Boston
2006 Greater Boston Logic Conference
Friday, May 12th - Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Schedule

There will be a registration fee of $20 ($10 for students).
The banquet will be on Saturday at 7:00pm at the Ashdown house.

All principal talks will be held in room 4-370.
Registration and all breaks will be held in room 2-290.

FRIDAY
  Registration 12:00pm    
  Lecture 1 1:30pm Barbara Csima (U. Waterloo) Examining Effectiveness of Fraïssé Limits
  Lecture 2 2:30pm Peter Cholak (U. Notre Dame) The computable enumerable sets: the past, the present and the future
  Coffee Break 3:30pm
  Lecture 3 4:00pm Mirna Dzamonja (U. East Anglia) Some results about compact spaces
 
SATURDAY
  Breakfast 9:00am
  Lecture 4 9:30am Rebecca Weber (Dartmouth) Randomness and Π20 Nullsets
  Lecture 5 10:30am Rahim Moosa (U. Waterloo) Groups in nonstandard compact complex manifolds
  Coffee Break 11:30am
  Lecture 6 12:00pm Benjamin Miller (UCLA) The descriptive set theory of quotient spaces
  Lunch 1:00pm
  Lecture 7 2:00pm Joseph Miller (U. Connecticut) Lowness Notions, Measure and Domination
  Lecture 8 3:00pm Jessica Young (U. British Columbia) Amalgamation in Scott fragments
  Coffee Break 4:00pm
  Contributed Talks
  Session 1
Room 2-131
4:30pm Joel Hamkins (CUNY) The modal logic of forcing
  5:00pm Paul Brodhead (U. Florida) Random Closed Sets
  5:30pm David Milovich (U. Wisconsin) Reflecting cones on boolean algebras
  6:00pm Francois Dorais (Dartmouth) Souslin Trees and Degrees of Constructibility
 
  Session 2
Room 2-135
4:30pm Bernard Anderson (UC Berkeley) Reals n-generic relative to a perfect tree
  5:00pm Victoria Gitman (CUNY) Does proper forcing give new instances of Scott's Problem?
  5:30pm Assaf Hasson (Oxford) Characterizing algebraic functions in model theoretic terms
 
  Session 3
Room 2-136
4:30pm Dan Willard (SUNY Albany) On the Nature of Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem
  5:00pm Thomas Johnstone (CUNY) Weakly Compact Cardinals Made Indestructible
  5:30pm Jonas Reitz (CUNY) The Ground Axiom
  Banquet at the Ashdown House 7:00pm
 
SUNDAY
  Breakfast 9:30am
  Lecture 9 10:00am Heike Mildenberger (U. Vienna) On the number of near coherence classes of ultrafilters
  Lecture 10 11:00am Antonio Montalban (U. Chicago) Well-quasi-orderings and computability theory

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