This meeting was held in honour of the contributions of Dugald Macpherson to bring together key figures and young researchers in Dugald’s main fields of interest: model theory, group theory and combinatorics.
Workshop
From Permutation Groups to Model Theory: a Workshop Inspired by the Interests of Dugald Macpherson, on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
17 - 21 Sep 2018
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About
Programme
Meet the speakers
Peter Cameron
St Andrews Unvierstiy
Oligomorphic Groups and Their Orbit Algebras
Jaroslav Nesetril
Charles University
Modeling Limits
James Mitchell
St Andrews University
Semigroup Topologies on the Full Transformation Monoid
Manfred Droste
University of Leipzig
Normal Subgroups of Unital Automorphism Groups
Simon Smith
University of Lincoln
The Box Product and Dugald's Early Work on Distance Transitive Graphs
Slawomir Solecki
Cornell University
Projective Fraissé Limits and Compact Spaces
Martin Liebeck
Imperial College London
Bases for Linear Groups
Robert Gray
University of East Anglia
Cohomology Theory of Monoids with a Single Defining Relation
Cheryl Praeger
University of Western Australia
Permutation Groups with Certain Finiteness Conditions
Simon Thomas
Rutgers University
Characters of Inductive Limits of Finite Alternating Groups
Maryanthe Malliaris
University of Chicago
Complexity in Simple Theories
Edith Vargas-Garcia
ITAM-Mexico
Reconstructing the Topology on Monoids and Polymorphism Clones of Some Relational Structures
John Truss
University of Leeds
Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé Games on Linear Orders and Coloured Linear Orders
David Evans
Imperial College London
Actions of Automorphism Groups of Omega-Categorical Structures on Compact Spaces
Isabel Müller
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stationary Independence and the Extension Property of Partial Automorphisms
Gregory Cherlin
Rutgers University
The Relational Complexity of a Finite Primitive Structure
Kartin Tent
University of Muenster
Ampleness in Strongly Minimal Structures
Ehud Hrushovski
Oxford University
On Measures and Higher Amalgamation
Artem Chernikov
UCLA
Hypergraph Regularity and Higher Dimensional Analogs of VC-Dimension
Zoe Chatzidakis
ENS Paris
Notions of Difference Closures of Difference Fields
Daoud Siniora
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Note on Automorphisms of Meet-Trees
Pierre Simon
University of California
Homogeneous Structures with Few Types
Anand Pillay
University of Notre Dame
P-Adic Nash Groups
Charlie Steinhorn
Vassar College
An Application of O-Minimality in Mathematical Economics
Dugald Macpherson
University of Leeds
Jordan Permutation Groups, Tree-Like Structures, and Their Limits
Angus Macintyre
QMUL
Recent Work on Adele Rings and Related Structures
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