Calendar

Feb
23
Fri
Ch.12&III Review
Feb 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: Umar Gaffar @ Keller 314
Feb 23 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

This week Umar Gaffar will give Shelah’s proof of the following result:

Let $\lambda$ be the cardinality of an ultraproduct of finite sets. If $\lambda$ is infinite then $\lambda=\lambda^{\aleph_0}$.

Feb
26
Mon
III Review &Ch.13
Feb 26 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Feb
28
Wed
III Review &Ch.13
Feb 28 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
2
Fri
Chs.14&15
Mar 2 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
5
Mon
Chs.14&15
Mar 5 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
7
Wed
Chs.15&16
Mar 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Part III module presentations
Mar 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
9
Fri
Chs.15&16
Mar 9 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: Mushfeq Khan
Mar 9 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mar
12
Mon
Ch.16&IV Review&17
Mar 12 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
14
Wed
Ch.16&IV Review&17
Mar 14 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
16
Fri
Midterm 2
Mar 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: Mushfeq Khan
Mar 16 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mar
19
Mon
Chs.17&18
Mar 19 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
21
Wed
Chs.17&18
Mar 21 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mar
23
Fri
Chs.19&20
Mar 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Part IV module presentations
Mar 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: Amenability and Symbolic Dynamics @ Keller Hall 314
Mar 23 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

David Webb will continue to discuss results from Adam Day’s paper on amenability and symbolic dynamics.

Apr
2
Mon
Chs.19&20
Apr 2 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Apr
4
Wed
Ch.21&V Review
Apr 4 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Apr
6
Fri
Ch.21&V Review
Apr 6 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: David Ross
Apr 6 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

This week in the Logic Seminar in Keller 314, David Ross will give an easy proof of a slight extension of a result of Lagarias on the Diophantine equation

       $$ c(1/x_1+cdots+1/x_s)+b/(x_1 x_2cdots x_s)=a$$

The proof will be nonstandard, but really only require a sufficiently-saturated ordered field extension of $mathbb R$.

Apr
9
Mon
Barb Bruno guest lecturer
Apr 9 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Apr
11
Wed
V Review&Ch.22
Apr 11 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Apr
13
Fri
V Review&Ch.22
Apr 13 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Logic seminar: Mushfeq Khan @ Keller 314
Apr 13 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Mushfeq Khan will coninue to speak on amenability and symbolic dynamics.  The focus will be the Ornstein-Weiss combinatorial
lemmas from Adam Day’s paper.

Apr
16
Mon
Chs.22,23,24
Apr 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Part V module presentations
Apr 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Apr
18
Wed
Chs.22,23,24
Apr 18 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm