Logic Colloquium 2007 (Wrocław, Poland, July 14-19, 2007):
Tentative Schedule

Time Saturday, July 14 Sunday, July 15 Monday, July 16  Tuesday, July 17
 Wednesday, July 18
 Thursday, July 19
Time
08:00-09:00
registration

08:00-09:00
09:00-09:30  opening ceremony
Matthias Baaz Steve Jackson
(I)

Steve Jackson
(II)

Steve Jackson
(III)

Gabriel Debs
09:00-09:30
09:30-10:00 Bjørn
Kjos-Hanssen
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:30 coffee coffee coffee coffee Kobi Peterzil
(III)

10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 coffee Paul Larson Albert Atserias Fernando Ferreira  Zoé Chatzidakis 10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30 Martin Hyland
coffee 11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00 Tony Martin Piotr Kowalski Kobi Peterzil
(I)

Kobi Peterzil
(II)

special
sessions:
L&A 2 and ST 2
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30 Rosalie Iemhoff 12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00 Alex Simpson lunch
lunch excursions
lunch 12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30
lunch

13:00-14:00
13:30-14:00
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30 special
sessions:
JPL 1 and MT 1
Vasco Brattka
special
sessions:
PC, L&A 1 and ST 1
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00 Colin Stirling
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30 Bakh Khoussainov
(II)

15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00 Cristiano Calcagno coffee coffee 15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30 Martín Escardó Bakh Khoussainov
(I)

coffee Bakh Khoussainov
(III)

16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00 coffee special
sessions:
JPL 2 and MT 2
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30 contributed
talks

contributed
talks

contributed
talks

17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00 17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30
break
contributed
talks

18:00-18:30
18:30-19:00
ASL reception
(LICS participants
also invited)

18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30


19:00-19:30
19:30-20:00
ASL
banquet
19:30-20:00
20:00-20:30
Andrzej
Grzegorczyk

20:00-20:30
20:30-21:00
ASL
Council
meeting
20:30-21:00
21:00-22:00








21:00-22:00
22:00-23:00


22:00-23:00

Color Coding:

joint
LICS/LC
talks

tutorial
talks

invited
talks

special
sessions

contributed
talks

ASL
business
meetings
social
events/
excursions
coffee
breaks/
lunch

Joint LICS/LC Long Talks:
Martin Hyland (Cambridge): Combinatorics of Proofs (chair: Andy Pitts)
    Abstract: Ideally interpretations of proofs should exhibit some essential combinatorial features in an interesting and appealing way. As a case study, one can consider the notion of innocent strategy which is the basis for a game semantical interpretation of proofs and programmes. Some combinatorial content of this notion is sketched in the joint LICS paper accompanying this talk, whose abstract reads as follows.
    We show how to construct the category of games and innocent strategies from a more primitive category of games. On that category we define a comonad and monad with the former distributing over the latter. Innocent strategies are the maps in the induced two-sided Kleisli category. Thus the problematic composition of innocent strategies reflects the use of the distributive law. The composition of simple strategies, and the combinatorics of pointers used to give the comonad and monad are themselves described in categorical terms. The notions of view and of legal play arise naturally in the explanation of the distributivity. The category-theoretic perspective provides a clear discipline for the necessary combinatorics.
    There are other instances of a kind of categorical combinatorics of proofs, but in this talk I shall restrict myself to the one instance.
Colin Stirling (Edinburgh): Higher-Order Matching, Games and Automata (chair: Luke Ong)
    Abstract: We describe a particular case where methods such as model-checking as used in verification are transferred to simply typed lambda calculus. Higher-order matching  is the problem given t=u  where t, u are terms of simply typed lambda-calculus and u is closed, is there a substitution S such that tS and u have the same normal form with respect to  beta eta-equality: can t be pattern matched to u? In the talk we  consider the question: can we characterize the set of all  solution terms to a  matching  problem? We provide  an automata-theoretic account  that is relative to resource: given a matching problem and  a finite set of variables and constants,  the (possibly infinite) set of terms that are built from those components and that solve the problem  is regular. The characterization uses standard bottom-up tree automata. However, the technical proof uses  a game-theoretic characterization of matching.
Joint LICS/LC Short Talks:
Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College): Can Logic Tame Systems Programs? (chair: Luke Ong)
    Abstract: We report on our experience on designing and implementing tools for automatic reasoning about safety of systems programs using separation logic. We highlight some of the fundamental obstacles that need to be overcome, such as the complexity of data structures and scalability of the methods, on the path to realistic systems programs.
Martín Escardó (Birmingham): Infinite Sets that Admit Exhaustive Search I (Part II will be given as a LICS talk at 5 p.m.) (chair: Luke Ong)
    Abstract: Perhaps surprisingly, there are infinite sets that admit mechanical exhaustive search in finite time. We investigate three related questions: (1) What kinds of infinite sets admit exhaustive search? (2) How do we systematically build such sets? (3) How fast can exhaustive search over infinite sets be performed?
    We give answers to them in the realm of Kleene-Kreisel higher-type computation: (1) involves the topological notion of compactness, (2) amounts to the usual closure properties of compact sets, including the Tychonoff theorem, (3) provides some fast algorithms and a conjecture.
    These two talks include my contributed LICS paper, but go beyond in two respects: a general introduction to the role of topology in computation is given, and a few new results are included, such as an Arzela-Ascoli type characterization of exhaustible sets.
Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht): Skolemization in Constructive Theories (chair: Andy Pitts)
    Abstract: It has long been known that Skolemization is sound but not complete for intuitionistic logic. We will show that by slightly extending the expressive power of the logic one can define a translation that removes strong quantifiers from predicate formulas and that is related but not equal to Skolemization. Since the extended logic is constructive, the translation can be considered as an alternative to Skolemization for constructive settings. The result easily implies an analogue of Herbrand's theorem. We will apply the method to various constructive theories and compare it to other Skolemization methods and related translations like the Dialectica Interpretation.
Alex Simpson (Edinburgh): Non-well-founded Proofs (chair: Andy Pitts)
    Abstract: I will discuss various situations, arising in computer science, mathematics and logic, in which one is naturally led to consider associated proof systems involving interesting forms of non-well-founded proof.
Tutorial speakers:
Steve Jackson (North Texas): Cardinal Arithmetic in L(R) (chair: Alessandro Andretta)
    Abstract: In this series of talks we will survey the cardinal structure of the model L(R) assuming the axiom of determinacy. We describe the close relationship between the cardinal structure and partition properties of the odd projective ordinals. We will present some recent simplifications to the presentation of this theory, as well as a result connecting the cardinal structure of L(R) to that of the background universe V. We will attempt to make the talks as selfcontained as possible.
Bakh Khoussainov (Auckland): Automatic Structures (chair: Steffen Lempp)
    Abstract: We study automatic structures. These are infinite structures that have automata presentations in a precise sense. By automata we mean any of the following: finite automata, tree automata, Büchi automata and Rabin automata.
    Automatic structures possess a number of interesting algorithmic, algebraic and model-theoretic properties. For example, the first order theory of every automatic structure s decidable; automatic structures are closed under the first order interpretations;  also, there are characterizations theorems for automatic well-founded partially ordered sets, Boolean algebras, trees, and finitely generated groups. Most of these theorems have algorithmic implications. For instance, the isomorphism problem for automatic Boolean algebras is decidable.
    The first lecture covers basic definitions and presents many examples. We explain the decidability theorem that describes extensions of the FO logic in which each automatic structure has a decidable theory. The second lecture surveys techniques for proving whether or not a given structure can be presented by automata. We also talk about logical characterizations of automatic structures. The last lecture concentrates on complexities of automatic structures in terms of well-known concepts of logic and model theory such as heights of well-founded relations, Scott ranks of structures, and Cantor-Bendixson ranks of trees.
    Most of the results are joint with Liu, Minnes, Nies, Nerode, Rubin, Semukhin, and Stephan.
Kobi Peterzil (Haifa): The Infinitesimal Subgroup of a Definably Compact Group (chair: Ludomir Newelski)
    Abstract: Consider the compact Linear group  G=SO(3,R). When G is viewed in any nonstandard real closed field, the set G00 of all matrices in G which are infinitesimally close to the identity forms a normal subgroup. Endow the quotient G/G00 with a "logic topology", whose closed sets are those whose preimages in G are type-definable. It is easy to see that G/G00, with this logic topology, is isomorphic to SO(3,R), with the Euclidean topology.
    Several years ago, A. Pillay conjectured that a similar phenomenon should be true for every "definably compact" group in an arbitrary o-minimal structure, even if the group itself was not defined over the real numbers. Roughly speaking, Pillay conjectured that every definably compact group G in a sufficiently saturated o-minimal structure has a canonical type-definable normal subgroup  G00 such that the group G/G00, when endowed with the logic topology as above, is isomorphic to a compact real Lie group. Moreover, the real dimension of this Lie group equals the o-minimal dimension of G.
    My goal in these talks is to show, with the help of examples, how the interaction between different notions, such as o-minimality, Lie groups, compactness, measure theory, and Shelah's Independence property, yields a solution to the conjecture.
    For background on o-minimality, see van den Dries's book [2] below. For Pillay's conjecture, see [6]. For key-steps in the solution to the conjecture, see [1,5,3,4].
1. A. Berarducci, M. Otero, Y. Peterzil, and A. Pillay, A descending chain condition for groups in -minimal structures, APAL 134 (2005), 303-313
2. L. v.d. Dries, Tame topology and o-minimal structures, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 1998
3. M. Edmundo and M. Otero, Definably compact abelian groups, J. Math. Logic 4 (2004), 163-180.
4. E. Hrushovski, Y. Peterzil and A. Pillay, Groups, measure and the NIP, J. AMS.
5. Y. Peterzil and A. Pillay, Generic sets in definably compact groups, Fund. Math. 193 (2007), 153-170
6. A. Pillay, Type-definability, compact Lie groups, and -minimality, J. Math. Logic 4 (2004), 147-162

