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Recent Presentations

Earlier Conference Presentations

  • Special session Inverse Problems, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, virtual and formerly University of Utah, October 2020 (invited).
  • SouthEastern Logic Symposium, Computability session, University of Florida, Gainesville, February-March 2020 (invited).
  • Logical Foundations of Computer Science, Deerfeld Beach, Florida, January 2020 (invited).
  • 2019 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Toronto, December 2019 (invited).
  • Special season Inverse Problems, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of California, Riverside, November 2019 (invited).
  • European Summer Meeting of the ASL, special session Computability, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2019 (invited).
  • SIU Pure Mathematics Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, May 2019 (invited).
  • Special session Computability Theory, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Connecticut, Hartford, April 2019.
  • Sspecial session Computability, Complexity and Learning, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, March 2019 (invited).
  • Joint AMS-ASL special session Definability and Decidability Problems in Number Theory, Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, January 2019 (invited).
  • AMS special session Recent Advances and Trends in Computable Structure Theory (in honor of J. Remmel), Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, January 2019 (invited).
  • Computability in Europe, Kiel, Germany, July-August 2018 (contributed).
  • Workshop on Computability Theory and Its Applications, University of Waterloo, Canada, June 2018 (invited).
  • Special season Inverse Problems, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Portland State University, OR, April 2018 (invited).
  • SouthEastern Logic Symposium, Computability session, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2018 (invited).
  • Computable Structures and Reverse Mathematics, IMS, National Institute of Singapore, September 2017 (plenary). video
  • Computable structure theory (two-lecture tutorial), 11th Panhellenic Logic Symposium, Delphi, Greece, July 2017 (invited).
  • Special season Inverse Problems, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, April 2017 (invited).
  • Computable structure theory (three-lecture tutorial), North American Annual Meeting of ASL, Boise State University, Idaho, March 2017 (invited).
  • Computability and Complexity Symposium, Raumati, New Zealand, January 2017 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS special session Effective Mathematics in Discrete and Continuous Worlds, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, October 2016 (invited).
  • 9th International Workshop on Computability Theory, Ghent, Belgium, July 2016 (invited).
  • 19th Annual Conference for the Consortium for Orders in Algebra and Logic, Penn State Behrend, Erie, June 2016 (invited).
  • Association for Symbolic Logic North American Annual Meeting, special session Computability, University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 2016 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Inverse Problems, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2016 (invited).
  • 11th International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness, University of Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2016 (contributed).
  • New England Recursion and Definability Seminar, Assumption College, Worcester, MA, October 2015 (plenary).
  • Special session Computability Theory and Applications, Meeting of the AMS, Loyola University, Chicago, October 2015 (invited).
  • European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Helsinki, Finland, August 2015 (contributed).
  • Research conference Sets and Computations, National University of Singapore, April 2015 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Inverse Problems and Related Mathematical Methods in Physics, Las Vegas, April 2015 (invited, double time).
  • Computability session, South Eastern Logic Symposium, Gainesville, Florida, February-March 2015 (invited).
  • Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing, Dallas, Texas, January 2015 (invited).
  • Special session Computability Theory, 2014 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Hamilton, Ontario, December 2014 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Inverse Problem and Other Mathematical Methods Applied in Physics and Related Sciences, April 2014 (invited).
  • Joint Math Meetings, AMS special session Computability in Geometry and Topology, Baltimore, January 2014 (plenary - double time).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Computability Across Mathematics, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2013 (invited).
  • Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, special session Themes in Applied Mathematics, Boulder, Colorado, April 2013 (invited).
  • Joint American Mathematical Society/Association for Symbolic Logic special session Effective Algebra and Model Theory, Annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 2013 (invited).
  • Isaac Newton Institute Workshop on the Incomputable, Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chichley Hall, United Kingdom, June 2012 (invited).
  • Conference Definability in Computable Structures, University of Chicago, May 2012 (plenary).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Mathematics Applied in the Sciences: From Statistics to Topology, Washington DC, March 2012 (invited).
  • International meeting on Computability Theory, Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute, Germany, February 2012 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2011 (invited).
  • Mal'cev meeting, international conference on algebra, mathematical logic and applications, Novosibirsk, Russia, October 2011 (plenary).
