The Evelyn Nelson Lectures

2022-2023 Lecture
Friday January 27th
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Hamilton Hall 305

Anush Tserunyan
McGill University

Title of Talk: A descriptive set theorist's approach to pointwise ergodic theorems

Evelyn M. Nelson

1943 - 1987

Dr. Evelyn Nelson was a member of the Department at the time of her death in 1987. In her memory and in recognition of her contributions to the University and the Mathematical Community, the Department, with the generous support of her many friends and colleagues, established the Evelyn Nelson Lecture Series. This lecture series has focused on matters relating to the Foundations of Mathematics.

Past Nelson Lectures:

2021-2022	Chris Miller Ohio State	Tameness and metric dimensions in expansions of the real field
2020-2021	Ehud Hrushovski	On the logic of finite fields (with an additive character.)
2019-2020	Dragos Ghioca University of British Columbia	Invariant varieties under the action of one-variable polynomials
2018-2019	Maryanthe Malliaris University of Chicago	Model theory and ultraproducts
2017-2018	Julia Gordon UBC and Cornell	Uniform integration
2016-2017	Ross Willard Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo	Finiteness conditions on the equational laws of finite algebraic structures
2015-2016	Philipp Hieronymi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Dimensional concordance and logical tameness
2014-2015	Jaroslav Nesetril Charles University	Homomorphisms, Ramsey theory and structural limits
2013-2014	Ilijas Farah York University	Logic and the classification of C-algebras*
2012–2013	Philipp Habegger Princeton Univeristy and Frankfurt	Non-Archimedean approximations by special points
2011–2012	Michael Singer North Carolina State University	Factorization of partial differential operators and differential algebraic groups
2010–2011	Sergei Starchenko Notre Dame University	O-minimality and Diophantine geometry
2009–2010	Alasdair Urquhart University of Toronto	Von Neumann, Godel and complexity theory
2008–2009	Alex Wilkie Manchester University	Model theory and analytic continuation for implicitly defined functions
2007–2008	Phokion Kolaitis IBM Almaden Research Center	Constraint satisfaction, complexity, and logic
2006–2007	Julia Knight Notre Dame	Comparing classes of structures
2005–2006	Michael Shub University of Toronto	Computing over the real and complex numbers
2004–2005	Thomas Scanlon University of California, Berkeley	A logical perspective on difference equations
2003–2004	Ya'acov Peterzil Haifa	Definable groups in o-minimal structures
2002–2003	Alexander Kechris California Institute of Technology	Applications of ergodic theory to set theory
2001–2002	Patrick Speissegger University of Wisconsin	Constructing o-minimal structures
2000–2001	Dugald Macpherson University of Leeds	Reconstructing models from their automorphism groups
1999–2000	Toni Pitassi University of Arizona	A new proof of the weak pigeonhole principle
1998–1999	Olga Kharlampovich McGill University	Equations and first-order formulas over free and fully residually free groups
1996–1997	Chris Laskowski University of Maryland	What do the law of large numbers, PAC learning, neural networks and model theory have in common?
1994–1995	Askold Khovanskii University of Toronto	Newton polyhedra
1994–1995	Dave Marker University of Illinois, Chicago	Model theory and exponentiation
1993–1994	Lou van den Dries University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Logic and local fields
1992–1993	Ralph McKenzie University of California, Berkeley	Equations, lattices and structure: sixty years of research in universal algebra
1991–1992	Angus Macintyre University of Oxford	Model theory of analytic functions

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