2015-2016 Set Theory Seminar

July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, The Fields Institute

The Toronto Set Theory Seminar usually meets on Fridays from 1:30 to 3 pm. Some of the topics covered in the seminar are: Ramsey theory, forcing, descriptive set theory, large cardinals, set theoretic topology and applications of logic to operator algebras.

Schedule

Past Talks

Friday, June 24th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	A consistent failure Glimm’s theorem for nonseparable C-algebras Ilijas Farah, York University Location:*Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, June 17th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Ultrafilters on the rationals generated by perfect sets David Breton, University of Michigan Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, June 10th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Algebra in the Samuel compactification Dana Bartosova, University of Sao Paulo Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, June 3rd, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	CH and homeomorphisms of Stone-Cech remainders Alessandro Vignati (York University) Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, May 27th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Banach spaces from Construction Schemes Fulgencio Lopez (University of Toronto) Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, May 20th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	An invariant set-theoretic approach to Mathias' theorem Asger Tornquist, University of Copenhagen Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, May 13th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Large Cardinals Beyond Choice Peter Koellner, Harvard University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Monday, May 2nd, 2016
14:30 to 16:00	Custom-made Souslin trees Ari Brodsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, April 22nd, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Graph embedding and the P-ideal dichotomy Juris Steprans, York University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, April 15th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Analytic group topologies Francisco Guervara, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, April 8th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Co-analytic sets of reals and Selection Principles Secil Tokgoz Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, April 1st, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Compact spaces of the first Baire class Antonio Aviles, University of Murcia Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Monday, March 28th, 2016
13:00 to 14:00	Towards a selective Gowers dichotomy Iian Smythe Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
14:00 to 15:00	There may be no minimal non $\sigma$-scattered linear order Justin Moore, Cornell University Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
15:30 to 16:30	Strong Homology and Set Theory Jeffrey Bergfalk Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	No Title Specified Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, March 18th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	The countable lifting property. The case of finite fields. Robert Raphael Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, March 11th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Selective Ultrafilters on FIN Yuan Yuan Zheng, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, March 4th, 2016
13:30 to 15:00	Non-metrizable descriptive set theory, generalized metric spaces, and selection principles Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, February 26th, 2016
13:30 to 14:30	Avoiding equal distances Ashutosh Kumar, University of Wisconsin–Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, February 5th, 2016
13:30 to 14:30	Canonical equivalence relations on the topological Ramsey space $FIN_k$ Dimitris Vlitas, ParisTech Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, January 29th, 2016
13:30 to 14:30	Definable Versions of Hurewicz's Conjecture that Menger Spaces are Sigma-compact Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, January 22nd, 2016
13:30 to 14:30	Topological partition relations for countable ordinals Diana Ojeda-Aristizabal, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, January 8th, 2016
13:30 to 14:30	Some results in the partition calculus Dilip Raghavan, National University of Singapore Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, December 11th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Entire functions with small orbits Ashutosh Kumar, University of Wisconsin–Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, December 4th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Nonstandard Analysis and its application in Markov Chain Haosui Duanmu, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, November 27th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Questions in topological dynamics and Ramsey theory - CANCELLED Dana Bartosova, University of Sao Paulo Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, November 20th, 2015
13:00 to 14:00	Approximate Ramsey property of matrices and f.d. normed spaces Jordi Lopez Abad Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:00	The simplex of invariant measures of a minimal homeomorphism Julien Melleray, Université Lyon 1 Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, November 13th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Further applications of topology to model theory Chris Eagle, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, November 6th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Higher finite powers of L spaces and higher dimensions of combinatorial properties Yinhe Ping Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, October 30th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	An infinite self dual Ramsey theorem Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, October 23rd, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	A transversal of full outer measure - Part 2 Ashutosh Kumar, University of Wisconsin–Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, October 16th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	A transversal of full outer measure - Part 1 Ashutosh Kumar, University of Wisconsin–Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, October 9th, 2015
12:00 to 13:00	Combinatorial properties of the oscillation map, L groups and higher dimensions, Part II Yinhe Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
13:00 to 14:00	Model Theory and the Mean Ergodic Theorem Jose Iovino, University of Texas at Arlington Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, October 2nd, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Combinatorial properties of the oscillation map, L groups and higher dimensions, Part I Yinhe Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, September 25th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	An application of ZFC to Topology Alan Dow, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, September 18th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	On Prokhorov spaces David Fremlin, University of Essex Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:30 to 15:30	Monotone normality, generalizations and independence results Peter Nyikos, South Carolina Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, September 11th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Remainders of Topological Groups and Some Covering Properties Secil Tokgoz Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, September 4th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	PFA(S)[S] and countably compact spaces, continued Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, August 28th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	PFA(S)[S] and countably compact spaces, continued Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, August 21st, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	PFA(S)[S] and countably compact spaces, continued Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, August 14th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	PFA(S)[S] and countably compact spaces, III Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, August 7th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	On the structure of the universal minimal flows via (near) ultrafilters Dana Bartosova, University of Sao Paulo Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, July 31st, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	PFA(S)[S] and countably compact spaces, II Franklin Tall, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, July 24th, 2015
13:30 to 14:30	Products of derived structures on topological spaces Maxim Burke, University of Prince Edward Island Location:Fields Institute, Room 210