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MT Postdoc Seminar: Connections between Ramsey Theory and Model Theory. March 24, 2014 (10:00 AM PDT - 11:00 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Cameron Hill (Wesleyan University)
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One of the great insights of model theory is the observation that very mundane-looking "combinatorial configurations" carry a huge amount of geometric information about a structure. In this talk, I will explain what we mean by "combinatorial configuration," and then I will sketch out how configurations can be "smoothed out" to yield Ramsey classes, which can themselves be analyzed using model-theoretic tools. I will also discuss the kinds of model-theoretic dividing lines that can be defined just through the interaction of structures with Ramsey classes.

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