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Very informal gathering of logicians, Los Angeles CA (U.S.A.), 1-3 Feb 2008

LOGIC MEETING AT THE UCLA LOGIC CENTER
February 1 - February 3, 2008

There will be a very informal gathering of logicians at UCLA, from
2:00 PM on Friday, February 1, until 12:00, noon, on Sunday, February
3. This is the fourteenth in a series of occasional meetings, which
started in 1975-76 and are characterized by few formal talks (in all
areas of logic) and plenty of time for informal contact.

Friday, February 1, 2008
The Mathematics Department Lounge,  Room MS 6220
3:00 - 3:50  Jeremy Avigad, Unwinding Furstenberg's proof of
Szemeredi's Theorem
4:00 - 4:50  Chris Pollett, The Surjective Weak Pigeonhole in Bounded
Arithmetic
5:00 - 7:00  Get-together, Room MS 6220.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Room MS 5200
    9:30 - 10:20  Christian Rosendal, Banach spaces without minimal
subspaces
   11:00 - 11:50  Deirdre Haskell, A survey of the model theory of
valued fields
    2:00 -  2:50  Justin Moore, Uncountable linear orders
    3:30 -  5:30  Informal talks and problem session. (Contact Kechris
at kechris@caltech.edu or during the meeting.)
    8:00 -        Party, information will be provided.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Room MS 5200
    9:30 -  10:20  Marcus Kracht, Extensions of K4
11:00  -  11:50  Jan Reimann, Algorithmic theories of mutual information
End of meeting
The meeting is open to all and it is free, although the organizers
will happily accept a voluntary, $20 contribution by non-student
participants, to help cover the non-chargeable entertainment costs.

Student Travel Awards: The Logic Center will make modest travel
awards to graduate students who attend the meeting. Please send an
email message with a CV or a brief description of your studies, and
ask your Thesis Adviser to also send a recommendation to
ynm@math.ucla.edu.

For additional and regularly updated information, check http://
www.math.ucla.edu/~ynm/vig08 or send a message to Yiannis N.
Moschovakis, ynm@math.ucla.edu.