Conference on Mathematical Logic and Set Theory

Chennai (India), 15-17 August 2010

Satellite Conference of the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad (India)

In the successful tradition of logic satellite meetings at recent ICMs, we shall hold a satellite conference on mathematical logic and set theory in India to provide a specialized venue for logicians and set theorists connected with ICM 2010 in Hyderabad. The conference will be co-hosted by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Chennai Mathematical Institute on behalf of the Association for Logic in India. The scope of the intended meeting is all of mathematical logic, including its areas of application (theoretical computer science, algebraic logic and others).

The meeting will be held in Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is located about 700 km south of Hyderabad, the location of the ICM. We have reserved the 18 August 2010 between our meeting and the ICM as a travel day. There are overnight train connections between Chennai and Hyderabad (about 12-13 hours) for 300-1900 rupees (between 4 and 28 €), depending on the class of travel. Seven different airlines (Indian Airlines, IndiGo, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, Paramount, Spice Jet, and Air India Express) offer direct flight connections to Hyderabad.

We plan to have a full programme on 15 August and 17 August including a conference dinner after the conference. On 16 August, we'll have a half-day programme plus an organized excursion.

In addition to talks of the keynote speakers, we intend to accept a number of short presentations to allow junior researchers to present their material at our conference. We'll send out a Call for Abstracts later this year.

Keynote Speakers (partial list).

Joan Bagaria ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)	Rob Goldblatt Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand	Menachem Magidor Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
Justin T. Moore Cornell University Ithaca NY, United States of America	Anand Pillay University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom	Andre Nies University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
Theodore A. Slaman University of California Berkeley CA, United States of America	Sergei Starchenko University of Notre Dame South Bend IN, United States of America	Wolfgang Thomas Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen Aachen, Germany
W. Hugh Woodin University of California Berkeley CA, United States of America

Programme Committee.

Mohua Banerjee (Kanpur, India), Elizabeth Bouscaren (Paris, France), Sam Buss (San Diego CA, United States of America), S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, United Kingdom), Sy David Friedman (Vienna, Austria), Mai Gehrke (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Valentin Goranko (Lyngby, Denmark), Kamal Lodaya (Chennai, India), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), R. Ramanujam (Chennai, India), Jouko Väänänen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Helsinki, Finland).

Sponsors.

INFTY: New frontiers of infinity: mathematical, philosophical, and computational prospects Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG)