Anand Pillay : Model-theoretic and nonstandard methods in algebraic geometry and combinatorics.

Posted by James Freitag , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At

Nov. 15, 2019, 3 p.m.

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Abstract

I will talk about some model theoretic methods with a "nonstandard" flavour. I will first mention a second generation proof of function field Mordell-Lang in positive characteristic (2016). And then discuss recent and current work on arithmetic regularity lemmas from combinatorics.