Invited Speakers:
Albert Atserias (Barcelona): Structured Finite Model Theory (chair: Jurek Marcinkowski)
    Abstract: Many of the classical results of model theory, most notably some of the direct consequences of the Compactness Theorem, fail badly in restriction to finite structures. A classical example is the Łoś-Tarski preservation-under-substructures Theorem, which is known to fail in the finite. Motivated by certain application-areas in computer science and combinatorics, it has been argued that it might be profitable to consider some further restrictions beyond finiteness. What classical theorems of model theory hold on classes of finite trees? or finite planar graphs? or finite structures of bounded treewidth? or, more generally, minor-closed classes of finite graphs? The goal of our talk is to give an overview of the recent results in  this area. Interestingly, many of these results have at its heart an application of Gaifman's Locality Theorem, which seems  to play in this area a role comparable to the one played by the Compactness Theorem  in classical model theory.
Matthias Baaz (Vienna): Towards a Proof Theory of Analogical Reasoning (chair: Pavel Pudlák)
    Abstract: In this lecture we compare three types of analogies based on generalizations and their instantiations:
  1. Generalization w.r.t. to invariant parts of proofs (e.g., graphs of rule applications etc.).
  2. Generalization w.r.t. to an underlying meaning. (Here proofs and calculations are considered as trees of formal expressions. We analyze the well-known calculation of Euler demonstrating that the 5th Fermat number is compound.)
  3. Generalization w.r.t. to the premises of a proof. (This type of analogies is especially important for juridical reasoning.)
We show that proof transformations of this kind are essential for the development of a proof theory of analogical reasoning.
Vasco Brattka (Cape Town): Computable Analysis and Effective Descriptive Set Theory (chair: Steffen Lempp)
    Abstract: Computable analysis can be considered as an extension of computability theory to infinite objects such as real numbers, continuous functions and closed subsets that are studied in analysis. In a similar way as discrete degrees of non-computability can be classified in the arithmetical hierarchy, the corresponding hierarchy for such classifications in analysis is the Borel hierarchy. Thus, it is natural to expect a fruitful interaction between effective descriptive set theory and computable analysis. In this talk we present an extension of the Representation Theorem of computable analysis to effectively Borel measurable maps. This theorem allows to introduce a conservative extension of the notion of effective Borel measurability to admissibly represented topological spaces as they are used in computable analysis. A resulting notion of reducibility for functions is described and techniques of completeness proofs from computability theory can be imported into this branch of effective descriptive set theory. We apply these techniques to characterise the degree of non-computability of topological operations such as the closure, the interior, the boundary and the derived set operation with respect to hyperspace representations for computable metric spaces.
[1] Vasco Brattka. Effective Borel measurability and reducibility of functions. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 51(1):19-44, 2005
[2] Vasco Brattka and Guido Gherardi. Borel complexity of topological operations on computable metric spaces. In S.B. Cooper, B. Löwe, and A. Sorbi (eds.), Computation and Logic in the Real  World, vol. 4497, LNCS, Springer, Berlin, 2007

