3-4 Sep 2011
Urbana IL, U.S.A.
--------------------------------------------------------------- A conference entitled LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 2011 will be held September 3-4, 2011, at the Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The organizers are Lou van den Dries and Slawomir Solecki. This meeting, the fifth in the series, will honor Ward Henson's retirement. There will be five invited lectures on Saturday (the 3th) starting at 9:30, and three on Sunday, also starting at 9:30; the meeting will end at 12:20 pm on the 4th. Each day there will be coffee, etc. for 30 minutes before the first talk. Invited speakers include: Itai Ben Yaacov (Lyon) Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers) Julien Melleray (Lyon) Anand Pillay (Leeds) Christian Rosendal (UIC) David Sherman (Virginia) Sergei Starchenko (Notre Dame, to be confirmed) Henri Towsner (UCLA) Financial support for this meeting is provided by a grant from the US National Science Foundation. ACCOMMODATIONS: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801; telephone (217) 333-1241. Mention "Henson Retirement Conference" when making a room reservation (cutoff date August 2, 2011). This hotel is next door to Altgeld Hall, where the conference will take place. TRAVEL: The airport for Champaign and Urbana is Willard Airport (airport code CMI). For information see the airport web page at http://www.flycmi.com/ Champaign-Urbana is also served by Amtrak and Greyhound. The University of Illinois maintains a web page giving a variety of travel information at http://illinois.edu/resourcesfor/visitors/directions.html MEETING WEB PAGE: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Logic2011/