Anand Pillay

William J. Hank Family Professor
of Mathematics



Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame
281 Hurley Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Telephone: (574) 631-8847
email: apillay@nd.edu

I have been Swanlund Chair Emeritus at University of Illinois since 2006.



Professor Anand Pillay



Research
Model theory, as well as applications  (algebra, geometry, number theory,..).

Graduate students

Atticus Stonestrom

 

 

Recent graduate students

 David Meretzky, Nicolas Chavarria Gomez, Greg Cousins

Postdocs

 

 Recent postdocs: Michael Wibmer (now at Leeds), Remi Jaoui (now CNRS), Daniel Hoffmann (now Warsaw), Chieu-Minh Tran (now NUS Singapore)

Teaching

Spring 2026, Introduction to Math. Reasoning.  

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Seminars at Notre Dame.

Model Theory seminar, 11 am, Tuesday. 125 HH.

Logic seminar: 2 pm Tuesdays. 125 HH. 

 

  

  

 

EDITORIAL.

I am  an editor of Algebra and Number Theory ( http://msp.org/publications/journals/#ant),

Editor-in-Chief (joint with Curtis Franks) of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic ( http://www3.nd.edu/~ndjfl/ ),

on the editorial boards of Illinois J. Math., and Journal of Open Math. problems.   


Lecture Notes from a sequence of courses at Illinois 2002-2003:
Model Theory
Stability Theory
Applied Stability Theory

 

Lecture notes from recent advanced courses at Notre Dame.

Model theory of differential fields (and omega-stability) 

Pseudofinite model theory: lectures notes from Fall 2014 course

Categorical Logic. Notes from Spring 2017 course

Stability Theory. Notes from Autumn 2018 course

 

 

 

Slides of some talks

 

Pseudofinite model theory and combinatorics, Mini-course in Fudan, May 2019

Compact spaces, definability. Slides from Tarski lectures, Berkeley, April 2009.

Measures in model theory. Slides from talk in Logic and Set theory meeting, Chennai, Aug. 2010

Model theory, stability, and the free group, Notes from a series of 5 talks at a workshop on geometric group theory and logic, UIC, Aug. 2011

First order theories, Goedel lecture, ASL European Meeting, Barcelona 2011.

 

 

Recent preprints, and other unpublshed things. (Please contact me directly if you want electronic files of other papers from my complete list of publications.)

Lecture notes on strongly minimal sets with a generic automorphism (graduate course in UIUC, 1999)

Model Theory

Remarks on Tao's algebraic regularity lemma (with S. Starchenko).

 

Remarks and questions on infinitesimal stabilizers.

Strongly minimal pseudofinite structures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



University of Notre Dame | Enquiries to: apillay@nd.edu | Updated: 15 January, 2014
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-8847
Fax: (574) 631-6579