Workshop Announcement:

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             Recent Advances in Core Model Theory
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               December 13 to December 17, 2004

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/coremodel.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted 
to important recent results in core model theory due to 
Hugh Woodin, results whose proofs are not widely known and have 
not been published.  One of these is Woodin's refutation of the
Cofinal Branches Hypothesis (CBH). Another is his identification
of HOD computed inside a model of AD+ with a new kind of inner 
model, constructed from extenders and iteration strategies.

Woodin has agreed to be the primary lecturer.  Steel and possibly 
one or two others will exposit parts of Woodin's work or the 
material on which it rests.  We hope that the wider dissemination
of these developments will lead to further advances in one of the
central programs in pure set theory: extending inner model theory
to stronger large cardinal hypotheses. 

The workshop is organized by
John Steel and Ernest Schimmerling.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/coremodel.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than September 13, 2004. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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