PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Maryanthe Malliaris
Topic
Model theory and complexity
Speakers
Details
Recent progress in model theory is changing our understanding of how the finite and infinite interact. One aspect of this story has to do with the emerging appearance of complexity in so-called simple unstable theories, which provide a model theoretic framework for studying certain families of "random" objects, such as the theories of random graphs or hypergraphs or pseudofinite fields.
Speaker Biography: Maryanthe Malliaris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in model theory, and is currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. She was a winner of the 2010 Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowship, and in 2017 was awarded the Hausdorff medal for joint work with Saharon Shelah. Malliaris was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
About the series: Starting in 2021, PIMS has inaugurated a high-level network-wide colloquium series. Distinguished speakers will give talks across the full PIMS network with one talk per month during the academic term. The 2021 speaker series is part of the PIMS 25th Anniversary showcase.
Additional Information
Time: All network wide colloquia take place at 1:30pm Pacific Time
Registration: To attend this event please register here to receive the meeting link. This meeting will *not* be recorded.
Maryanthe Malliaris (Chicago)