The Homepage of Greg Cousins

Personal Information


Full name: Gregory Cousins 
Address:
 McMaster University
  Department of Mathematics & Statistics  
  Hamilton Hall 316  
  1280 Main Street West  
  Hamilton, Ontario  
  L8S 4L8  
  Canada 
Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 27365
email: gcousins_at_alumni.nd.edu
or: cousingd_at_mcmaster.ca
or: cousingd_at_math.mcmaster.ca

About Me

I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University . My current interests include model theory and its interactions with other areas of mathematics. In particular, I am interested in the model theory of fields, and in connections between model theory and algebraic geometry and number theory. I also have a soft spot for the foundations of physics.
My PhD advisor was Anand Pillay.

My CV

Publications and Preprints:

  • Quentin Brouette, Greg Cousins, Anand Pillay & Francoise Point (2018) Embedded Picard–Vessiot extensions, Communications in Algebra, 46:11, 4609-4615, DOI: 10.1080/00927872.2018.1448848
  • Campion, Tim, Greg Cousins, and Jinhe Ye. "Classifying spaces and the Lascar group." Published 2021, Journal of Symbolic Logic https://www.doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2021.74

    Notes:

  • Corps et Chirurgie (Fields and Surgery) - An english translation of the paper by Pillay and Poizat.
  • Pseudofinite Model Theory - Notes taken by students attending a topics course given by Anand Pillay in the Fall of 2014 at Notre Dame.
  • Categorical Logic - Notes taken by students attending a topics course given by Anand Pillay in 2017 at Notre Dame.
  • Hrushovski's PhD Thesis - A good quality copy of Hrushovski's PhD thesis that I've converted to a (mostly) searchable file.
  • The Elementary Theory of Regularly Closed Fields - An unpublished and influential paper by Cherlin, van den Dries, and MacIntyre on the model theory of PAC fields.

    Teaching

    I am currently the instructor for:
  • Math 3IA3 (Intro to Real Analysis)
  • Stats 3Y03/3J04 (Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers)
  • Stats 2D03 (Graduate Algebra) Winter 2021
  • Stats 2MB3 (Statistical Methods) - on Childsmath
  • Coordinator for Math 1M03 (Calculus for Business, Humanities and the Social Sciences) - on Childsmath
  • Stats 4A03/6A03 (Time Series Analysis) - on Avenue2Learn
    Fall 2020
  • Math 1C03 (Intro to Mathematical Reasoning)
  • Stats 3Y03 (Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers)
  • Math 701 (Graduate Algebra)
    Winter 2020
  • Math 1C03 (Intro to Mathematical Reasoning)
  • Math 1B03/1ZC3 (Linear Algebra I)
  • Math 2R03 (Linear Algebra II)
    Fall 2019:
  • Stats 2D03 (Intro to Probability)
  • Stats 3Y03/3J04 (Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers)

    Links:

  • A Map of the Model Theory Universe created by Gabe Conant!
  • McMaster Logic
  • Oxford Logic Group
  • Notre Dame Logic Group






    Thanks to Boris Zilber for inspiring this webpage!