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The Graduate Logic Seminar is an informal space where graduate student and professors present topics related to logic which are not necessarly original or completed work. This is a space focused principally on practicing presentation skills or learning materials that are not usually presented in a class.
The Graduate Logic Seminar is an informal space where graduate students and professors present topics related to logic which are not necessarily original or completed work. This is a space focused principally on practicing presentation skills or learning materials that are not usually presented in a class.


* '''When:''' Mondays 4p-5p
* '''When:''' Mondays 3:30-4:30 PM
* '''Where:''' Van Vleck B215.
* '''Where:''' Van Vleck B223
* '''Organizers:''' [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~omer/ Omer Mermelstein]
* '''Organizers:''' [https://people.math.wisc.edu/~slempp/ Steffen Lempp] and [https://sites.google.com/view/hongyu-zhu/ Hongyu Zhu]


The talk schedule is arranged at the beginning of each semester. If you would like to participate, please contact one of the organizers.
The talk schedule is arranged at the beginning of each semester. If you would like to participate, please contact one of the organizers.


Sign up for the graduate logic seminar mailing list:  join-grad-logic-sem@lists.wisc.edu
Sign up for the graduate logic seminar mailing list:  [mailto:join-grad-logic-sem@lists.wisc.edu join-grad-logic-sem@lists.wisc.edu]


== Spring 2020 - Tentative schedule ==
== Spring 2024 ==


=== January 28 - Talk by visitor - No seminar ===
The seminar will be run as a 1-credit seminar Math 975 . In Spring 2024, the topic will be forcing constructions in computability theory. If you are not enrolled but would like to audit it, please contact [https://people.math.wisc.edu/~slempp/ Steffen Lempp]  and [mailto:hongyu@math.wisc.edu Hongyu Zhu].
=== February 3 - Talk by visitor - No seminar ===
=== February 10 - No seminar (speaker was sick) ===


=== February 17 - James Hanson ===
Presentation Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JC6glG_soNLtaMQWaAuADlUu8dh2eJ0NL-MaUr7-nOk/edit?usp=sharing


Title: The Topology of Definable Sets in Continuous Logic
Zoom link for remote attendance: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96168027763?pwd=bGdvL3lpOGl6QndQcG5RTFUzY3JXQT09 (Meeting ID: 961 6802 7763, Password: 975f23)


Abstract: We will look at the topology of certain special subsets of type spaces in continuous logic, such as definable sets. In the process we will characterize those type spaces which have 'enough definable sets' and look at some counterexamples to things which would have been nice.
=== January 29 - Organizational Meeting ===


=== February 24 - Two short talks - Tejas Bhojraj and Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott ===
Steffen Lempp will give an overview and present some very basic forcing construction.


'''Tejas Bhojraj''' - Quantum Kolmogorov Complexity.
We will then assign speakers to dates and topics.


Abstract: We define a notion of quantum Kolmogorov complexity and relate it to quantum Solovay and quantum Schnorr randomness.
=== '''February 5 - Taeyoung Em''' ===
'''Title:''' Introduction to forcing


'''Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott''' - A Characterization of Strongly $\eta$-Representable Degrees.
'''Abstract:''' We introduce new definitions and properties regarding forcing.  


Abstract:
=== '''February 12 - Hongyu Zhu''' ===
$\eta$-representations are a way of coding sets in computable linear orders that were first
'''Title:''' Slaman-Woodin Forcing and the Theory of Turing Degrees
introduced by Fellner in his PhD thesis. Limitwise monotonic functions have been used to
characterize the sets with $\eta$-representations as well as the sets with subclasses of
$\eta$-representations except for the case of sets with strong $\eta$-representations, the only
class where the order type of the representation is unique.


We introduce the notion of a connected approximation of a set, a variation on $\Sigma^0_2$
'''Abstract:''' We will discuss how to use Slaman-Woodin forcing to interpret true second(first, resp.)-order arithmetic in the Turing degrees (Turing degrees below 0', resp.), thereby showing they have the same Turing degree.
approximations. We use connected approximations to
give a characterization of the degrees with strong $\eta$-representations as well new
characterizations of the subclasses of $\eta$-representations with known characterizations.


=== March 2 - Patrick Nicodemus ===
=== '''February 19 - John Spoerl''' ===
'''Title:''' Forcing with Trees - Spector's and Sack's Minimal Degrees


Title: A Sheaf-theoretic generalization of Los's theorem
'''Abstract:''' We'll take a look at Spector's forcing which uses perfect trees as conditions.  Then we'll see where we might make some improvements which leads to Sack's sharpening of Spector's theorem: there is a minimal degree below 0'.


