Dartmouth Logic Seminar

Winter 2013

This quarter, the seminar meets every other Wednesday in Kemeny 120 at 3pm.

DateSpeakerTitle
Jan 16
Organizational Meeting
Kemeny 120 at 2pm
Jan 23
François G. Dorais
Dartmouth College
The Set-Theoretic Multiverse

Joel David Hamkins proposed a list of axioms for the multiverse view of set theory. We will look at these axioms and their consequences to our understanding of the mathematical universe. We will also look at a consistency proof of the multiverse axioms by Victoria Gitman and Joel David Hamkins.

Feb 20
Marcia Groszek
Dartmouth College
The Strength of Ramsey's Theorem for Pairs

We will review the forcing argument in Seetapun and Slaman 1995 showing that Ramsey's theorem for pairs is weaker than arithmetic comprehension. We may look at the complications involved in trying to do a similar argument for the binary tree version.

Feb 27
Seth Harris
Dartmouth College
Ramsey's Theorem for Trees: Notions of Stability and their Reverse Mathematics
Mar 6
Marcia Groszek
Dartmouth College
More on the Strength of Ramsey's Theorem for Pairs

We will finish the forcing argument in Seetapun and Slaman 1995 showing that Ramsey's theorem for pairs is weaker than arithmetic comprehension, and look at the complications involved in trying to do a similar argument for the binary tree version.