This one is incredible. No beard, and I do not look yet like an orca.
I’m in the last row, sort of in the middle. Xavier Caicedo is on the second row, to the left. My friend Juan Carlos Rivera is on the last row as well. I should probably stop now.
This one is incredible. No beard, and I do not look yet like an orca.
I’m in the last row, sort of in the middle. Xavier Caicedo is on the second row, to the left. My friend Juan Carlos Rivera is on the last row as well. I should probably stop now.
I ran into this picture a few days ago, when looking at the old photos from the Martin Conference. I posted here the group picture from that conference. John Steel should be posting the other pictures soon (well, I’ve been waiting since 2001, so we’ll see), or I may post them if that ends up not happening.
This one is the conference photo from the Logic Colloquium 2000. The website has many other pictures available as well. It was an interesting meeting.
Paris, July 23 – 31, 2000. The meeting site will be the Sorbonne, where David Hilbert presented his famous list of problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians in August 1900.
As I recall, at the opening we listened to a recording of part of Hilbert’s address, including his Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.
I like this picture very much. You can see me behind Joel Hamkins, in what seems to be row eight. (I believe I met Joel and his wife, Barbara Gail Montero, at this conference.) Paul Larson still has hair.
This week (May 20-May 24) I am in Palo Alto, at the American Institute of Mathematics, for the third year of a SQuaRE meeting on Descriptive aspects of Inner model theory. The previous two meetings are mentioned here and here. See also this post on some of our results.
This time two other SQuaRE meetings are happening simultaneously, one on the Possible shape of the numerical ranges for certain classes of matrices, and one on Singular cardinal combinatorics. Here you have the two set theory-related groups:
From left to right: Menachem Magidor, Paul Larson, Grigor Sargsyan, John Steel, Martin Zeman, me, Assaf Rinot, Dima Sinapova, James Cummings, Sy Friedman, and Ralf Schindler.
Martin Conference, Berkeley, May 27-28, 2001.
(If someone has a version in higher resolution, or pictures of the conference, please contact John Steel, or myself.)
BEST 2013 and NSF funded travel awards – Announcement 3
DATES: June 16 – 19, 2013
PLACE: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Please consult the conference webpage.
The 20-th meeting of BEST will be hosted at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as a AAAS-PD symposium during June 16 (Sunday) – June 19 (Wednesday), 2013. It is organized by Liljana Babinkostova, Andrés Caicedo, Sam Coskey and Marion Scheepers.
Contributed and invited talks will be held on Monday, Tuesday and possibly Wednesday at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
BEST PLENARY SPEAKERS: The four invited plenary speakers are:
In addition to these four plenary talks, the program has ten reserved speaking slots for students, four reserved slots for post-docs and 2 reserved slots for pre-tenure tenure track faculty, and several slots for contributed talks.
TRAVEL AWARDS: Graduate students speakers, post-doc speakers and pre-tenure tenure track speakers are strongly encouraged to apply for to BEST for an NSF-funded travel award. The travel expenses (airfare and lodging) of awarded speakers will be reimbursed up to the $700 maximum amount of the award, and registration fees of awardees will be reimbursed.
STUDENT SPEAKERS: BEST seeks to promote student participation in the conference via short (20 minute) presentations. To this end there are ten (10) NSF funded BEST travel awards available for students. To apply for one of these awards,
In addition to the BEST travel awards, up to 20 travel awards of up to $150 each are also available from the AAAS-PD to help students (including students participating in BEST) defray travel expenses to participate in the AAAS-PD annual meeting.
Student speakers are also eligible for a AAAS-PD award of excellence for their presentation at BEST 20. Winners of these awards will be announced at the AAAS-PD banquet on June 18, 2013. Student participants will be guests at this banquet.
POST-DOC and PRE-TENURE TENURE TRACK SPEAKERS: BEST also seeks to be a forum for early career set theoretic scholars. In particular there are four (4) NSF funded BEST travel awards available for post-docs, and two (2) NSF funded BEST travel awards available for pre-tenure tenure track faculty. To apply for one of these awards,
CONTRIBUTED TALKS: The BEST schedule will also have a number of slots for 25 minute contributed talks. Anyone wishing to speak at BEST 20 should submit an abstract as soon as possible (prior to June 10) at the abstract submission site. It is strongly recommended to also contact one of the organizers as soon as possible to indicate interest/intention in presenting a talk at BEST 20.
Important deadlines:
DEADLINE 1: REGISTRATION: Please consult the registration page. Early registration ends May 31. After that only on-site registration will be possible. Registration fees are dependent on date of registration. We kindly request that tenure track mathematicians planning to participate in BEST 20 consider acting as judges for the student presentations. The registration form has a place where willingness to act as a judge can be indicated. There are also a number of excursions available that can be indicated on the registration form. Also please consider attending the award banquet – meal choices are available on the registration form.
DEADLINE 2: ABSTRACTS: Atlas Conferences, Inc. is providing abstract services for BEST 20. Abstracts submitted by April 24 will appear in the proceedings of the annual conference of the AAAS-PD. The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 10. To submit an abstract, follow this link.
LODGING: Las Vegas offers many lodging options. Please see the lodging page on the conference website for lodging suggestions by the AAAS-PD.
Because of this, I decided to take a look at Cardinal Algebras, a monograph by Alfred Tarski, né Alfred Teitelbaum, published by Oxford University Press in 1949.
Here is the closing paragraph of the Preface:
It would be impossible for me to conclude this introduction without mentioning one more name—that of Adolf Lindenbaum, a former student and colleague of mine at the University of Warsaw. My close friend and collaborator for many years, he took a very active part in the earlier stages of the research which resulted in the present work, and the few references to his contribution that will be found in the book can hardly convey an adequate idea of the extent of my indebtedness. The wave of organized totalitarian barbarism engulfed this man of unusual intelligence and great talent—as it did millions of others.
Adolf Lindenbaum was killed by the Gestapo in 1941.