AM PDT
28. SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Strong minimality of the $j$-function

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 11:13 AM PDT
29. SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Connections between Ramsey Theory and Model Theory.

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 11:24 AM PDT
30. SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Why do algebraic topologists care about categories?

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:27 AM PDT
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