Models, Logics and Higher-Dimensional Categories. A Tribute to the Work of Mihaly Makkai

June 18-20, 2009

Program

 

Thursday, June 18, 2009


09:00 - 17:00
"Makkai" Workshop

http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/seminar/mf-wkshop.html
Room TBA, Burnside Hall, McGill University
18:00
Welcoming Reception & Registration
Room 6245

 

Friday, June 19, 2009

08:30 - 08:45
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

08:45 - 09:00
Welcoming addresses
09:00 - 09:55
Bradd Hart
(McMaster University)
Conceptual completeness in continuous logic: continuous imaginaries
Abstract
10:00 - 10:55
Charles Steinhorn
(Vassar College)
Linear orders in o-minimal structures with an application to economics
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:25
Victor Harnik
(University of Haifa)
Model theory vs. categorical logic: two approaches to pretopos completion (a.k.a. $T^{eq}$)
Abstract

12:30 - 14:15
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:15 - 15:10
Julia F. Knight
(University of Notre-Dame)
Computable structures of high Scott rank
Abstract
15:15 - 16:10
Anand Pillay
(University of Leeds)
Stability and the free group
16:15 - 16:45
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:45 - 17:40
Hal Kierstead
(Arizona State University)
Coloring number and on-line Ramsey theory for graphs and hypergraphs
Abstract
17:45 - 17:55
TBA

19:00
Banquet
<b> salut to you! </b>
Room Café des beaux- arts

 

Saturday, June 20, 2009

08:45 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:55
André Joyal
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
The first order logic of higher structures
10:00 - 10:55
Marek Zawadowski
(University of Warsaw)
Opetopic sets in lax monoidal fibrations
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:25
Gonzalo E. Reyes
(Université de Montréal)
A derivation of Einstein’s vacuum field equations
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:55
Robert Paré
(Dalhousie University)
First Order Theories as Double Lawvere Theories
Abstract
15:00 - 15:40
Michael Barr
(McGill University)
A duality for certain module categories
Abstract
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:15 - 16:55
Joachim Lambek
(McGill University )
The Lorentz category in special relativity
17:00 - 17:40
François Lamarche
(Loria & INRIA Nancy - Grand Est)
A new homotopy-theoretic interpretation of Martin-Löf's identity type
Abstract
17:45
Closure of the workshop