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                     August 8-12, 2011 
                      o-minimal Structures and Real Analytic Geometry Retrospective 
                      Workshop 
                      hosted by the Fields Institute,  
                      to be held at Bahen Centre Information Tech 
                      40 St. George Street, Room 1220 
                  
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                   Organizing Committee: 
                     
                    Patrick Speissegger (McMaster) 
                    Chris Miller (Ohio State University)  
                    Jean-Philippe Rolin (Université de Bourgogne) 
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            OVERVIEW 
            Two years ago, we ran a thematic program on o-minimality and real 
            analytic geometry. Its main focus was on extending local resolution 
            of singularities techniques in order to establish the o-minimality 
            of certain expansions of the real field, such as those generated by 
            the functions studied by Ilyashenko and Ecalle in his proof of Dulacs 
            problem. Many recent developments in the intersection of o-minimality 
            and real analytic geometry use resolution of singularities in crucial 
            ways, and they can in turn be viewed as extending the notion of resolution 
            of singularities in the sense of the preparation theorems mentioned 
            above. There is good reason to believe that extending resolution algorithms 
            to certain classes of functions involving exponential scales may help 
            shed new light on various interesting problems in real analytic geometry, 
            coming from Pfaffian geometry and dynamical systems. Examples of particular 
            interest to us are the classes of multisummable and of resurgent functions. 
            This workshop will survey progress made during and after our programme, 
            with a particular emphasis on work done by the (then) more junior 
            participants. 
             So far, the following have agreed to speak at the workshop: 
             
              Matthias Aschenbrenner, University of California, Los 
                Angeles  
                Gal Binyamini, Weizmann Institute, Israel 
                Raf Cluckers, Université Lille 1, France and K.U. 
                Leuven, Belgium 
                Andrei Gabrielov, Purdue University 
                Philipp Hieronymi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
                USA 
                Gareth Owen Jones, University of Manchester, UK  
                Olivier Le Gal, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain 
                Tobias Kaiser, Universität Passau  
                Jana Mariková, McMaster University and Western Illinois 
                University 
                Dan Miller, Emporia State University 
                Daniel Panazzolo, Université de Mulhouse, France  
                Sanjay Patel, McMaster 
                Fernando Sanz, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain  
                Tamara Servi, CMAF Lisbon, Portugal  
                Masahiro Shiota, Nagoya University 
                Michael Tychonievich, The Ohio State University, USA  
                Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
                Nicolai Vorobjov, University of Bath 
             
            Workshop Schedule
            
               
                | Monday August 8 | 
               
               
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                   9:20 - 9:30 
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                Welcome and Introduction 
                  Workshop Organizers | 
               
               
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                   9:30 - 10:30 
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                Tobias Kaiser (Universität Passau) 
                  Spherical blowing up | 
               
               
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                   10:30 - 11:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:00 - 12:00 
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                Gal Binyamini (Weizmann Institute, Israel) 
                  Multiplicity and order of contact for regular and singular 
                  foliations | 
               
               
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                   12:00 - 2:00 
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                Lunch Break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 - 3:00 
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                Tamara Servi (CMAF Lisbon, Portugal) 
                  Quantifier elimination for generalised quasi-analytic 
                  algebras of real functions | 
               
               
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                   3:00 - 3:30 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:30 - 4:30 
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                Lou van den Dries (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 
                  A progress report on the model theory of H-fields  | 
               
               
                | Tuesday August 9 | 
               
               
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                   9:30 - 10:30 
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                Philipp Hieronymi (University of Illinois at 
                  Urbana-Champaign, USA) 
                  A dichotomy for expansions of the real 
                  field | 
               
               
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                   10:30 - 11:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:00 - 12:00 
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                Sanjay Patel (McMaster) 
                  o-minimal expansions by quasi-analytic functions of one 
                  variable  | 
               
               
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                   12:00 - 2:00 
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                Lunch Break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 - 3:00 
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                Jana Mariková (McMaster University and Western Illinois 
                  University) 
                  Definable sets in o-minimal fields with convex valuations 
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                   3:00 - 3:30 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:30 - 4:30 
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                Masahiro Shiota, Nagoya University 
                  How to avoid method of integration of vector fields in 
                  singularity theory | 
               
               
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                   5:00 - 6:00 
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                Reception  
                  Fields Atrium - cash bar | 
               
               
                | Wednesday August 10 | 
               
               
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                   9:30 - 10:30 
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                Raf Cluckers (Université Lille 1, France and K.U. Leuven, 
                  Belgium) | 
               
               
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                   10:30 - 11:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:00 - 12:00 
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                Olivier Le Gal (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) | 
               
               
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                   12:00 - 2:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 - 3:00 
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                Gareth Owen Jones (University of Manchester, UK) 
                  Integer-valued definable functions | 
               
