Department of Mathematics
Title : Introduction to Classical Descriptive Set Theory and an application to classification problems in mathematics
| Speaker: Alex Galicki Affiliation: University of Auckland Time: 12 noon Thursday, 2 May, 2013 Location: 303-412 |
Abstract
| The seminar consists of two parts. The first one is an introduction to classical descriptive set theory. We will present a brief history of the discipline, its main motivation questions, basic terminology and some classical results. The second part is concerned with Invariant Descriptive Set Theory and, in particular, with applications of IDST to classification problems in mathematics. We will briefly introduce the basic notions and some ideas of IDST and proceed to prove a couple of results related to the isometric classification of metric Polish spaces. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