  • Workshop on Computability Theory, Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011 (invited).
  • Special session Computability in Analysis, Algebra and Geometry, Computability in Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria, June  2011 (invited).
  • Workshop in Computability Theory, Paris, France, July 2010 (invited).
  • SouthEastern Logic Symposium (SEALS), University of Florida, Gainesville, February 2010 (invited).
  • Four notions of degree spectra, European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Logic Colloquium, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2009 (plenary).
  • Workshop on Computability, Reverse Mathematics and Combinatorics, Banff International Research Station, Alberta, Canada, December 2008 (invited).
  • Meeting of the AMS, special session Computability Theory and Effective Algebra, Wesleyan University, October 2008 (invited).
  • Effective categoricity of equivalence structures and abelian p-groups, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, University of California-Irvine, March 2008 (invited)
  • Workshop on Knots and Quantum Computing, University of Texas at Dallas, December 2007 (invited). 
  • Computable algebra, Abstract, Meeting of the AMS, special session Advances of Algorithmic Methods for Algebraic Structures, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, November 2007 (invited).
  • Back and forth through computability theory, Abstract, Winter Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, New Orleans, January 2007 (plenary).
  • Coding structures into structures, Abstract,  Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, special session Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 2006 (invited).
  •  Strong degree spectra of relations, Abstract, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, special session Model Theory and Computability, Notre Dame, IN, April 2006 (invited).
  • 12th SouthEastern Logic Symposium (SEALS), University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2006 (invited).
  •  Computable models, computability, and enumerations, NSF-funded Workshop on Classification of Countable Models, University of Notre Dame, May 2005 (invited).
  •  Degrees of structures, 11th SouthEastern Logic Symposium (SEALS), University of Florida, Gainesville, April 2005 (invited).
  • Effectively and relatively effectively categorical structures, special session Computability Theory and Applications, Meeting of the AMS, Evanston, Illinois, October 2004 (invited).
  • Effectiveness in algebraic structures, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 2004 (plenary).
  • Kleene's O, Harrison orderings, and Turing degree spectra, 10th SouthEastern Logic Symposium (SEALS), University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2004 (invited).
  • Inductive inference machines for mathematical structures, 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of  Mathematics, Oviedo, Spain August, 2003.
  • Degrees of the isomorphism types of countable structures, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, special session Computability Theory and Effective Mathematics, Chicago, 2003 (invited).
  • On the learnability of vector spaces, 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, Lubeck, Germany, 2002 (refereed).
  • Principal filters of the lattice of computably enumerable vector spaces, special session Effectiveness Questions in Model Theory, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2002 (invited).
  • Complexity of diagrams of countable structures, Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, special session Computability Theory with Applications, San Diego, California, 2002 (invited).
  • Immune relations on computable structures, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, special session Computability Theory, Urbana-Champaign, 2000 (invited).
  • Definability and algorithmic properties of structures, Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Symposium, College Park, Maryland, 2000 (invited).
  • Computably enumerable relations on computable structures, American Mathematical Society Meeting, special session Computability, Gainesville, Florida, 1999 (invited).
  • Nowhere simplicity, Turing degrees, and splittings, Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1998 (invited).
  • Uncountably many isomorphic copies of a computable relation, International Workshop on Recursion Theory and Complexity Theory, Kazan, Russia, 1997 (invited).
  • Intrinsically D02 relations in computable structures, Logic Colloquium - European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Leeds, England, 1997.
  • Nowhere simple sets, International Recursion Theory Meeting, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, 1996 (invited).
  • Turing degrees of certain isomorphic images of recursive relations, Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, special session Recursive and Feasible Mathematics, Orlando, Florida, 1996 (invited).
  • Frequency computable sets, their classes, and generalizations, Logic Colloquium - European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, special session on Computability Theory, Haifa, Israel, 1995 (invited).
  • Recursive model theory: Examining computability in the theory of theories, Winter Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, San Francisco, 1995 (plenary).
  • Frequency computations, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Duke University, 1992.
  • Two-element Turing degree spectrum, Logic Colloquium - European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, West Berlin, Germany, 1989.
  • Some cardinality and complexity properties of a Turing degree spectrum, Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988.
  • Los's theorem for ultraproducts of models with monotone quantifiers, Logic Colloquium - European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, Marseille, France, 1981.

Earlier Invited Lectures at Other Universities

  • Effective ultrapowers, Main Seminar, Decidability, Definability and Computability in Number Theory, MSRI, October 9, 2020.
  • Arithmetically categorical structures, Logic Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, June 2019.
  • Effective ultrapowers, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2018.
  • Structure and complexity of orders on structures, Mathematics Colloquium, Southern Illinois University, April 2018,   Video
  • Maximal computably enumerable sets and vector spaces, Research Seminar of the Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna, Austria, December 2014.
  • Orders on groups, their spaces, and complexity, Research Seminar of the Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna, Austria, March 2014.
  • Recursive mathematics, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2013.
  • Effective structures and complexity of their isomorphisms, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, October, 2012.
  • Turing and beyond, Applied Information Sciences Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab, February 2012.
  • Computably enumerable and co-computably enumerable equivalence structures, Research Seminar of the Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna Austria, November 2011.
  • Groups, orders, trees and paths, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2011.
  • Orders on structures, Mathematics Colloquium, George Mason University, College Park, April 2011.
  • Effective equivalence structures and their isomorphisms, Connecticut Logic Seminar, Wesleyan University, November 2010.
  • Orders on groups, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2010.
  • Constructions of modern computability theory, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Texas at Dallas, March 2010.
  • Computable structures, effective categoricity, and Scott families, Logic Seminar, MIT, October 2009.
  • Priority Methods, Women in Mathematics Lecture Series, Department of Mathematics, MIT, October 2009.
  • Orderable groups, Logic Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, May 2009.
  • Effectve Scott families of Abelian p-groups, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, November 18, 2008.
  • Effective categoricity of strucutres, Logic Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville, November 10, 2008.
  • Orderable groups and their spaces of orders, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, November 7, 2008. 
  • From algorisms to computability theory, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Texas at Dallas, September 2008. 
  • Turing, Goedel, and the algorithmic method, Mathematics Colloquium, East Carolina University, April 2008.
  • Effective categoricity of equivalence structures, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2008.
  • Algorithms, undecidability, and incompleteness, Mathematics Colloquium, Howard University, November 2007.
  • Turing computability in theories and structures, Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada, November  2006.
  • Embedding fields into nilpotent groups, Logic Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 27, 2006.
  • Inductive inference of classes of computably enumerable vector spaces, Logic Seminar, Cornell University, December 2004.
  • Intrinsically Sigma-1-alpha relations on computable structures, Logic Seminar, Cornell University, November 2004.
  • Scott families and complexity of isomorphisms, Logic Seminar, Western Illinois University, October 2004.
  • Systems that learn algorithmically generated languages and structures, Mathematics Colloquium, Western Illinois University, October 2004.
  • Computable model theory, Logic Seminar, University of Chicago, May 2004.
  • Using computable algebra in theoretical computer science, University of Notre Dame, April 2004.
  • Computable algebra and algorithmic learning theory, Mathematics Colloquium, East Carolina University, March 2004.
  • Isomorphic images of relations on countable structures, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2004.
  • Learning classes of algebraic structures from positive and negative information, Computer Science Colloquium, University of Delaware, 2003.
  • Algorithmic complexity of countable models, Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science Seminar, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2002.  
  • Post-type properties of relations on structures, Logic Seminar, Western Illinois University, Macomb, October 2002.
  • Computability-theoretic complexity of theories, structures, and relations, Mathematics Colloquium, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 2002.
  • Turing degrees of structure, Logic Seminar, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002.
  • Hyperarithmetical and nonhyperarithmetical relations on structures, Logic Seminar, University of Chicago, 2002.
  • Intrinsic complexity of relations on structures, Southern Wisconsin Logic Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002.
  • Turing complexity of mathematical structures and their relations, Complexity Theory Seminar, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.
  • Turing degrees of hypersimple relations on computable structures, Southern Wisconsin Logic Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000.
  • Simplicity and nowhere simplicity of relations on structures, Logic Seminar, University of Notre Dame, 2000.
  • Computably enumerable relations on computable models, Southern Wisconsin Logic Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999.
  • Computability-theoretic properties of relations on computable models, Logic Seminar, Cornell University, 1998.
  • Algorithmic properties of models, Mathematics Colloquium, East Carolina University, 1997.
  • Computability in mathematical structures, Logic Seminar, Institut fur Logik, Komplexitat und Deduktionssysteme, Karlsruhe University, Germany, 1996.
  • Algorithmic properties of mathematical structures, Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1996.
  • Hilbert's tenth problem, Mathematics Faculty/Student Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995.
  • Recursive homogeneous structures, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, 1991.
  • Turing degrees of computational difficulty, Mathematics Colloquium, George Mason University, 1990.
  • Effective mathematics, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, 1990.
  • An introduction to recursive model theory, Logic Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, 1988.
  • Degree spectrum of a recursive relation on a recursive structure, Logic Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1987.

Selected Presentations at George Washington

  • Isomorphism problem, University Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines, November 2019.
  • Computable mathematics, Graduate Student Seminar, November 2018.
  • Turing computability, guest lecture in Math 2020: Joint Math and Physics Seminar, November 2013.
  • Computable structure theory, GW Research Showcase poster, March 2012.
  • Constructing computable linear orderings with non-computable properties, Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, October 2009.
  • Turing degrees of complexity, Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, December 2008.
  • Computable mathematics, Research Gallery: President Knapp Inauguration Week Research Day, November 2007.
  • Quantum computing, Mathematics Initiative Spring Symposium, January 2007.
  • Formal learning theory based on inductive inference, jointly with Michele Friend (Philosophy), Summary, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium  to launch the mathematics across disciplines initiative, May 2006.
  • Algorithms and oracles in mathematical theories and models, Columbian Research Fellows Lecture, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, April 2005.
  • Hilbert's Tenth Problem: from Diophantus to Matiyasevich, Summer Program for Women in Mathematics, July 2002.
  • Quantum computing, Summer Program for Women in Mathematics, July 2000.
  • Effectiveness in mathematical structures, Summer Program for Women in Mathematics, July 1997.

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