Conference in honor of Saharon Shelah’s 80th birthday
July 14 and 15, 2025, at TU Wien, Austria
No satisfaction guaranteed.
FB8 Set Theory Group
This conference is preceeded by the Logic Colloquium and followed by the VOrST.
Schedule
See also the Google calendar, and the version with abstracts.
| Monday July 14: Model Theory Day | ||
| 08:30–09:10 | Registration (at seminar room) | |
| 09:20–09:50 | Boris Zilber | TBA |
| 10:00–10:30 | Itay Kaplan | Existence over a predicate |
| 10:30–11:10 | Coffee break (at lecture hall) | |
| 11:10–11:40 | Artem Chernikov | Externally definable groups |
| 11:50–12:20 | Chris Laskowski | Equivalents of NOTOP |
| (break) | ||
| 13:40–14:10 | John Baldwin | When is an $\aleph_1$-categorical $L_{\omega_1,\omega}$-sentence $\omega$-stable? |
| 14:20–14:35 | Gregory Cherlin | Laudatio |
| 14:40–15:10 | Saharon Shelah | |
| 15:10–15:50 | Coffee break (at lecture hall) | |
| 15:50–16:20 | Pierre Simon | On expansions of linear orders and NIP |
| 16:30–17:00 | Thomas Scanlon | Tilting as a bi-interpretation |
| 17:10–17:40 | Maryanthe Malliaris | TBA |
| 18:00–21:00 | Conference dinner (invitation only) | |
| Tuesday July 15: Set Theory Day | ||
| 09:20–09:50 | Mohammad Golshani | Questions that haunt my nights, while Shelah might answer by dawn |
| 10:00–10:30 | Gianluca Paolini | Classifications problems in abelian group theory |
| 10:30–11:10 | Coffee break (at lecture hall) | |
| 11:10–11:25 | Tomek Bartoszynski | Laudatio |
| 11:30–12:00 | Saharon Shelah | |
| (break) | ||
| 13:20–13:50 | Assaf Rinot | Marginalia to [Sh:365] |
| 14:00–14:30 | Moti Gitik | TBA |
| 14:40–15:10 | Stevo Todorcevic | TBA |
| 15:10–15:50 | Coffee break (at lecture hall) | |
| 15:50–16:20 | Jerome Keisler | Probability theory with continuous model theory |
| 16:30–17:00 | Justin Moore | The second to last word on the consistency of the five element basis for uncountable linear orders |
| 17:10–17:40 | Matt Foreman | TBA |
Locations (cf list of rooms)
With the exception of Tuesday morning (talks and coffee break), everything happens in the TU Freihaus.
| Talks: | |
| Coffee breaks: (10:30 and 15:10) |
Same as talks. |
| Additional coffee: | Most of the times there should be coffee, juice and cookies in the Seminarraum 05 (green, 5th floor). |
| Registration: |
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| Conference dinner: (by invitation only) |
Cafe Schrödinger |
| Workspace: |
The following rooms (all with blackboards) are available for discussions or collaboration (contact an organizer if you find the rooms locked):
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Speaker
- John Baldwin (U. of Illinois Chicago, USA)
- Tomek Bartoszyński (NSF, USA)
- Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers U., USA)
- Artem Chernikov (U. of Maryland, USA)
- Matt Foreman (UC Irvine, USA)
- Moti Gitik (Tel Aviv U., Israel)
- Mohammad Golshani (IPM, Iran)
- Itay Kaplan (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Jerome Keisler (remote via video link) (U. of Wisconsin, USA)
- Chris Laskowski (U. of Maryland, USA)
- Menachem Magidor (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Maryanthe Malliaris (U. of Chicago, USA)
- Justin Moore (Cornell U., USA)
- Gianluca Paolini (U. of Turin, Italy)
- Assaf Rinot (Bar-Ilan U., Israel)
- Thomas Scanlon (UC Berkeley, USA)
- Saharon Shelah (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel and Rutgers U., USA)
- Pierre Simon
- Stevo Todorcevic (U. of Toronto, Canada)
- Boris Zilber (Oxford, UK)
List of participants
- Juan Aguilera (TU Wien, Austria)
- Serhii Bardyla (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Fernando Barrera (TU Wien, Austria)
- Ainur Basheyeva (L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan)
- Martin Bays (Oxford University, UK)
- Jeffrey Bergfalk (University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Samuel Braunfeld (Charles University, Czechia)
- Jörg Brendle (Kobe University, Japan)
- Andrew Brooke-Taylor (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
- Miguel A. Cardona (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Davide Carolillo (University of Turin, Italy)
- Nick Chapman (TU Wien, Austria)
- David Chodounsky (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Jakub Cieplechowicz (University of Wrocław, Poland)
- Aleksander Cieślak (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland)
- Gustavo Cipagauta (National University of Colombia)
- Sam Corson (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
- Alvaro Diaz Ramos (Stanford University, USA)
- Vincenzo Dimonte (University of Udine, Italy)
- Natasha Dobrinen (University of Notre Dame, USA)
- Mirna Dzamonja (by-name Logique Consult)
- Márton Elekes (Rényi Institute and Eötvös University, Hungary)
- Monroe Eskew (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Darien Farnham (University of Virginia)
- Roman Feller (TU Wien, Austria)
- Vera Fischer (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Sakaé Fuchino (Kobe University, Japan)
- Curial Gallart Rodríguez (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Mariami Gamsakhurdia (TU Wien, Austria)
- Takehiko Gappo (TU Wien, Austria)
- Allen Gehret (Czech Technical University)
