Professor Anand Pillay
Swanlund Chair Emeritus, University of Illinois, 2006 - present
Marie Curie Chair
(European Union)
October 2005 - September 2008.

Mathematical Logic
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT

Telephone: (0113) 343 5171
email: pillay @ maths.leeds.ac.uk



Professor Anand Pillay

Past, present and future events at Leeds
Model Theory Seminar
Differential Algebra Seminar
Differential Fields Meeting June 2007
Around classification theory workshop, June 2008
Algebraic theory of difference equations, May 2009
Differential and difference equations, integrable systems, model theory, September 2012


Other conferences and meetings


Research
Model theory, in and for itself, as well as applications  (algebra, geometry, number theory,..).

Current postgraduate students
Charlotte Kestner, Joel Nagloo, Alexandra Omar Aziz, Rizos Sklinos (graduated in 2011, currently in Jerusalem).

Current postdocs
Jakub Gismatullin, Davide Penazzi

Teaching

2011-12
MATH3143 - Combinatorics, Spring 2012
MAGIC course in Model theory, Spring 2012


Brief CV
Complete list of publications


Lecture Notes from a sequence of courses at Illinois and Leeds:
Model Theory
Stability Theory
Applied Stability Theory

Some recent preprints and slides of talks. (Please contact me directly if you want electronic files of other papers from my complete list of publications

Lecture notes on strongly minimal sets with a generic automorphism (graduate course in UIUC, 1999)

Generically stable and smooth measures in NIP theories (with E. Hrushovski and P. Simon).

Generic stability, regularity and quasiminimality (with P. Tanovic).

On genericity and weight in the free group.

Semiabelian varieties over separably closed fields, maximal divisible subgroups, and exact sequences (with F. Benoist and E. Bouscaren).

Logarithmic derivatives on nonconstant commutative algebraic groups. Slides from talk on Modnet meeting, Barcelona, November 2008.

Compact spaces, definability. Slides from Tarski lectures, Berkeley, April 2009.

On central extensions and definably compact groups in o-minimal structures (with E. Hrushovski and Y.Peterzil)

A Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem for semiabelian varieties over function fields (with D. Bertrand)

On NIP and invariant measures (with E. Hrushovski)

Measures in model theory. Slides from talk in Logic and Set theory meeting, Chennai, Aug. 2010

Remarks on unimodularity (with C. Kestner)

Aleph_0-categorical strongly minimal compact complex manifolds (with R. Moosa)

Group covers, o-minimality, and categoricity (with A. Berarducci and Y. Peterzil)

Model Theory

On the isotriviality of projective iterative D-varieties (with P. Kowalski)

Connected components of groups and o-minimality I (with A. Conversano)

Connected components of groups and o-minimality II (with A. Conversano)

A note on generically stable measures and fsg groups (with E. Hrushovski and P. Simon)


Affine Nash groups (with E. Hrushovski)

Model theory, stability, and the free group, Notes from a series of 5 talks at a workshop on geometric group theory and logic, UIC, Aug. 2011


First order theories, Goedel lecture, ASL European Meeting, Barcelona 2011.

Weight and measure in NIP theories

On Levi subgroups and the Levi decomposition for groups definable in o-minimal structures (with A. Conversano)
 
On algebraic relations between solutions of a generic Painlevé equation (with Ronnie Nagloo)

Topological dynamics and definable groups



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