Abstract: Sheaf theory deals in part with the behavior of functions on a small open neighborhood of a point. As one chooses smaller and smaller open neighborhoods around a point, one gets closer to the limit - the "germ" of the function of the point. The relationship between the "finite approximation" (the function's behavior on a small, but not infinitesimal, neighborhood) and the "limit" (its infinitesimal behavior) is akin to the concept of reasoning with finite approximations that underlies forcing. Indeed, there is a natural forcing language that arises in sheaf theory - this is somewhat unsurprising as at a purely formal level, a sheaf is almost identical as a data structure to a Kripke model. We will demonstrate the applicability of this forcing language by giving a Los's theorem for sheaves of models.
=== '''February 26 - Karthik Ravishankar''' ===
'''Title:''' The 3 element chain as an initial segment of the Turing Degrees


=== March 9 - Noah Schweber ===
'''Abstract:''' In this talk, we'll look at the construction of a minimal degree with a strong minimal cover which shows that the three-element chain can be embedded as an initial segment of the Turing Degrees. The construction builds off ideas of Spector's minimal degree with stronger assumptions on the forcing conditions used. If time permits, we'll also talk about Copper's Jump Inversion building off Sack's construction.


Title: Algebraic logic and algebraizable logics
=== '''March 4 - Karthik Ravishankar''' ===
'''Title:''' Bushy Tree forcing and constructing a minimal degree which is DNC


Abstract: Arguably the oldest theme in what we would recognize as "mathematical logic" is the algebraic interpretation of logic, the most famous example of this being the connection between (classical) propositional logic and Boolean algebras. But underlying the subject of algebraic logic is the implicit assumption that many logical systems are "satisfyingly" interpreted as algebraic structures. This naturally hints at a question, which to my knowledge went unasked for a surprisingly long time: when does a logic admit a "nice algebraic interpretation?"
'''Abstract:''' We shall look at a forcing technique called Bushy Tree forcing using it to show that there is no uniform way to compute a DNC_2 from a DNC_3 function and that there is a DNC function that is weak in the sense that it does not compute a computably bounded DNC function. We present a few other results along these lines and sketch the construction of a minimal degree that is DNC relative to any given oracle using bushy tree forcing.


Perhaps surprisingly, this is actually a question which can be made precise enough to treat with interesting results. I'll sketch what is probably the first serious result along these lines, due to Blok and Pigozzi, and then say a bit about where this aspect of algebraic logic has gone from there.
=== '''March 11 - Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott''' ===
'''Title:''' A uniformly e-pointed tree on Baire space without dead ends that is not of cototal degree


=== March 16 - Spring break - No seminar ===
'''Abstract:''' A set is cototal if it is enumeration reducible to its complement. A tree is e-point if every path on the tree can enumerate the tree. McCathy proved that these notions are equivalent up to e-degree when considering e-pointed trees on cantor space. This fails when considering trees on Baire space. We give an example of a simple forcing construction that produces e-pointed trees on Baire space. We carefully analyze this forcing partial order to prove that generic e-pointed trees without dead ends are not of cototal degree.


'''
=== '''March 18 - Alice Vidrine''' ===
== Due to the cancellation of face-to-face instruction in UW-Madison through at least April 10, the seminar is suspended until further notice ==
'''Title:''' There is no non-computable bi-introreducible set


'''Abstract:''' A set is said to be bi-introreducible if it can be computed by any of its infinite subsets, or any infinite subset of its complement. This talk will detail a Matthias forcing construction used to prove a theorem by Seetapun which implies that the bi-introreducible sets are exactly the computable sets.


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=== September 5 - Organizational meeting ===
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=== September 9 - No seminar ===
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=== September 16 - Daniel Belin ===
== Previous Years ==
Title: Lattice Embeddings of the m-Degrees and Second Order Arithmetic
 
Abstract: Lachlan, in a result later refined and clarified by Odifreddi, proved in 1970 that initial segments of the m-degrees can be embedded as an upper semilattice formed as the limit of finite distributive lattices. This allows us to show that the many-one degrees codes satisfiability in second-order arithmetic, due to a later result of Nerode and Shore. We will take a journey through Lachlan's rather complicated construction which sheds a great deal of light on the order-theoretic properties of many-one reducibility.
 
=== September 23 - Daniel Belin ===
 
Title: Lattice Embeddings of the m-Degrees and Second Order Arithmetic - Continued
 
=== September 30 - Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott ===
 
Title: Scott Rank of Computable Models
 
Abstract: Infinatary logic extends the notions of first order logic by allowing infinite formulas. Scott's Isomorphism Theorem states that any countable structure can be characterized up to isomorphism by a single countable sentence. Closely related to the complexity of this sentence is what is known as the Scott Rank of the structure. In this talk we restrict our attention to computable models and look at an upper bound on the Scott Rank of such structures.
 
=== October 7 - Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott ===
 
Title: Scott Rank of Computable Codels - Continued
 
=== October 14 - Tejas Bhojraj ===
 
Title: Solovay and Schnorr randomness for infinite sequences of qubits.
 
Abstract : We define Solovay and Schnorr randomness in the quantum setting. We then prove quantum versions of the law of large numbers and of the Shannon McMillan Breiman theorem (only for the iid case) for quantum Schnorr randoms.
 
=== October 23 - Tejas Bhojraj ===
 
Title: Solovay and Schnorr randomness for infinite sequences of qubits - continued
 
Unusual time and place: Wednesday October 23, 4:30pm, Van Vleck B321.
 
=== October 28 - Two short talks ===
 
'''Iván Ongay Valverde''' - Exploring different versions of the Semi-Open Coloring Axiom (SOCA)
 
In 1985, Avraham, Rubin and Shelah published an article where they introduced different coloring axioms. The weakest of them, the Semi-Open Coloring Axiom (SOCA), states that given an uncountable second countable metric space, $E$, and $W\subseteq E^{\dagger}:=E\times E\setminus \{(x, x) :x \in E\}$ open and symmetric, there is an uncountable subset $H\subseteq E$ such that either $H^{\dagger}\subseteq W$ or $H^{\dagger}\cap W=\emptyset$. We say that $W$ is an open coloring and $H$ is a homogeneous subset of $E$. This statement contradicts CH but, as shown also by Avraham, Rubin and Shelah, it is compatible with the continuum taking any other size. This classic paper leaves some questions open (either in an implicit or an explicit way):
 
- Is the axiom weaker if we demand that $W$ is clopen?
- If the continuum is bigger than $\aleph_2$, can we ask that $H$ has the same size as $E$?
- Can we expand this axiom to spaces that are not second countable and metric?
 
These questions lead to different versions of SOCA. In this talk, we will analyze how they relate to the original axiom.
 
'''James Earnest Hanson''' - Strongly minimal sets in continuous logic
 
The precise structural understanding of uncountably categorical theories given by the proof of the Baldwin-Lachlan theorem is known to fail in continuous logic in the context of inseparably categorical theories. The primary obstacle is the absence of strongly minimal sets in some inseparably categorical theories. We will develop the concept of strongly minimal sets in continuous logic and discuss some common conditions under which they are present in an $\omega$-stable theory. Finally, we will examine the extent to which we recover a Baldwin-Lachlan style characterization in the presence of strongly minimal sets.
 
=== November 4 - Two short talks ===
 
'''Manlio Valenti''' - The complexity of closed Salem sets (20 minutes version)
 
A central notion in geometric measure theory is the one of Hausdorff dimension. As a consequence of Frostman's lemma, the Hausdorff dimension of a Borel subset A of the Euclidean n-dimensional space can be determined by looking at the behaviour of probability measures with support in A. The possibility to apply methods from Fourier analysis to estimate the Hausdorff dimension gives birth to the notion of Fourier dimension. It is known that, for Borel sets, the Fourier dimension is less than or equal to the Hausdorff dimension. The sets for which the two notions agree are called Salem sets.
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In this talk we will study the descriptive complexity of the family of closed Salem subsets of the real line.
 
'''Patrick Nicodemus''' - Proof theory of Second Order Arithmetic and System F
 
A central theme in proof theory is to show that some formal system has the property that whenever A is provable, there is a proof of A in "normal form" - a direct proof without any detours. Such results have numerous and immediate consequences - often consistency follows as an easy corollary. The Curry Howard correspondence describes of equivalences between normalization of proofs and program termination in typed lambda calculi. We present an instance of this equivalence, between the proof theory of intuitionistic second order arithmetic and the second order polymorphic lambda calculus of Girard and Reynolds, aka system F.
 
=== November 11 - Manlio Valenti ===
 
Title: The complexity of closed Salem sets (full length)
 
Abstract:
A central notion in geometric measure theory is the one of Hausdorff dimension. As a consequence of Frostman's lemma, the Hausdorff dimension of a Borel subset A of the Euclidean n-dimensional space can be determined by looking at the behaviour of probability measures with support in A. The possibility to apply methods from Fourier analysis to estimate the Hausdorff dimension gives birth to the notion of Fourier dimension. It is known that, for Borel sets, the Fourier dimension is less than or equal to the Hausdorff dimension. The sets for which the two notions agree are called Salem sets.
<br/>
In this talk we will study the descriptive complexity of the family of closed Salem subsets of the real line.
 
