This meeting is being held to honor Gregory Cherlin on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Its focus is on areas of logic and algebra related to Cherlin's work, including model theory, group theory and field theory. The invited speakers include Tuna Altınel, John Baldwin, Ayşe Berkman, Alexandre Borovik, Jeff Burdges, Inna (Korchagina) Capdeboscq, Zoé Chatzidakis, Adrien Deloro, Rostislav Grigorchuk, Ehud Hrushovski, Eric Jaligot, Moshe Jarden, Angus Macintyre, Alexander Ol'shanskii, Bruno Poizat, Zlil Sela, Aner Shalev, Simon Thomas, Pınar Uğurlu, Carol Wood and Şükrü Yalçınkaya.
Program Committee: Alexandre Borovik, Ali Nesin and Simon Thomas.
Local Organizing Committee: Oleg Belegradek, Ayşe Berkman, Özlem Beyarslan, Ali Nesin, David Pierce and Esra Şengelen.
There is no registration fee for this conference. However, if you wish to attend the conference, then you should send an email notifying Esra Şengelen: esengelen AT bilgi.edu.tr
(It is not necessary for speakers to do this.)
The following hotels in the Taksim area of Istanbul are close to the site of the conference:
http://www.germirpalas.com/anasayfa.asp
http://www.themarmarahotels.com/The-Marmara-Istanbul/index.asp
http://www.thegreenpark.com/en/index.asp
http://istanbul.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp
http://istanbul.intercontinental.com.tr/lang_en/general