ESF Research Conferences

ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM

Third European Set Theory Conference

3 - 8 July 2011

Final Programme

Sunday 3 July

17:00 - 20:00Registration (at Chancellor's Court Hotel)
Monday 4 July

08:30 - 09:00
Welcome address
Philip Welch - University of Bristol, UK
Morris Aizenman - European Science Foundation Representative
Session 1

09:00 - 10:00Alexander Kechris - California Institute of Technology, US
Borel combinatorics and ergodic theory
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Dima Sinapova - University of California at Irvine, US
The tree property for small cardinals
11:30 - 12:30Benjamin Miller - University of Muenster, DE
The $G_1$ dichotomy
12:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Poster Session
Session 2

14:00 - 15:00
Grzegorz Plebanek - University of Wroclaw, PL
Baire measurability in some C(K) spaces
15:00 - 16:00
Christian Rosendal - University of Illinois at Chicago, US
On bounded representations and maximal symmetry
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30Ilias Farah - York University, CA
Set theory and C*-algebras
17:30 - 18:30
Alain Louveau - CNRS and University of Paris VI, FR
A dual Ramsey result for finite co-structures
18:30
Welcome Drink (Informatics Building)
Tuesday 5 July

Session 3

09:00 - 10:00Ralf-Dieter Schindler - University of Muenster, DE
Vagaries of Bounded Forcing Axioms
10:00 - 10:30
Group photo & Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Piotr Koszmider - Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
Some cardinal invariants on Banach spaces
11:30 - 12:30David Aspero - National University of Colombia, CO
Measuring sequences of closed sets, together with CH
12:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00Poster Session
Session 4

14:00 - 15:00
Andrew Brooke-Taylor - University of Bristol, UK
Unprepared indestructibility
15:00 - 16:00
Riccardo Camerlo - Polytechnic University of Turin, IT
The descriptive set theory of the Lebesgue density theorem (joint with A. Andretta)
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30

Vladimir Kanovei - Institute for Information Transmission Problems IITP, RU
On effective compactness and sigma-compactness

19:00
Reception & Conference Dinner (Informatics Building)

Dinner will be followed by a meeting of the European Set Theory Society
Wednesday 6 July

Session 5

09:00 - 10:00

Peter Aczel - University of Manchester, UK
On Voevodsky's Univalence axiom

10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Jana Flaskova - University of West Bohemia Pilzen, CZ
Some ideals and ultrafilters on the natural numbers
11:30 - 12:30
Lajos Soukup - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HR
On properties of families of sets
Free Afternoon

Thursday 7 July

Session 6
09:00 - 10:00
Natasha Dobrinen - University of Denver, US
Canonical Ramsey Theorems and applications in the Tukey theory of ultrafilters
10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Ernest Schimmerling - Carnegie Mellon University, US
How much square is true?
11:30 - 12:30
Heike Mildenberger - University of Freiburg, DE
More preservation properties for non-elementary proper forcings
12:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Poster Session
Session 7

14:00 - 14:30
Forward Look Plenary Discussion
14:30 - 15:30
Boban Velickovic - University of Paris VII, FR
Transfinite Ehrenfeucht Fraissé games
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Matteo Viale - University of Torino, IT
On the relation between PFA and supercompactness
Friday 8 July

08:00

Breakfast and Departure