=== November 18 - Iván Ongay Valverde ===
 
Title: A couple of summer results
 
Abstract: Lately, I have been studying how subsets of reals closed under Turing equivalence behave through the lenses of algebra, measure theory and orders.
 
In this talk I will classify which subsets of reals closed under Turing equivalence generate subfields or $\mathbb{Q}$-vector spaces of $\mathbb{R}$. We will show that there is a non-measurable set whose Turing closure becomes measurable (and one that stays non-measurable) and, if we have enough time, we will see a model where there are 5 possible order types for $\aleph_1$ dense subsets of reals, but just 1 for $\aleph_1$ dense subsets of reals closed under Turing equivalence.
 
=== November 25 - Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Granada - No seminar ===
 
=== December 2 - Anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz - No seminar ===
 
=== December 9 - Anniversary of the death of Pope Pius IV - No seminar  ===
 
==Previous Years==


The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found [[Graduate Logic Seminar, previous semesters|here]].
The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found [[Graduate Logic Seminar, previous semesters|here]].

Latest revision as of 14:52, 15 March 2024

The Graduate Logic Seminar is an informal space where graduate students and professors present topics related to logic which are not necessarily original or completed work. This is a space focused principally on practicing presentation skills or learning materials that are not usually presented in a class.

The talk schedule is arranged at the beginning of each semester. If you would like to participate, please contact one of the organizers.

Sign up for the graduate logic seminar mailing list: join-grad-logic-sem@lists.wisc.edu

Spring 2024

The seminar will be run as a 1-credit seminar Math 975 . In Spring 2024, the topic will be forcing constructions in computability theory. If you are not enrolled but would like to audit it, please contact Steffen Lempp and Hongyu Zhu.

Presentation Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JC6glG_soNLtaMQWaAuADlUu8dh2eJ0NL-MaUr7-nOk/edit?usp=sharing

Zoom link for remote attendance: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96168027763?pwd=bGdvL3lpOGl6QndQcG5RTFUzY3JXQT09 (Meeting ID: 961 6802 7763, Password: 975f23)

January 29 - Organizational Meeting

Steffen Lempp will give an overview and present some very basic forcing construction.

We will then assign speakers to dates and topics.

February 5 - Taeyoung Em

Title: Introduction to forcing

Abstract: We introduce new definitions and properties regarding forcing.

February 12 - Hongyu Zhu

Title: Slaman-Woodin Forcing and the Theory of Turing Degrees

Abstract: We will discuss how to use Slaman-Woodin forcing to interpret true second(first, resp.)-order arithmetic in the Turing degrees (Turing degrees below 0', resp.), thereby showing they have the same Turing degree.

February 19 - John Spoerl

Title: Forcing with Trees - Spector's and Sack's Minimal Degrees

Abstract: We'll take a look at Spector's forcing which uses perfect trees as conditions. Then we'll see where we might make some improvements which leads to Sack's sharpening of Spector's theorem: there is a minimal degree below 0'.

February 26 - Karthik Ravishankar

Title: The 3 element chain as an initial segment of the Turing Degrees

Abstract: In this talk, we'll look at the construction of a minimal degree with a strong minimal cover which shows that the three-element chain can be embedded as an initial segment of the Turing Degrees. The construction builds off ideas of Spector's minimal degree with stronger assumptions on the forcing conditions used. If time permits, we'll also talk about Copper's Jump Inversion building off Sack's construction.

March 4 - Karthik Ravishankar

Title: Bushy Tree forcing and constructing a minimal degree which is DNC

Abstract: We shall look at a forcing technique called Bushy Tree forcing using it to show that there is no uniform way to compute a DNC_2 from a DNC_3 function and that there is a DNC function that is weak in the sense that it does not compute a computably bounded DNC function. We present a few other results along these lines and sketch the construction of a minimal degree that is DNC relative to any given oracle using bushy tree forcing.

March 11 - Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott

Title: A uniformly e-pointed tree on Baire space without dead ends that is not of cototal degree

Abstract: A set is cototal if it is enumeration reducible to its complement. A tree is e-point if every path on the tree can enumerate the tree. McCathy proved that these notions are equivalent up to e-degree when considering e-pointed trees on cantor space. This fails when considering trees on Baire space. We give an example of a simple forcing construction that produces e-pointed trees on Baire space. We carefully analyze this forcing partial order to prove that generic e-pointed trees without dead ends are not of cototal degree.

March 18 - Alice Vidrine

Title: There is no non-computable bi-introreducible set

Abstract: A set is said to be bi-introreducible if it can be computed by any of its infinite subsets, or any infinite subset of its complement. This talk will detail a Matthias forcing construction used to prove a theorem by Seetapun which implies that the bi-introreducible sets are exactly the computable sets.


Previous Years

The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found here.