Moshe Kamensky

I am currently a postdoc at the Mathematics department of Notre-Dame University, where I work with Sergei Starchenko.

I was previously a postdoc at the Pure Math department of the University of Waterloo. I worked there with Rahim Moosa.

Before that I was a Modnet postdoc at the maths department of the University of East-Anglia, where I worked with David Evans.

My full CV is available. My contact details are below.

Research interests

I am interested in model theory, and its applications to other areas of mathematics, especially to algebraic geometry and algebra. I also like algebraic geometry in general, as well as category theory. A more detailed description of my past and planned research is available.

Teaching

I am currently teaching a Graduate model theory course on the model theory of difference fields (ACFA). My notes are being written on the fly.

During spring 2008 I taught the course Introduction to Group Theory (PMath 336, lecture notes).

During fall 2007, I was teaching Linear Algebra for Engineers (Math 115). My lecture notes are available.

Papers and pre-prints

All my papers are also available on the arXiv.

• Model theory and the Tannakian formalism, submitted
• Definable groups of partial automorphisms, Selecta Mathematica, New Series 15 (2009)
• The model completion of the theory of modules over finitely generated commutative algebras, J. Symbolic Logic 74 (2009)
• Ind- and pro- definable sets, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 147 (2007)

Lecture notes

Here are some notes, mainly from lectures I gave.

• Definable groups of Automorphisms This a summary of the main part of my thesis
• Model theory of Tannakian categories A proof of the group reconstruction theorem via model theory
• Differential tensor categories Tannakian formalism for differential linear groups, with model theoretic proofs
• Motivic integration An introductory review of motivic integration, following Loeser and Hrushovski-Kazhdan
• Differential Galois theory An introduction to Galois theory of linear differential equations

Links

The Logic seminar at Waterloo

The Model theory seminar at McMaster

The Working model thoery seminar at McMaster

Model theory, algebra and geometry A book on model theory and its applications

Milne's lecture notes

Books by Michael Singer, including an on-line version of the book on differential Galois theory

Scans of the SGA

This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics A column of John Baez (nothing to do with physics, apparently)

The Acme Klein bottle

Contact

Email

kamensky.1@nd.edu

Phone

+1 574 631 5451

Snail mail

      Department of Mathematics,
      255 Hurley Hall,
      Notre-Dame University, IN, 46556
      USA
      

PGP key

1024D/C28C05E3
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