Working seminar on Approximate Groups

Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction"

We intend in this seminar to read Lou van den Dries’ Seminaire Bourbaki article entitled ”Approx- imate Groups [after Hrushovski, and Breuillard, Green, Tao]”. The subject involves the interaction of additive combinatorics and model theory. I will give an informal introduction, focusing on the statement of the main theorem.