Department of         Mathematical Sciences Events People Colloquia and Seminars Conferences Centers Positions Areas of Research About the Department Alumni Model Theory Seminar Sebastien Vasey Carnegie Mellon University Title: A proof of Shelah's eventual categoricity conjecture in universal classes, Part 1 Abstract: Abstract elementary classes (AECs) are an axiomatic framework encompassing classes of models of an $\mathbb{L}_{\infty, \omega}$ theory, as well as numerous algebraic examples. They were introduced by Saharon Shelah forty years ago. Shelah focused on generalizations of Morley's categoricity theorem and conjectured the following eventual version: An AEC categorical in a high-enough cardinal is categorical on a tail of cardinals. I will present my proof of the conjecture for universal classes. They are a special case of AECs (studied by Shelah in a milestone 1987 paper) corresponding to classes of models of a universal $\mathbb{L}_{\infty, \omega}$ theory. I will initially discuss the proof with the additional assumption that the universal class satisfies the amalgamation property. In this case, the argument generalizes to AECs which have amalgamation, are tame (a locality property for orbital types isolated by Grossberg and VanDieren), and have primes over sets of the form $Ma$. Time permitting, I will discuss how to use Shelah's structure theory of universal classes to remove the amalgamation assumption.Date: Monday, March 14, 2016Time: 5:00 pmLocation: Wean Hall 7201Submitted by:  Grossberg