Very very sad news for all of us in the model theory community.

Dr. Zoé Chatzidakis, a brilliant mathematician, loyal friend, fierce advocate for her subject and strong supporter of women and young people. She died on the morning of January 22, 2025.

www.fields.utoronto.ca/news/Memoria...

There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025.
The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech.
www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Con...
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I'm visiting Carnegie Mellon for a week, and giving a talk tomorrow, on some interplay of mathematical logic, combinatorics and theoretical machine learning:
www.cmu.edu/math/news-ev...

The evolution of model theory through the latter half of the 20th century, via Andrew Marks an ChatGPT.

I'm giving a talk at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Logic Workshop on Friday, on externally definable sets, their honest definitions and externally definable groups in NIP structures:
nylogic.github.io/logic-worksh...

I'm giving a talk at Harvard on Monday, on connections of mathematical logic and higher VC-theory for learning in product spaces:
cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloq...

The new book is intended for a first graduate logic course. It grew out of Dave's lecture notes developed over many years teaching this material at the University of Illinois Chicago. A draft of the introduction and table of contents can be found here:
www.math.uic.edu/~marker/ml-w...

Working on my fitness by practicing some very challenging superpositions.

A special issue of the new journal Model Theory is out! On the occasion of Ehud Hrushovski's Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Assaf Hasson, H. Dugald Macpherson and Silvain Rideau-Kikuchi
msp.org/mt/2023/2-2/

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Fourth-wave coffee: Bluestone Lane at the Church of the Heavenly Rest NYC.

Had a great time visiting Wesleyan for a math department colloquium!
The math building has strong Evans hall vibes.

Arrived to Seoul. I haven't slept for 40 hours, waiting to be allowed to check into my hotel and the building next to it started burning.

A couple of weeks ago at the Calanque de Port-Miou near Cassis.

They are definitely available for having an espresso at the UCLA logic center! For any further inquiries contact Aaron Anderson (@awainverse on various platforms).

Blazing my glory on the X website:
https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Chernikov%2C+A