ALGEBRA AND LOGIC SEMINAR
of the
Research Unit "Algebra and Logic"
at the College of Arts and Science
106 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E6, Canada
Phone: (306) 966-6081 - Fax: (306) 966-6086

The Algebra and Logic Seminar is organized by the Research Unit "Algebra and Logic"

NEXT TALKS



Thursday, January 19 and Thursday, January 26, 10:00 am, McLean Hall 242.2, 2006:

Pawel Gladki (CALC)

will talk on

Spaces of orderings of rational conics



Thursday, 10:00 am, McLean Hall 242.2, February 2, 2006:

Bogdan Lataianu (CALC)

will talk on

Residual transcendental extensions of valuations from K to K(x)



Tuesday, 10:00 am, McLean Hall 242.2, April 4, 2006:

Krzysztof Kurdyka (Universite de Savoie, France)

will talk on

Arc-symmetric semialgebraic sets



Tuesday, 2:00 pm, McLean Hall 242.2, April 25, 2006:

Andreas Fischer (CALC)

will talk on

Extending continuous piecewise polynomial functions in two variables



Thursday, 2:00 pm, McLean Hall 242.2, April 27, 2006:

Michel Vaquie (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

will talk on

Extending a valuation and the Newton polygon



Friday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 17, 2:00 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Andreas Fischer (CALC)

will talk on

Introduction to o-minimal geometry



Thursday, June 8, 2:00 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Igor Klep (Ljubljana University)

will talk on

Tarski and central extensions of skew fields



Thursday, June 15, 2:00 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Igor Klep (Ljubljana University)

will talk on

Positivity and sums of hermitian squares



Thursday, June 22, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Hader Abd El-Rahman El-Gendy (Mansoura University Egypt)

will talk on

Some Problems in Non-Associative Algebras



Thursday, June 29, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Mohamed El Bachraoui (University Ifrane, Morocco)

will talk on

A lower bound for the number of primes in [2n,3n]



Thursday, July 6, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, 2006:

Andreas Fischer (CALC)

will talk on

Definable smoothing of Lipschitz continuous functions


PREVIOUS TALKS 2004-2005


Wednesday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, September 22, September 29, October 6, 2004:

Murray Marshall (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Representation of non-negative polynomials having finitely many zeros



Wednesday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, October 13, October 20, November 3, 2004:

Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Extensions of valuations to rational function fields



Wednesday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, November 10, 2004:

Danielle Gondard (University of Paris 6)

will talk on

Number of connected components of real varieties and R-places



Wednesday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, November 17, November 31, December 8, 2004:

Ulrich Hermisson (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Delone sets of finite type



Friday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, January 14, January 21, 2005:

Antongiulio Fornasiero (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Truncation closed embeddings of Henselian fields in fields of power series



Friday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, January 28, 2005:

Ulrich Hermisson (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Model theory of Delone sets of finite type



Friday, 2:30 pm, Arts 214, February 4, 2005:

Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Dense subfields and integer parts



Monday, 2:30 pm, Arts 101, February 7, 2005:

Niels Schwartz (University of Passau)

will talk on

Convex extensions of partially ordered rings



Friday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, February 11, 2005:

Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Dense subfields and integer parts



Friday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, February 25, 2005:

Salma Kuhlmann (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

The G-invariant moment problem



Friday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, March 4, 2005:

Jonathan Lee (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Valuation bases for (generalized) algebraic Puiseux series fields



Thursday, 2:30 pm, Arts 105, March 31, 2005:

Jacob Cimpric (University Ljubljana)

will talk on

Schmuedgen's Strict Positivstellensatz for the Weyl Algebra



Monday, 2:30 pm, Arts 202, April 4, 2005:

William Helton (University of California at San Diego)

will talk on

Engineering Motivation and Noncommutative Convexity



Monday, 4:00 pm, Arts 202, April 4, 2005:

Mihai Putinar (University of California at Santa Barbara)

will talk on

Positivstellensatze in a free *-algebra



Wednesday, 2:30 pm, McLean Hall 242.1, April 6, 2005:

Igor Klep (University Konstanz)

will talk on

Orderings of higher level on skew fields and central extensions



Friday, 3:30 pm, 242.1 McLean Hall, July 15, 2005:

Jonathan Funk

will talk on

Quasicomponents for toposes



Thursday, 10:00 am, 242.1 McLean Hall, August 25, 2005:

Jonathan Lee (Stanford)

will talk on

Valuation bases for fields of algebraic series, Part I



Thursday, 3:00 pm, 242.1 McLean Hall, August 30, 2005:

Jonathan Lee (Stanford)

will talk on

Valuation bases for fields of algebraic series, Part II


Seminar notes on Hardy Fields

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