Zoé Chatzidakis (Paris 7): Model Theory of Difference Fields, and Some Applications (chair: Ludomir Newelski)
    Abstract: A difference field is a field with a distinguished autormosphism. I will first give a survey of the model theory of the existentially closed difference fields, and then of some application(s) to diophantine geometry. The main tool for applications is the dichotomy theorem, and I will spend some time explaining what are its consequences in the particular context of difference fields, and how they can be used.
Gabriel Debs (Paris 6): Coding Compact Spaces of Borel Functions (chair: Sławomir Solecki)
    Abstract: Let B(X) denote the space of all Borel functions on some Polish space X, equipped with the pointwise convergence topology (i.e. the topology induced by the product topology on RX). When X is uncountable the space B(X) is clearly non metrizable. But it follows from the early work of Rosenthal and Bourgain-Fremlin-Talagrand that the compact subspaces of B(X) possess many metric-like properties : For example most of the standard topological notions admit sequential formulations. Notice that such a compact space K needs not to be metrizable even if it is separable. However in this latter case, one can equip K with some natural “descriptive structures” that we shall describe in more detail in this talk. One consequence of the main result that we shall present here is that all these structures are actually “equivalent” in some sense. This will also provide a positive answer to a question asked by Argyros, Dodos and Kanellopoulos concerning the notion of analytic Rosenthal compacta that they introduced recently. Though many of the statements we shall consider are totally classical, the proofs make a crucial use of Effective Descriptive Set Theory, namely of some fundamental results of Moschovakis on inductive definability.
Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon): On a New Functional Interpretation (chair: Ulrich Kohlenbach)
    Abstract: Gödel's functional "Dialectica" interpretation of 1958 was published with the explicit aim of being a contribution to Hilbert's program. As things go, it introduced a new technical tool in Proof Theory: one that presents a trade-off between quantifier complexity and finite-type computable functionals. Gödel's particular interpretation reduces HA (Heyting arithmetic) to a quantifier-free calculus T of finite-type functionals, thereby reducing the consistency of the former to the consistency of the latter. It is seldom observed explicitly that Gödel's interpretation can also be used to prove certain conservation results. For instance, the adjunction of certain principles (axiom of choice AC, independence of premises IP, Markov's principle MP) does not change the provably Π02-sentences of HA.
    We describe a new (2005) functional interpretation of HA. This functional interpretation (due to the author and Paulo Oliva) uses the same functionals as Gödel's but changes the assignment of formulas. Contrary to Gödel's assignment, our assignment does not preserve set-theoretic truth. The new interpretation yields new conservation results. Some false set-theoretic principles like the refutation of extensionality or Brouwer's FAN theorem, as well as some semi-intuitionistic principles like LLPO (less limited principle of omniscience) or weak König's lemma (WKL), can be adjoined to HA without changing the provably Π02-sentences. More memorably, within intuitionistic logic, the above principles are not able to prove further terminating computations.
    As an illustration, we show that the provably total functions of the classically inconsistent second-order intuitionistic theory WKL0 + LLPO + IP + MP + ACN + FAN are the primitive recursive functions, where ACN is the countable axiom of choice. By the negative translation of Gödel-Gentzen, we get, as an easy corollary, Harvey Friedman's well-known conservation result of (classical) WKL0 over RCA0.
    Finally, we would like to draw attention to an ubiquitous principle in mathematical logic: the bounded collection scheme. It appears in bounded theories of arithmetic, in admissible set theory (as Δ0-collection), and in analysis (if we view Brouwer's FAN principle as a form of collection) and proof mining (Kohlenbach's uniform boundedness principles). We believe that the new interpretation provides a fresh and integrated look at bounded collection.
Andrzej Grzegorczyk (Warsaw): Philosophical Content of Formal Achievements (chair: Zofia Adamowicz)
    Abstract: Two theses will be proposed:
    The first general Thesis: A Perception of Philosophical Content depends on the Taste of  the Scholar. In Science about reality it is Truth. This means a good description of real objects (events).
    In Science about potentialities  (formal / imaginary Science), the value is an Invention of Consistent Construction and may be called: joke and/or beauty.
    The second Thesis:  In formal science, called here imaginaries, we can make the following similar distinction in the taste of scholars:
     Some arguments, an example, and a propaganda for these distinctions will be given.
Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen (Cornell): Brownian Motion and Kolmogorov Complexity (chair: Steffen Lempp)
    Abstract: Probabilistic potential theory contains results of the following form: A randomly chosen small set of reals is almost surely disjoint from a given small set of reals. Here the size of a set can be for example its Hausdorff dimension.
    Using computability theory and Kolmogorov complexity, we obtain some results of this kind, for certain randomly chosen sets associated with Brownian motion. We then investigate to what extent these results can be reproduced using only potential theory.
Piotr Kowalski (Wroclaw): Definability in Differential Fields (chair: Ludomir Newelski)
    Abstract: A differential field is a field equipped with a derivation. In the positive characteristic case one often needs to "improve" the notion of derivation by introducing Hasse-Schmidt derivations. I will briefly discuss the first-order theory of (differentially closed) differential fields. Then, I will focus on two special kinds of definable sets there. Sets of the first kind played a crucial role in the Hrushovski's proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture [2]. Sets of the second kind appear in the statement of a theorem of Ax [1] and its generalizations.
    [1] James Ax, On Schanuel's conjectures, Ann. of Math. (2) 93 (1971), 252-268.
    [2] Ehud Hrushovski, Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields, Journal AMS 9 (1996), 667-690.

