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## Model Theory in Geometry and Arithmetic May 12, 2014 - May 16, 2014

May 12, 2014
Monday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Hrushovski-Kazhdan's motivic Poisson formula and motivic height zeta functions Antoine Chambert-Loir (Université de Paris XI) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Towards a theory of residue field domination for convexly valued ordered fields Deirdre Haskell (McMaster University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM An application of difference fields to algebraic dynamics. Zoé Chatzidakis (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Transferring imaginaries: from ACVF to Qp (joint work with E. Hrushovski and B. Martin) Silvain Rideau (École Normale Supérieure)
May 13, 2014
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Non-archimedean Yomdin-Gromov parametrizations and points of bounded height François Loeser (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Applications of motivic integration to harmonic analysis Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Growth in groups: ideas and perspectives Harald Helfgott (Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Definable topological dynamics Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame) 04:30 PM - 06:20 PM Reception
May 14, 2014
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM An Ax-Schanuel theorem for the modular curve and the j-function Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Uniform bounds for derivatives of definable functions with a diophantine application Alex Wilkie (University of Manchester)
May 15, 2014
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM An application of the model theory of differential fields to Poisson algebras Rahim Moosa (University of Waterloo) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM On the semantics of non-commutative geometry and exotic summation formulas. Boris Zilber (University of Oxford) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM To $p$ or not to $p$: Galois' first glimpse of Hensel on wild grounds Jochen Koenigsmann (University of Oxford) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Generalizations of Hilbert's Tenth Problem Kirsten Eisentraeger (Pennsylvania State University)
May 16, 2014
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Complexity classes of simple theories Maryanthe Malliaris (University of Chicago) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Definably amenable NIP groups Pierre Simon (University of California, Berkeley) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM On the group of purely inseparable points of an abelian variety defined over a function field of positive characteristic Damian Rössler (Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea