ALGEBRA AND LOGIC SEMINAR
of the
Mathematical Sciences Group
University of Saskatchewan
106 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E6, Canada
Phone: (306) 966-6081 - Fax: (306) 966-6086

PAST EVENTS 2001-2002

September 6 and 11, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Jaka Cimpric (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Orderings of higher level on domains with involution


September 13, 18 and 20, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Murray Marshall (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Approximating positive polynomials by sums of squares


September 25, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Niels Schwartz (Passau, Germany)

gave a talk on

Positive polynomials in the plane


September 27, October 2 and 4, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

The Zariski space of an algebraic function field


October 18 and 23, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Jaka Cimpric (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Orderings of higher level on fields


October 30 and November 1, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Lexicographic Chains: isomorphism invariants


November 6 and 8, 2001, 10:00 am

Trevor Green (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé equivalence of linear orderings


November 13 and 15, 2001, 10:00 am

Igor Klep (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Nash functions


November 20, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor Jonathon Funk (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

The hyperbolic linear order of a free group

November 22, 2001, 10:00 am

Professor David Cowan (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé games on rational languages


November 27, 2001, 10:00 am

Trevor Green (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

How many chains in a lexicographic product?


November 29, 2001, 10:00 am

Dr. Alexander Nenashev (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

K1 for an exact category


January 17, 2002, 2:30 pm

Dejan Veluscek (visiting Saskatoon for a month)

gave a talk on

Product Level of skew fields


January 31, 2002, 2:30 pm

Professor Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

Doubly transitive lexicographic powers


February 7 and February 14, 2002

Igor Klep (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

Yet another representation theorem for p.o. rings


Thursday, March 7, 14 and 28, 2002

Dr. Vincent Astier (Dublin)

gave talks on

Positive primitive formulas and spaces of orderings


Tuesday, March 12 and 19, April 2, 9 and 23, 2002

Dr. Marcus Tressl (Regensburg)

gave talks on

Cuts in o-minimal structures


Tuesday, March 18, 2002

Professor Max Dickmann (Paris)

gave a talk on

Algebraic K-Theory of special groups


Thursday, March 21, 2002

Professor Max Dickmann (Paris)

gave a talk on

Elementary properties of special group morphisms


Monday, March 25, 2002

Professor Jaka Cimpric (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

Solution of a problem of Tom Craven about *-orderings


Thursday, April 4 and 11, 2002, 2:30 pm

Trevor Green (Saskatoon)

gave talks on

A pair of non-isomorphic lexicographic chains


Thursday, April 11, 2002

Dr. Marcus Tressl (Regensburg)

gave a talk on

Types


Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 1 pm

Professor Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

Valuation theory of cuts


Tuesday, April 16, and Thursday, April 18, 2002, 2:30 pm

Professor Murray Marshall (Saskatoon)

gave a talk on

Local-global principles for pp-formulas in spaces of orderings


Thursday, April 18, 2002, 1 pm

Dr. Marcus Tressl (Regensburg)

gave a talk on

Spaces of Types and Spectral Spaces


Monday, May 6 at 4 - 5:30 pm,
Tuesday May 7 at 10 - 11:30 am and 2 - 3:30 pm,
Wednesday May 8 at 10 - 11:30 am

Professor Deirdre Haskell (McMaster)

gave a series of talks on

Elimination of imaginaries in algebraically closed valued fields

For the summer of 2002, the Algebra and Logic Seminar was replaced by the

Cryptography & Coding Theory Student Seminar

Algebra and Logic Seminar: Forthcoming Events

Algebra and Logic Seminar - Past Events:
2000-2001 + 2002-2003 + 2003-2004 + 2004-2005 + 2005-2006

Past talks of our algebra and logic group guests 1997 - 2001

Cryptography & Coding Theory Student Seminar

Centre for Algebra, Logic and Computation

The Valuation Theory Home Page

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