Paul Larson (Miami University): Large Cardinals and Forcing-Absoluteness (chair: Joel Hamkins)
    Abstract: Absoluteness theorems of Levy and Shoenfield state that the truth values of Σ1 and Σ12 sentences cannot be changed by set forcing. In the presence of large cardinals, forcing-absoluteness extends to much larger classes of statements. Jumping to the end of a long story, we will talk about some of the strongest forcing absoluteness results, including extensions of Woodin`s Σ21 absoluteness theorem.
Tony Martin (UCLA): Sets and the Concept of Set (chair: Pen Maddy)
    Abstract: Those who doubt that the subject matter of mathematics is a realm of abstract objects often do so because of a general disbelief in the existence of abstract objects. I will propose a very different basis for doubts about the status of mathematical objects. Many people think that various statements of set theory, e.g., the Continuum Hypothesis, are neither true nor false. I am not one of one of these people, but I do think we cannot at present be certain that the CH has a truth-value. I will argue that if it is not certain that the CH has a truth-value then it is also uncertain whether there is any system of objects that satisfies our concept of a universe of sets. It is common to say that the CH has no truth-value and to blame this on the existence of many systems of objects that satisfy the set concept. Part of my job will be to discredit this position. Another part will be to give an account of what set theoretic truth and falsity could amount to if there is no universe of sets.
Special Sessions:
Philosophical and Applied Logic at the JPL (JPL, organized by Penelope Maddy):
Sunday, 2:00 p.m.: Aldo Antonelli (Irvine): From Philosophical Logic to Computer Science - and Back
    Abstract: Over the past 25 years or so, computer scientists have looked at philosophical logic in search of tools for the formal modeling of a number of interactive computational processes, whereas philosophical logician have drawn new inspiration from a set of problems specific to theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. This talk provides a (perforce idiosyncratic) survey of the interactions between the two fields, pointing out interdisciplinary connections and fruitful cross-fertilizations.
Sunday, 2:45 p.m.: Horacio Arlò Costa (Carnegie-Mellon): Philosophical Logic Meets Formal Epistemology (CANCELED)
    Abstract: Formal epistemology is a branch of epistemology that uses formal methods to articulate and solve traditional epistemic problems. The talk surveys some recent interactions between philosophical logic and formal epistemology. We focus on epistemic problems related to the representation of attitudes and their change, both for single and multiple agents. The consideration of these problems has motivated, for example, new work in areas like belief revision, epistemic and dynamic logic or formalisms to represent uncertainty. More expressive and sophisticated formalisms have been developed (first and second order extensions of well known formalisms as well as new multi-modal and multi-agent approaches). Finally the consideration of some paradoxes concerning the relation of probability and qualitative belief, as well as problems related to judgment aggregation, have motivated researchers to rethink the very foundations of the Kripkean semantic program in modal logic. We survey some of these new developments as well as the philosophical problems that motivated them.
Monday, 4:30 p.m.: Greg Restall (Melbourne): Proof Theory and Meaning: Three Case Studies
    Abstract: Many of us are attracted to the idea that inference rules play a role in determining meanings. In this talk I will illustrate options for infererentialist approaches to meaning by looking at three case case studies discussed in the recent literature: (1) classical logic, (2) modalities, and (3) inductive and coinductive types.
Monday, 5:15 p.m.: Albert Visser (Utrecht): Interpretations in Philosophical Logic
    Abstract: In my talk, I will discuss the use of interpretations as a tool for comparing theories. The talk consists of  two parts. In the first half I will discuss some general issues.
    In the second half, I will illustrate a use of interpretations to study the Predicative Frege Hierarchy obtained by iterating  Predicative Comprehension plus Frege Function. (See for  a description John Burgess' book Fixing Frege.) Roughly, the result is that, modulo mutual interpretability, we get Robinson's Arithmetic Q plus all iterated consistency statements for Q, so Q+con(Q)+con(Q+con(Q))+.... The second level of this hierarchy, i.e., Q+con(Q), is mutually interpretable with Elementary Arithmetic. It is open whether there is a natural hierarchy of faster and faster functions corresponding to the iterated consistencies.
Model Theory (MT, organized by Françoise Delon and Ludomir Newelski):
Sunday, 2:00 p.m.: Amador Martin-Pizarro (HU Berlin): Some Thoughts on Bad Objects
    Abstract: The Algebraicity Conjecture states that a simple 2ω-categorical group can be seen as an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. This long-standing open conjecture belong to a wider conjecture, called "Principe du Nirvana", whose various specific instances have been refuted in the last decades. A specific programme in order to characterize such simple groups was described, which originally imposed the non-existence of certain objects called bad fields (describing an undesired configuration characterizing the Borel subgroups). We will discuss the relevance of bad fields and foster diverse links with other areas of algebraic geometry.
Sunday, 2:45 p.m.: Vera Djordjevic (Uppsala): Independence in Structures and Finite Satisfiability
    Abstract: An outline of ideas and methods concerning proving the finite submodel property by probabilistic means will be given. It appears like some notion of "sufficient independence" between definable relations is needed for a probabilistic argument to work out. We consider a notion, the n-embedding of types property, which has some relationship with the n-amalgamation property considered elsewhere. The main result about the finite submodel property applies to countably categorical simple structures with trivial forking, finite SU-rank and with the n-embedding of types property for every n.
Monday, 4:30 p.m.: Marcus Tressl (Regensburg): Super Real Closed Rings
    Abstract: A super real closed ring is a commutative ring A with unit together with functions FA: An → A for all n in N and every continuous function F: Rn → R, satisfying the composition rules (F∘(...,G,...))A = FA∘(...,GA,...). For example, every ring C(X) of continuous real-valued functions is a super real closed ring, where FC(X) is composition with F; also super real fields in the sense of Dales-Woodin at prime z-ideals are naturally equipped with a super real closed ring structure.
    I will overview the algebraic properties of super real closed rings, give an application to o-minimal structures expanding the real field and discuss the relation to C-rings (in the sense of Moerdijk-Reyes).
