Professor Anand Pillay
Swanlund Chair Emeritus, Univesity 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 Fields Meeting June 2007
Around classification theory workshop, June 2008
Algebraic theory of difference equations, May 2009


Research
Model theory and applications to algebra, geometry and number theory.

Current postgraduate students
Gareth Boxall, Charlotte Kestner, Alexandra Omar Aziz, Davide Penazzi, Rizos Sklinos.

Teaching
Spring 2009:
Combinatorics, MATH 3142

Spring 2008:
"Magic" postgraduate course on Model Theory and applications


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

Stable groups and weight (with K. Krupinski)

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)

NIP and invariant measures (With E. Hrushovski.)
(revised version Jan 2009)

On canonical bases and internality criteria (with R. M oosa)





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