Set Theory Meeting in Amsterdam in August 2007

 

Date: August 13th (Mon.)

Place: P-017 (The Euclides building )


Time schedule:
10:00-10:30 Coffee and cookies

10:30-11.30 Peter Koepke, "Sets in Prikry Extensions"

11:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Joel David Hamkins , "There is no nontrivial elementary embedding from one ground model to another"

14:00-14:15 Break

14:15-15:15 Luca Motto Ros , "A dichotomy theorem for Borel reducibilities"

15:15-15:30 Break

15:30-16:30 Brian Semmes , "Jayne-Rogers with Games"

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-17:45 Ali Enayat, "In praise of nonstandard models"

17:45-18:00 Break

18:00-18:45 Philip Welch, TBA


Abstracts:
1. Peter Koepke
Title "Sets in Prikry Extensions"
Abstract. Prikry forcing turns a measurable cardinal $\kappa$ into a singular cardinal by generically adjoining an $\omega$-sequence $C=\{c_0,c_1,\dots\}$ cofinal in $\kappa$.
We show that every subset $x\subseteq\kappa$ in the Prikry extension $V[C]$ of the ground model $V$ is {\it equiconstructible} with some $D\subseteq C$ over $V$, i.e., $x$ is constructible from parameters in $V\cup\{D\}$ and $D$ is constructible from parameters in $V\cup\{x\}$. This supports the open conjecture that every intermediate transitive model $N$, $V \subseteq N \subseteq V[C]$ is of the form $N=V[D]$ for some $D \subseteq C$. (joint work with Vladimir Kanovei,
Moscow)

2. Joel David Hamkins
Title "There is no nontrivial elementary embedding from one ground model to another"
Abstract. Kunen's famous inconsistency theorem shows that there is no nontrivial elementary embedding j:V to V. This was extended by Woodin to show that there is no nontrivial elementary embedding from any forcing extension V[G] to V. (Another way to say the same thing is that if j:V to M, then V is not a forcing extension of M.) I will speak on generalizations ruling out j:V to V[G], and also j:M to N, whenever M and N are ground models of a common forcing extension, in which j is a class. Time permitting, I will also show there is no j:V to HOD and no j:HOD to V.

3. Luca Motto Ros
Title "A dichotomy theorem for Borel reducibilities"
Abstract. We will survey some recent developments in the theory of the general reducibilities for sets of reals, and present a dichotomy theorem which essentially says that almost every Borel set of reductions induce a degree-structure which is isomorphic either to the Lipschitz or to the Wadge one.

4. Brian Semmes
Title "Jayne-Rogers with Games"
Abstract. In this talk I will sketch a game-theoretic proof of the Jayne-Rogers theorem.

5. Ali Enayat
Title "In praise of nonstandard models"
Abstract. For many set theorists, nonstandard models of ZF are pathological and devoid of serious mathematical interest. To correct this view, I will present a variety of old and new results to convey the beauty and mystery of nonstandard models.

 6. Philip Welch

TBA


Direction: To get to the Euclides building, please refer to this website.

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