For the Toronto Set Theory Seminar, I gave the lecture Axiomatizations of abstract elementary classes and natural logics for model theory: the role of partition relations.

Abstract: Two seemingly unrelated questions (the quest for natural logics of abstract elementary classes on the one hand, and the quest for logics adequate to model theory on the other hand) converge around the same combinatorial core: partition relations for scattered order types (due to Kómjath and Shelah). I will present recent results concerning the first question (and axiomatizing a.e.c.’s – joint work with Shelah) and the second question (joint work with Väänänen).