Events in Sets and Logic: Wednesday 29/xi - Sunday 3/xii 2006 CAMELEON

There will be a series of Logic-related events in Cambridge starting on Wednesday 29th November and running into the weekend. Entirely by coincidence there are a lot of Clay lectures in Cambridge that same week.

The Logic-related events include:

A Cameleon meeting on Saturday 2/xii. It will be held in Meeting Room 2 in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Speakers so far:
Philip Ehrlich

The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and The Unification of All Numbers Great and Small

Harold Simmons (University of Manchester)

The topological content of Monotone Bar Induction and the Fan Principle

Abstract:

Both MBI and FP are techniques used in some variant of constructive mathematics. They also have some interest for proper mathematics. They are often only applied only to the Baire tree and the Cantor tree, respectively, but in a suitable form can be applied to any tree. In the classical context they are choice principles related to Dependent Choice. The two principles are not equivalent and the difference can be measure using a tological ranking technique.
I will describe some of the older work on the techniques, and then throw in a new observation.

Carsten Butz (ITU, Copenhagen)

Boolean valued Models revisited

Jamie Gabbay

Substitution in Fraenkel-Mostowski sets

Details of other talks will be posted here in due course. The provisional timetable is: Ehrlich 1100, Simmons 1230, Butz 1445, Gabbay 1615, but this can changed if any participants feel strongly.
Cameleon traditionally provides food and drink to participants: if you want to come to the meeting tell tf@dpmms.cam.ac.uk so we can calculate how many loaves and fishes to buy.

A Minicourse on countable ordinals. This will be in the Computer Laboratory's Minicourse Series, and will take the form of three two-hour sessions (10.00 to noon) on each of the three days Wednesday 29/xi, Thursday 30/xi and Friday 1/xii. The friday session will be 0900-1045 in order not to clash with the Part IV lecture (see below). The sessions will be in FW11 in the Computer Laboratory. The first talk will be given by Thomas Forster and the second and third by Harold Simmons. For details follow the links in Cambridge Talks
A CUSPOMMS (Cambridge University Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences) meeting

Speaker: Stewart Shapiro: "The open-texture of computability" (The paper is an attempt to apply Waismann's notion of open-texture, and Lakatos's *Proofs and refutations*, to the notion of computability, and thus to the question of whether Church's thesis is subject to mathematical proof.) There is a handout here .
It will be held on Friday 1/xii in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3, at the usual time of 1400hrs.

At 1100-1300 on Friday 1/xii Meeting Room 14, CMS, there will be a ``Part IV'' lecture on Quine's set theory NF by Thomas Forster. This is part of DPMMS's programme of lectures for graduates. This lecture will be devoted to background in NF, since I now have a Ph.D. student studying it.

My assistant during these vexed times will be Dang VU: whose mobile number 07717871459. My number is 07887-701-562.

CAMELEON (CAMbridgE LEeds Or Norwich) exists to further links between logicians at the three universities its name alludes to. It has funding from The London Mathematical Society and The St Luke's Institute.

Cameleon: June 2007 in Leeds

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