Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory will take place online during June 17–19, 2021.

Slides from the talks

BEST is an international conference featuring talks on a broad range of recent advances in research in set theory and related fields. Researchers from all areas of set theory and logic are welcome. BEST particularly aims to support the careers of young researchers. The conference is organized by the Set Theory group at Boise State University.

Contact best@boisestate.edu

Organizers Liljana Babinkostova (Boise State University), John Clemens (Boise State University), Samuel Coskey (Boise State University), Marion Scheepers (Boise State University) Scientific support Natasha Dobrinen (University of Denver)

Attend BEST

Anyone is welcome to attend using the Zoom join link above. In addition to the schedule of talks, all are welcome to join the Zoom meeting during the breaks for conversation.

While formal registration is not necessary, if you wish to receive announcements in advance of the conference, please send a message to best@boisestate.edu.

Speakers and talk titles

Abstracts in PDF | Abstracts in TeX

Slides from talks

Plenary speakers

David Fernández Bretón (UNAM). Hindman’s theorem as a weak version of the Axiom of Choice
Victoria Gitman (CUNY). Characterizing large cardinals via abstract logics
Jun Le Goh (Wisconsin). Inseparable pairs and recursion theory
Lynne Yengulalp (Wake Forest). Completeness, G-deltas, and games
Joseph Zielinski (North Texas). Orbit equivalence relations of some classes of non-locally compact Polish groups

Additional confirmed speakers

Filippo Calderoni (UIC). Rotation equivalence and cocycle superrigidity for compact actions
Natasha Dobrinen (Denver). Big Ramsey degrees of universal inverse limit structures
Thomas Gilton (Pittsburgh). Club stationary reflection and the special Aronszajn tree property
Osvaldo Guzmán González (UNAM). MAD families and strategically bounding forcings
Randall Holmes (Boise). An outline of a proof of the consistency of New Foundations
Martina Iannella (Udine). The complexity of convex bi-embeddability among countable linear orders
Krzysztof Kowitz (Gdańsk). Differentially compact space and Hindman space
Maxwell Levine (Freiburg). Patterns of stationary reflection
Renan Mezabarba (UFES). A characterization of productive cellularity
Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos (Münster). Dynamical obstructions to classification by (co)homology and other TSI-group invariants
Nick Ramsey (UCLA). Exact saturation in pseudo-elementary classes
Panagiotis Rouvelas (Patras). Models of predicative NF
Cory Switzer (KGRC). Tight eventually different families
Riley Thornton (UCLA). Effectivization in Borel combinatorics
Kameryn Williams (Hawaii). Coding sets into inner mantles
Jenna Zomback (UIUC). Ergodic theorems along trees

Schedule of talks

Schedule in pdf

All times in Mountain Daylight Time (US/Boise, UTC-6)

You are welcome to join the meeting to chat between morning and afternoon sessions!

BEST Session 1 Thursday, June 17, Morning Chair: Sam Coskey	10:30–11:20 Gitman 11:30–11:55 Levine 12:00–12:25 Switzer
BEST Session 2 Thursday, June 17, Afternoon Chair: Marion Scheepers	14:00–14:55 Zielinski 15:00–15:25 Mezabarba 15:30–15:55 Calderoni 16:00–16:25 Dobrinen
BEST Session 3 Friday, June 18, Morning Chair: Liljana Babinkostova	10:30–11:20 Goh 11:30–11:55 Iannella 12:00–12:25 Panagiotopoulos
BEST Session 4 Friday, June 18, Afternoon Chair: Sam Coskey	14:00–14:55 Yengulalp 15:00–15:25 Holmes 15:30–15:55 Guzmán González 16:00–16:25 Ramsey
BEST Session 5 Saturday, June 19, Morning Chair: Randall Holmes	10:30–10:55 Zomback 11:00–11:25 Gilton 11:30–11:55 Kowitz 12:00–12:25 Rouvelas
BEST Session 6 Saturday June 19, Afternoon Chair: John Clemens	14:00–14:55 Fernández Bretón 15:00–15:25 Thornton 15:30–15:55 Williams

Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory