The goal of these seminars is to explore the intersection between logic and state-of-the-art quantum foundations. The faculty facilitators are Eduardo Dueñez, Massy Khoshbin, and Jose Iovino.

Olivia Aubone

Student Seminar Coordinator
Olivia Aubone

2025 Summer Student Seminars

Model Theory and Quantum Theory

Date Details
May 12, 2025 Topological Preliminaries: Topological spaces
Section 2.1 of the Lecture notes
May 14, 2025 Topological Preliminaries: Filter and ultrafilter limits
Section 2.1 of the lecture notes
May 19, 2025 Topological Preliminaries: Filter and ultrafilter limits and compactness
Section 2.2-2.5 of the lecture notes
May 21, 2025 Foundational Preliminaries: Ordinal and cardinal numbers, and the Axiom of Choice
May 23, 2025 Ultraproducts, Ultrapowers and Applications: Nonstandard arithmetic, nonstandard analysis, and types
Sections 3.1-3.2 of the lecture notes
May 28, 2025 Ultraproducts, Ultrapowers and Applications: Nonstandard arithmetic, nonstandard analysis, types and indiscernibility
Section 3.2 of the lecture notes
May 30, 2025 Proof of Łoś' theorem and proof of the compactness theorem from Łoś' theorem
Sections 3.3-3.4 of the lecture notes
June 4, 2025 Axiomatic Systems
Section 4.2 of the lecture notes
June 6, 2025 Consequences of the Completeness Theorem: Compactness and the size of models. Statement of Lindström's first theorem
Sections 4.1-4.6 of the lecture notes
June 9, 2025 Proof of the Completeness Theorem: The Henkin model construction, I
Section 4.4 of the lecture notes
June 11, 2025 Proof of the Completeness Theorem: The Henkin model construction, II
Section 4.4 of the lecture notes
June 13, 2025 Introduction to Definability
Section 5 of the lecture notes
June 16, 2025 Interpolation
Section 5.1 of the lecture notes
June 18, 2025 Definability
Section 5.2 of the lecture notes
July 7, 2025 Definability
Section 5.3 of the lecture notes
July 9, 2025 Axiomatizability
Section 3.6 of the lecture notes
July 11, 2025 Elementary extensions and elementary embeddings
Section 6 of the lecture notes
July 14, 2025 Types
Sections 7.1 and 7.2 of the lecture notes
July 16, 2025 Averages of types
Section 7.2 of the lecture notes
July 18, 2025 Saturated structures
Section 7.3 of the lecture notes
July 21, 2025 Saturated structures
Section 7.3 of the lecture notes
July 23, 2025 Saturated structures
Section 7.3 of the lecture notes
July 25, 2025 Homogeneous structures
Section 7.4 of the lecture notes
July 28, 2025 The back-and-forth method
Section 7.4 of the lecture notes
July 30, 2025 Infinitary languages
Section 8.1 of the lecture notes
August 1, 2025 Forcing
Section 8.1 of the lecture notes
August 4, 2025 Forcing
Section 8.2 of the lecture notes
August 6, 2025 Forcing, generic sets, and their meaning in science
Sections 8.2 and 8.3 of the lecture notes
August 8, 2025 Generic models
Section 8.3 of the lecture notes

Past Student Seminars

Date Details
March 31, 2025 Preliminary Meeting
April 2, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 2 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 7, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 2 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 9, 2025 Lecture: Eduardo Dueñez
Section 3 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 14, 2025 Lecture: Eduardo Dueñez
Section 3 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 16, 2025 Lecture: Josh Hamilton
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 21, 2025 Lecture: Josh Hamilton
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 23, 2025 Lecture: Josh Hamilton
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 28, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
April 30, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
May 5, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"
May 7, 2025 Lecture: Olivia Aubone
Section 4 of Jon Barwise's paper "An Introduction to First-Order Logic"