Monday, 5:15 p.m.: Ziv Shami (Tel Aviv): Countable Imaginary Simple Unidimensional Theories
    Abstract: We show that these theories are supersimple, provided that forking is witnessed by pseudo-low formulas (a formula is pseudo-low if forking by it is a type-definable relation). In particular, any low or 1-based countable imaginary simple unidimensional theory is supersimple.
Proof Complexity and Nonclassical Logics (PC, organized by Pavel Pudlák):
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.: Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto): Complexity Problems for Substructural Logics
    Abstract: Substructural logics such as relevance logics and linear logics are the most complex nonclassical propositional calculuses investigated to date.  They include undecidable systems, as well as logics that are decidable, but provably intractable.  This talk surveys some of the work in the area, and also lists some open questions.
Wednesday, 2:30 p.m.: Emil Jeřábek (Prague): Proof Systems for  Modal Logics
    Abstract: We discuss some issues in proof complexity of calculi for propositional modal and intermediate logics. We consider the usual Frege ("Hilbert style") proof systems, as well as their variants (extended Frege, substitution Frege) inspired by the classical case. We are interested in polynomial simulations, lower bounds, feasible disjunction properties, feasible partial conservativity results, and similar questions.
Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.: George Metcalfe (Vanderbilt): Substructural Fuzzy Logics
    Abstract: In this talk I will discuss a family of substructural logics defined by algebras based on the real unit interval [0,1]; well known examples being Lukasiewicz logic and Gödel-Dummett logic. Gentzen systems can often be obtained for these logics simply by extending sequent calculi for substructural logics like Linear Logic to the level of hypersequents. Moreover, the elimination of a special "density rule'' from proofs in such calculi can be used to show completeness results for both Gentzen and Hilbert systems for the logics. Indeed, in certain cases, conditions that guarantee cut-elimination for the calculi also guarantee density-elimination, providing a syntactic characterization of the logics from this family.
Logic and Analysis (L&A, organized by Itaï Ben Yaacov and Ulrich Kohlenbach):
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.: Julien Melleray (Urbana): Geometry of the Urysohn Space: A Model-theoretic Approach
    Abstract: The Urysohn space was built by Pavel Urysohn in 1924. Over the past 15 years or so, there has been growing interest in this space and its geometry. In the talk I'll try to explain how one can use model-theoretic methods (via the framework of model theory of metric structures) to tackle some problems involving the Urysohn space and its geometry. I'll discuss in particular the homogeneity properties of the space, and questions about conjugacy of isometries.
Wednesday, 2:45 p.m.: Philipp Gerhardy (Pittsburgh/Oslo): Local Stability of Ergodic Averages
    Abstract: 'Proof mining' is the subfield of mathematical logic that is concerned with the extraction of additional information from proofs - even ineffective proofs! - in mathematics and computer science. The main focus is on developing general (and feasible) methods to unwind the computational content of proofs and to apply these methods to real existing proofs. We present an application of proof mining in the field of ergodic theory. The Mean Ergodic Theorem states that a for a nonexpansive operator T on a Hilbert space H and for any f in H, the sequence of ergodic averages An f ≔ 1/n+1 ∑i≤0 Ti f converges to a limit. While a full rate of convergence is not possible, we present explicit rates for the classically equivalent statement that for any number-theoretic function K, the averages Am f are stable within ε in some interval [n,K(n)]. These computable bounds have been obtained by applying methods of proof mining to a standard textbook proof of the Mean Ergodic Theorem.
Thursday, 11:30 a.m.: Peter Hertling (München): Computability and Non-Computability Results for the Topological Entropy of Shift Spaces
    Abstract: The topological entropy, a numerical quantity assigned to a continuous function from a compact space to itself, is invariant under topological conjugacy and serves as a tool for classifying dynamical systems. Therefore, computing the topological entropy is an important problem in dynamical systems theory. We discuss several recent positive and negative results concerning the computability of the topological entropy, mostly of shift dynamical systems.
Thursday, 12:15 p.m.: Andreas Weiermann (Ghent): Analytic Combinatorics of the Transfinite
    Abstract: Roughly speaking, Analytic Combinatorics (AC) is the art of counting using Cauchy's integral formula. Typically (following Flajolet et al.) AC is used for investigations on the average case analysis of algorithms. In this talk we will show how to apply AC to systems of ordinal notations (for relatively small ordinals). We explain surprising connections to the theory of partitions as studied, for example, by Hardy and Ramanujan.
    The resulting information is used for proving logical limit laws (joint work with Alan R. Woods) and for classifying phase transition thresholds for Gödel incompleteness.
Set Theory (ST, organized by Ilijas Farah and Joel Hamkins):
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.: Matteo Viale (Vienna): The Constructible Universe for the Anti-foundation Axiom System ZFA
    Abstract: Aczel [1], and independently Forti and Honsel [2], introduced a strengthening of the axiom of foundation asserting the existence of a unique transitive collapse for every binary relation which is a set. The first order axiomatization of set theory with foundation replaced by this axiom is currently named in the literature ZFA. Forti and Honsel [3] also show that if M and N are transitive models of ZFA such that M∩WF = N∩WF, then M=N (where WF is the definable class of well-founded sets). We exploit this idea to show that there are natural Gödel operations which are absolute for the theory ZFA such that the smallest transitive class which is closed under these Gödel operation is the "constructible" universe of the theory ZFA. The results that we present appeared in [4].
[1] Peter Aczel, "Non well-founded set theories", CSLI lecture notes 14, CSLI publications, 1988, Stanford
[2] Marco Forti, Furio Honsel, "Set Theory with free construction principles", Annali Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze, volume 10, 1983, pp. 493-522
[3]  Marco Forti, Furio Honsel, "Axiom of Choice and free construction principles I", Bull. Soc. Math. Belg.,volume 36(B), 1984, pp. 69-79
[4] Matteo Viale, "The cumulative hierachy and the constructible universe of ZFA", Math. Log. Quart., volume 50(1), 2004, pp. 99-103

Wednesday, 2:30 p.m.: Gunter Fuchs (Münster): Maximality Principles for Closed Forcings
    Abstract: I am going to talk about the modifications of the maximality principles, which were originally introduced by Joel Hamkins, that result from restricting them to subclasses of <κ-closed forcings. The subclasses I consider are the entire class of <κ-closed forcings, the <κ-directed closed forcings and the collapses to κ. So for example, the maximality principle for <κ-closed forcings says that any statement that can be forced to be true by a <κ-closed poset in such a way that it remains true in any further generic extension by <κ-closed forcing, is already true. The talk will center around the following aspects: Consistency of the principles, the compatibility with large cardinal properties of κ, the relationships between the different versions of the principle, outright consequences, the possibilities of combining them in the sense that they hold at many regular κ at the same time, and the limitations of the extent to which they may be combined.
Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.: Lionel Nguyen Van Thé (Calgary): The Urysohn sphere is oscillation stable (joint with Jordi López Abad, Paris 7, and Norbert Sauer, Calgary)
    Abstract: In 1994, Odell et Schlumprecht built a uniformly continuous map from the unit sphere of the Hilbert space into the unit interval and which does not stabilize on any isometric copy of the sphere. This result allowed to show that the Hilbert space has a property known as 'distortion'. The purpose of the present talk is to show that this situation is different when working with another remarkable metric space sharing many common features with the Hilbert sphere: the Urysohn sphere.
Thursday, 11:30 a.m.: Victoria Gitman (City University of New York): Scott's Problem For Proper Scott Sets
    Abstract: Given a model of Peano Arithmetic (PA), define its "standard system" to  be the collection of subsets of the natural numbers that arise as intersections of the definable sets of the model with its standard part. In 1962, Scott observed that standard systems satisfy certain basic computable theoretic and set theoretic properties. A collection of subsets of the natural numbers having these properties came to be known as a "Scott set". As a partial converse, Scott showed that countable Scott sets are exactly the "countable" standard systems and in 1982, Knight and Nadel extended his result to standard systems of size ω1. The question of whether Scott sets are exactly the standard systems of models of PA came to be known as "Scott's problem". I will introduce the history of Scott's Problem and talk about my results for standard systems of size ω2, which were obtained using forcing constructions with models of PA together with the Proper Forcing Axiom. In particular, I will define the notion of a proper Scott set and show under PFA that every proper arithmetically closed Scott is the standard system of a model of PA. I will also focus on the set theoretic questions (and answers) involving the existence of proper Scott sets.
Thursday, 12:00 noon: Márton Elekes (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Partitioning κ-fold Covers into κ Many Subcovers
    Abstract: Motivated by a question of A. Hajnal we investigate the following set of problems. Let X be a set, κ a cardinal number, and H a family that covers each x in X at least κ times. Under what assumptions can we decompose H into κ many subcovers? Equivalently, under what assumptions can we colour H by κ many colours so that for each x in X and each colour c there exists H in H of colour c containing x?
    The assumptions we make can be, e.g., that H consists of open, closed, compact, convex sets, or polytopes in Rn, or intervals in a linearly ordered set, or we can make various restrictions on the cardinality of X, H, or elements of H.
    Besides numerous positive and negative results, many questions turn out to be independent of the axioms of set theory.
    The speaker's research was partially supported by OTKA grants no. 49786, 61600, F43620 and the Öveges Project of NKTH and KPI.
    This is a joint work with T. Mátrai and L. Soukup.
Thursday, 12:30 p.m.: Asger Törnquist (Toronto): Classifying Measure Preserving Actions Up to Conjugacy and Orbit Equivalence
    Abstract: Extending a well-known theorem by Foreman and Weiss we show: If H is an infinite subgroup of a discrete countable group G, then the measure preserving actions of H that can be extended to G cannot be classified by countable structures. As a consequence, the measure preserving actions of a countable group with the relative property (T) cannot be classified up to orbit equivalence by countable structures.
Program Committee:
Alessandro Andretta (Torino)
Françoise Delon (Paris 7)
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt)
Steffen Lempp, Chair (Madison)
Penelope Maddy (Irvine)
Jerzy Marcinkowski (Wrocław)
Ludomir Newelski (Wrocław)
Andrew Pitts (Cambridge)
Pavel Pudlák (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Sławomir Solecki (Urbana)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore)
Göran Sundholm (Leiden)

Prepared by Steffen Lempp (@math.wisc.edu">lemppmath.wisc.edu)