Seminar series
          
      Date
              Thu, 30 Oct 2008
      
      
          Time
        17:00 - 
        18:00
          Location
              L3
          Speaker
              Jochen Koenigsmann
          Organisation
              Oxford
          I will present a universal definition of the integers in the field of rational numbers, building on work discussed by Bjorn Poonen in his seminar last term. I will also give, via model theory, a geometric criterion for the non-diophantineness of Z in Q.