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1999 Spring Western Section Meeting
Las Vegas, NV, April 10-11, 1999
Meeting #942

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Special Session on Set Theory

  • Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Set Theory

    Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
    Organizers:
    Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
    Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      A property of Reznichenko and additivity of the meager ideal.
      Marion Scheepers*, Boise State University
      Ljubisha Kocinac, University of Nis
      (942-04-130)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Ramsey Games and Sequoias.
      Carl Darby*, UNLV
      (942-04-227)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      The Yellow Cake.
      Andrzej Roslanowski*, Boise State University
      Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
      (942-03-173)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Cardinal invariants and ideals.
      Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University
      (942-04-231)
  • Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Set Theory

    Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
    Organizers:
    Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
    Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      On the classification problem for rank 2 torsion-free abelian groups.
      Alexander S Kechris*, Caltech
      (942-04-171)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Much ado about counterexamples to Vaught's Conjecture.
      Howard Becker*, Univ. of South Carolina
      (942-04-127)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Borel completeness of Boolean algebras and some related equivalence relations.
      Riccardo Camerlo*, Caltech
      Su Gao, Caltech
      (942-04-168)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      A counterexample to the strong Martin conjecture.
      Su Gao*, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
      (942-03-151)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Borel functions, continuity, and recursion theorem.
      Slawomir Solecki*, Indiana University
      (942-03-157)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Prewellorders and inner model theory.
      Greg Hjorth*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (942-04-162)
  • Sunday April 11, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
    Special Session on Set Theory

    Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
    Organizers:
    Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
    Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      A Survey of low-level L(R) combinatorics.
      Steve C. Jackson*, University of North Texas
      (942-04-185)
    • 9:25 a.m.
      {Covering Lemmas for $L({\Bbb R})$ and $K({\Bbb R})$}.
      Daniel W Cunningham*, Buffalo State College
      (942-04-103)
    • 9:50 a.m.
      Some Connections Between Descriptive Set Theory and Inner Model Theory.
      Mitch Rudominer*, Florida International University
      (942-04-176)
    • 10:15 a.m.
      The Consistency Strength of Blackwell Determinacy.
      Benedikt L\"owe*, Humboldt-Universit\"at zu Berlin
      (942-03-177)
    • 10:40 a.m.
      Jonsson Cardinals and their successors.
      Philip D. Welch*, Kobe University, University of Bristol.
      (942-03-248)
  • Sunday April 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Set Theory

    Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
    Organizers:
    Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
    Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Tightness and Internal Approachability.
      Matthew D Foreman*, UC Irvine
      (942-04-238)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Robust and stunted trees of height and cardinality~$\omega_1$.
      Mack Stanley*, San Jose State Univ.
      (942-04-172)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Simple complete Boolean algebras.
      Thomas Jech*, Penn State University
      (942-04-133)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Gap forcing: generalizing the Levy-Solovay theorem.
      Joel D Hamkins*, City University of New York
      (942-04-63)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Set Theory as a Branch of Mathematics.
      Noa Goldring*, Los Angeles, California
      (942-04-226)
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