- Michał Godziszewski (University of Lodz, Poland)
- Martin Goldstern (TU Wien, Austria)
- Tatsuya Goto (TU Wien, Austria)
- Jan Grebik (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
- Noam Greenberg (University of Wellington, New Zealand)
- Zalán Gyenis (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
- Valentin Haberl (TU Wien, Austria)
- Lorenz Halbeisen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- James Hanson (Iowa State University, USA)
- Yusuke Hayashi (Kobe University, Japan)
- Yair Hayut (The Hebrew University of Jerualsem)
- Peter Holy (TU Wien, Austria)
- Radek Honzik (Charles University, Czechia)
- Silvan Horvath (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Ehud Hrushovski (Oxford University, UK)
- Jan Hubička (Charles University, Czechia)
- Martina Iannella (TU Wien, Austria)
- Tomás Ibarlucía (Paris Cité University, France)
- Istvan Juhász (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- Fabian Kaak (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
- Artemis Kaliger (University of Vienna)
- Kristóf Kanalas (Masaryk University, Czechia)
- Jana Káňová (Masaryk University)
- Sebastian Karlsson (University of Helsinki)
- Jakob Kellner (TU Wien, Austria)
- Yurii Khomskii (University of Amsterdam / Hamburg University, Germany)
- Anett Kocsis (Eötvös Loránd University)
- Bilge Koksal (Cornell University, US)
- Peter Komjath (Eotvos University, Hungary)
- Lukas Koschat (TU Wien, Austria)
- Thomas Kucera (University of Manitoba, Canada)
- Ashutosh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
- Charlene Laffond (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Chris Lambie-Hanson (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Arkady Leiderman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- Anna Lenz (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Johann Makowsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
- Leo Marcus (Retired)
- Jana Marikova (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Paolo Marimon (TU Wien, Austria)
- Pedro Marun (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Angus Matthews (University of Leeds)
- Diego Alejandro Mejia Guzman (Kobe University, Japan)
- Viola Mészáros (Berlin, Germany)
- Alberto Miguel Gómez (Imperial College London)
- Heike Mildenberger (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- Julia Millhouse (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Rahman Mohammadpour (IMPAN, Poland)
- Raúl Momblona Rodríguez (Czech Academy of Science)
- Yoàv Montacute (University of Cambridge, UK / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Miguel Moreno (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Sandra Müller (TU Wien, Austria)
- Scott Mutchnik (IMJ-PRG, France)
- José Nicolás Nájar Salinas (National University of Colombia)
- Jaroslav Nesetril (Charles university prague)
- Inbar Oren (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Máté András Pálfy (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
- Francesco Parente (Kobe University, Japan)
- Rehana Patel (Wesleyan University, USA)
- Michał Pawlikowski (Łódź University of Technology, Poland)
- Michael Pinsker (TU Wien, Austria)
- Riccardo Plati (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Márk Poor (Cornell University, USA)
- Joni Puljujärvi (University College London, UK)
- Davide Emilio Quadrellaro (InDam (Istituto nazionale di alta matematica), Italy)
- Nathanael Rosnick (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
- Jonathan Schilhan (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Moritz Albert Schöbi (TU Wien, Austria)
- Johannes Schürz (TU Wien, Austria)
- Christoph Spiess (TU Wien, Austria)
- Sarka Stejskalova (Czech Academy of Science)
- Miloslav Štěpán (Masaryk University)
- Grigorii (Grisha) Stepanov (TU Wien, Austria)
- Julius Stolz (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Lutz Strüngmann (University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany)
- Rob Sullivan (Charles University, Czechia)
- Jaroslav Supina (UPJS Kosice, Slovakia)
- Corey Switzer (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Piotr Szewczak (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
- Dorottya Sziraki (Hungary)
- Toshimasa Tanno (Kobe University, Japan)
- Fabio Tonti (Austria)
- Roberto Torres (Wesleyan University)
- Elpida Tsourounaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Andrés Felipe Uribe Zapata (TU Wien, Austria)
- Alex Usvyatsov (TU Wien, Austria)
- Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki)
- Tristan van der Vlugt (TU Wien, Austria)
- Mariana Vicaria (Munster University, Germany / UCLA, USA)
- Andrés Villaveces (National University of Colombia)
- Lena Wallner (TU Wien, Austria)
- Philip Welch (Universioty of Bristol, UK)
- Takashi Yamazoe (Kobe University, Japan)
- Aibat Yeshkeyev (Karaganda Buketov University, Kazakhstan)
- Francesca Yu (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Jindrich Zapletal (University of Florida, US)
- Lyubomyr Zdomskyy (TU Wien, Austria)
- Rui Zhou (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Tomasz Żuchowski (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Organizers: Martin Goldstern and Jakob Kellner
Last update: 2025-07-11