Home Page for the BEST 17 Conference"

Home Page for the BEST 17 Conference

organized by

Liljana Babinkostova, Stefan Geschke
and Marion Scheepers

Department of Mathematics
Boise State University

BOISE EXTRAVAGANZA IN SET THEORY

March 28-30, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)

Funded by NSF grant DMS 0503444
Abstract services are generously provided by Atlas Conferences Inc.
Invited Speakers:
  • Tetsuya Ishiu (Miami University, Ohio)  The principle (+) and club guessing sequences
  • Bart Kastermans (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  Generating Sets of Cofinitary Groups
  • Menachem Kojman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  • Elzbieta Pol (University of Warsaw, Poland) On metric spaces with Haver property which are Menger spaces

    Participants (that we know of):

  • Liljana Babinkostova (Boise State University)  Selectively separable spaces and products
  • Marvin Baker (DaVinci Academy of Arts and Science)
  • Andreas Blass (University of Michigan)  Partitions and near coherence
  • Nathan Bowler (University of Cambridge)
  • Natasha Dobrinen (University of Denver)
  • Francois Dorais (Cornell University)
  • Derrick Dubose University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
  • Thomas Forster (University of Cambridge)
  • Stefan Geschke (Boise State University) Isomorphisms between small subalgebras of P (w)/fin
  • Eric Hall (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
  • Randall Holmes (Boise State University)  Teaching Simple Type Theory
  • Billy Hudson (Boise State University)
  • Masaru Kada (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)  Higson compactifications and non-rapid ultrafilters
  • Richard Ketchersid (University of North Texas)  An initial segment property of mice
  • David Milovich (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  Applications of w1-approximation systems
  • Dilip Raghavan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Solution to a Problem of Van Douwen
  • Judy Roitman (University of Kansas)  Is o(w+1)w paracompact?
  • Andrzej Roslanowski (University of Omaha)   Reasonable ultrafilters
  • Marion Scheepers (Boise State University) On  Hurewicz subsets of RN

  • If you wish to participate or if you are not on the mailing list for the conference and wish to be, please contact the organizers.
     

    Here are some pictures from BEST 17: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3.

     

    Contact Information: To contact the organizers, email:
    best (at) diamond (dot) boisestate (dot) edu .

    Location: Boise State University: Room 139 in the Mathematics-Geology building.

    Abstracts: Abstract submission is being handled by Atlas Conferences Inc.

    The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 24, 2008

    Schedule Follow this link.

    Lodging The Hampton Inn & Suites Boise/Downtown (1-800-426-7866) is keeping a number of rooms for participants of BEST 17 at a special daily rate (for dates March 27 - March 30). Check-in time is after 3:00 pm, and check-out time before 12:00 noon. Complimentary amenities include: hot breakfast, wireless high-speed internet, and airport shuttle service between Boise Airport and the hotel. Please make reservations by March 6, 2008. Reservations received after March 6 will be provided on a space available basis, at prevailing rates. Individual call-in reservations must be guaranteed by a credit card.  Cancellations must occur by 6:00 pm, March 27, 2008.

    Financial Support Limited travel support is available for participants. Graduate students and young researchers will be given priority. When determining the level of support, we may take into account whether the participant contributed a talk. In order to apply, e-mail one of the organizers. Graduate student applications must be supported by a separate e-mail from their thesis advisor.

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