               
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                   3:00 - 3:30 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:30 - 4:30 
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                Fernando Sanz (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) 
                  On restricted Analytic Gradients on Analytic Isolated 
                  Surface Singularities | 
               
               
                | Thursday August 11 | 
               
               
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                   9:30 - 10:30 
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                Margaret Thomas (Universität Konstanz) 
                  Counting 
                  Rational Points on Certain Pfaffian Sets | 
               
               
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                   10:30 - 11:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:00 - 12:00 
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                Daniel Panazzolo (Université de Mulhouse, France) 
                  Center manifolds for holomorphic 
                  three-dimensional vector fields | 
               
               
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                   12:00 - 2:00 
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                Lunch Break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 - 3:00 
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                Nicolai Vorobjov (University of Bath) 
                  Approximation of definable sets 
                  by compact families, and upper bounds on homotopy and homology 
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                   3:00 - 3:30 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:30 - 5:30 
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                Open discussion meeting 
                  *Fields Institute - 3rd Floor Stewart Library* | 
               
               
                | Friday August 12 | 
               
               
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                   9:30 - 10:30 
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                Matthias Aschenbrenner (University of California, 
                  Los Angeles)  
                  Vapnik-Chervonenkis density in model 
                  theory  | 
               
               
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                   10:30 - 11:00 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:00 - 12:00 
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                Michael Tychonievich (The Ohio State University, 
                  USA) 
                  The set of restricted complex exponents for expansions 
                  of the reals | 
               
               
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                   12:00 - 2:00 
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                Lunch Break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 - 3:00 
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                Andrei Gabrielov, Purdue University 
                  Semi-monotone sets and triangulation 
                  of tame monotone families | 
               
             
             
            CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS 
             
              
                 
                  | Full Name | 
                  University/Affiliation | 
                 
                 
                  | Aschenbrenner, Matthias | 
                  University of California, Los Angeles | 
                 
                 
                  | Bierstone, Edward | 
                  The Fields Institute | 
                 
                 
                  | Binyamini, Gal | 
                  Weizmann Institute of Science | 
                 
                 
                  | Cluckers, Raf | 
                  Université Lille 1 | 
                 
                 
                  | Comte, Georges | 
                  Université de Savoie | 
                 
                 
                  | Dolich, Alfred | 
                  East Stroudsburg Univesity | 
                 
                 
                  | Freitag, James | 
                  University of Illinois at Chicago | 
                 
                 
                  | Glaze, Peter | 
                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
                 
                 
                  | Hart, Bradd | 
                  McMaster University | 
                 
                 
                  | Haskell, Deirdre | 
                  McMaster University | 
                 
                 
                  | Hieronymi, Philipp | 
                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
                 
                 
                  | Jones, Gareth | 
                  University of Manchester | 
                 
                 
                  | Kaiser, Tobias | 
                  University of Passau | 
                 
                 
                  | Kuhlmann, Salma | 
                  University of Konstanz | 
                 
                 
                  | Le Gal, Olivier | 
                  Universidad de Valladolid | 
                 
                 
                  | Maríková, Jana | 
                  McMaster University | 
                 
                 
                  | Miller, Christopher L. | 
                  Ohio State University | 
                 
                 
                  | Miller, Daniel | 
                  Emporia State University | 
                 
                 
                  | Panazzolo, Daniel | 
                  Université de Haute-Alsace | 
                 
                 
                  | Patel, Sanjay | 
                  McMaster University | 
                 
                 
                  | Pawlucki, Wieslaw | 
                  Jagiellonian University | 
                 
                 
                  | Rainer, Armin | 
                  University of Vienna | 
                 
                 
                  | Randriambololona, Serge | 
                  University of Western Ontario | 
                 
                 
                  | Rolin, Jean-Philippe | 
                  Université de Bourgogne | 
                 
                 
                  | Sanz, Fernando | 
                  University of Valladolid | 
                 
                 
                  | Servi, Tamara | 
                  Universidade de Lisboa | 
                 
                 
                  | Shiota, Masahiro | 
                  Nagoya University | 
                 
                 
                  | Speissegger, Patrick | 
                  McMaster University | 
                 
                 
                  | Thamrongthanyalak, Athipat | 
                  University of California, Los Angeles | 
                 
                 
                  | Thomas, Margaret | 
                  Universität Konstanz | 
                 
                 
                  | van den Dries, Lou | 
                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
                 
                 
                  | Vásquez Rifo, Elissa | 
                  University of Talca | 
                 
                 
                  | Vera Pacheco, Franklin | 
                  University of Toronto | 
                 
                 
                  | Vorobjov, Nicolai | 
                  University of Bath | 
                 
               
               
                 
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