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NYC Logic Conference weekend after next, April 5-7, 2002

Enjoy a logic weekend in the city!

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

Confirmed speakers include:

Friday, April 5:
  Professor Wilfrid Hodges   ( Queen Mary University of London ), 2:00 pm
    Some model theory of imperfect information
  Professor Mel Fitting   ( The City University of New York ), 3:30 pm
    What Is Computation  (NYLC speaker)
  Professor W. Hugh Woodin   ( University of California at Berkeley ), 5:00 pm
    The Continuum Hypothesis  (NYLC speaker)

Saturday, April 6:
  Professor John Truss   ( University of Leeds ), 10:00 pm
    Some classification results for partially homogeneous structures
  Dr. David Aspero   ( University of Vienna, Insitute for Logic ), 11:00 pm
    Separating bounded forcing axioms
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    Set Theory Special Session:
      Professor Peter Koepke   ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t
Bonn )
        Mutual Stationarity and Consistency Strengths
      Professor Yi Zhang   ( University of Helsinki )
        Title to be announced
      Thoralf R?sch   ( Universit?t Potsdam )
        A new Condensation Principle
      Professor Ilijas Farah   ( The City University of New York )
        Title to be announced
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    Model Theory Special Session
      Professor Alexei Miasnikov   ( City College of CUNY )
        On model theory and algebraic geometry over groups
      Dr. Andrey Bovykin
        Title to be announced
      Monica VanDieren   ( Carnegie Mellon University )
        A Substitute for Saturation in Abstract Elementary Classes
      Professor Rami Grossberg   ( Carnegie Mellon University )
        Morley sequences in Abstract Elementary Classes
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Professor Boris Zilber   ( University of Oxford ), 4:00 pm
  Classical transcendental functions, Hrushovski's construction and Shelah's
  excellent theories

Sunday: The Mel Fitting Celebration, April 7, 2002
  Professor Kit Fine   ( New York University )
    The Logic of Postulation
  Professor Wiktor 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 Hartry Field   ( New York University )
    Saving the Truth Schema From Paradox
  Professor Raymond Smullyan   ( Indiana University, Bloomington )
    Logical Legerdemain

The conference is being organized by Joel David Hamkins, Roman Kossak, Rohit
Parikh and Sergei Artemov, all at CUNY.  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.

It is the policy of MAMLS to encourage the participation of graduate students
with a flat reimbursement of $35 for incidental expenses.  Please contact
hamkins@nylogic.org with questions.
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http://nylogic.org/Conference for abstracts, speaker photos and current schedule
information.
http://nylogic.org/Conference/Directions for hotel and travel information.