O-minimal structures on the real field have many desirable properties. As examples: (a) Hausdorff (and even packing) dimension agrees with topological dimension on locally closed definable sets. (b) Locally closed definable sets have few rational points (in the sense of the Pila-Wilkie Theorem). (c) For each positive integer p, every closed definable set is the zero set of a definable C^p function. (d) Connected components of definable sets are definable.But to what extent is o-minimality necessary for these properties to hold? I will discuss this question, and illustrate via examples […]

Expanding a model theoretically `tame' structure in a way that it stays `tame' has been a theme in the recent years. In the first part of this talk, we present a history of work done in that frame. Then we focus on the case of expansions of o-minimal structures by a unary predicate. There is a dividing line according to whether the predicate is dense or discrete

Compter les points rationnels de hauteur bornée dans le graphe d'une fonction, ou plus généralement d'une courbe (plane), se ramène à estimer le nombre Z_d de points d'intersection de cette courbe avec un ensemble algébrique de degré d donné. J'expliquerai - d'une part comment on peut produire des familles de fonctions analytiques sur telle que Z_d est polynomialement borné en d, et comment une telle borne assure que le graphe d'une telle fonction recèle moins de log?(T) points rationnels de hauteur < T, - d'autre part comment on peut traiter […]