HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Mathematics
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Chloe Perin
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Chloe Perin
Course/Module description:
This seminar aims to survey some of the recent results concerning the model theory of the free group that followed the works of Sela. We will try to cover both the model theoretic context of stable groups, in which the questions arise, and the techniques from geometric group theory, with which they are solved.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Understand recent results on the model theory of the free group.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Seminar - the student give talks in turn. In addition, there will be an "exercise class" every week that will be an opportunity to go over the lecture and understand it more deeply.
Course/Module Content:
A tentative (and possibly over ambitious) list of topics includes: connectedness, homogeneity, elementary subgroups, description of generic sets, ampleness, forking, equationality, weight.
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 100 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
The lectures and exercise classes will be in english.
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