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NYC Logic Conference next month at CUNY Graduate Center April 5-7, in honor of Mel Fitting (fwd)

New York City Logic Conference II
(In Celebration of Mel Fitting's 60th Birthday)
At the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan
365 Fifth Avenue, across the street from the Empire State Building
Next month, April 5-7, 2002
http://nylogic.org/Conference

This conference is sponsored by the NSF through the Mid-Atlantic Mathematical
Logic Seminar, by the CUNY Graduate Center through the New York Logic
Colloquium, by the CUNY Research Foundation through a block grant for
mathematical logic at CUNY, and by funds gathered by Rohit Parikh specifically
for the Fitting Celebration.

Confirmed speakers include:

Friday: ( with featured speakers sponsored by the New York Logic Colloquium )
  Professor Boris Zilber   ( University of Oxford )
    Classical transcendental functions, Hrushovski's construction
    and Shelah's excellent theories
  Professor Mel Fitting   ( The City University of New York )
  Professor W. Hugh Woodin   ( University of California at Berkeley )
    The Continuum Hypothesis

Saturday:  ( with special sessions in set theory and model theory )
  Professor John Truss   ( University of Leeds )
    Some classification results for partially homogeneous structures
  Professor David Aspero   ( University of Vienna, Institute for Logic )
    Separating bounded forcing axioms
  Professor Yi Zhang   ( University of Helsinki )
  Professor Peter Koepke   ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t Bonn )
  Professor Alexei Miasnikov   ( City College of CUNY )

Sunday: ( The Mel Fitting Celebration )
  Professor Kit Fine   ( New York University )
     The Logic of Postulation
  Professor Viktor Marek   ( University of Kentucky, Lexington )
     Some applications of universal algebra to semantics of
     non-monotonic logics
  Professor Howard Blair   ( Syracuse University )
     From Metric to Convergence Space Methods: Some Examples
     and a theorem or two
  Professor Raymond Smullyan   ( Indiana University, Bloomington )
     Title to be announced

A more complete schedule of speakers and talks will be sent later.  The
conference is being organized by Joel David Hamkins, Roman Kossak, Rohit Parikh
and Sergei Artemov, all at CUNY.

It is the policy of MAMLS to encourage the participation of graduate students
with a flat reimbursement of $25 for incidental expenses.  Please contact
hamkins@nylogic.org with questions.
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http://nylogic.org/Conference