Polish Groups, Polish Actions, and Applications
by
Paul Gartside
University of Pittsburgh

A 3 part mini-course on some aspects of descriptive set theory and its applications to:

1) understanding the hierarchy of classification problems (work of Kechris, Thomas and others) 2) understanding the algebraic and topological structure of Polish groups (work of Gartside, Knight and others).

Date received: June 14, 2004