A one-day conference in the series Set theory and its neighbours was held on Friday, 20th April 2007 at the Department of Mathematics, University College London, 25 Gordon Street, London, WC1.
Notes from all of the talks
are now available as pdf files from the links below. (Many thanks to the
speakers for providing them so willingly.)
The speakers at the meeting were:
Braids, zeta, indiscernibles and beyond
Abstract:
The subject of independence results is undergoing a new transformation.
Apart from unprovable statements that come from traditional sources
(Ramsey Theory and WQO Theory), many new results have sprung recently
that connect the subject with other parts of mathematics.
I shall talk about new unprovable statements that deal with braid groups,
with the Riemann zeta-function, with certain p-adic functions and
about applications of universality phenomena and diophantine
approximation.
We will give a brief history of some of the most important results in
Wadge's theory and present a very general approach to the study of various notions
of reducibility on the Baire space.
Return to the Set theory and its neighbours homepage for information, including slides from the talks and related preprints, about the previous meetings.
Last updated on 31st May 2007, Charles Morgan