Category Archives: Invited Talks

The 18th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy, November 2015

I gave an invited talk at the 18th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy in Marseille, November 2025. Talk Title: What is a higher forcing axiom? Abstract: There are multiple interpretations of what is a forcing axiom. We shall … Continue reading

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Conference in honor of Saharon Shelah’s 80th birthday

I gave an invited talk at the conference in honor of Shelah’s 80th birthday, July 2025. Talk Title: Marginalia to [Sh:365] Abstract: Solovay famously proved that every stationary subset of a regular uncountable cardinal kappa may be decomposed into kappa … Continue reading

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2025 Annual conference of the IMU

I gave an invited talk at the Set Theory session of the annual meeting of the IMU, July 2025. Talk Title: What my co-authors taught me about indecomposability Abstract: Ulam’s measure problem studies when there is a countably-additive two-valued measure … Continue reading

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MFO workshop in Set Theory, January 2025

I gave an invited talk at the Set Theory meeting in Obwerwolfach, January 2025. Talk Title: Non-structure theorems for higher Aronszajn lines. Abstract: An $\omega_1$-Countryman line is an uncountable linear order  $L$ such that $L^2$ (with the pointwise ordering) is … Continue reading

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120 Years of Choice, July 2024

I gave an invited talk at the 120 Years of Choice conference, July 2024. Talk Title: Mathematician’s best friend Abstract: Jensen’s diamond is a very useful postulate. It is well-known that it implies the continuum hypothesis, that it is equivalent … Continue reading

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Perspectives on Set Theory, November 2023

I gave an invited talk at the Perspectives on Set Theory conference, November 2023. Talk Title: May the successor of a singular cardinal be Jónsson? Abstract: We’ll survey what’s known about the question in the title and collect ten open … Continue reading

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Gdańsk Logic Conference, May 2023

I gave an invited talk at the first Gdańsk Logic Conference, May 2023. Talk Title: Was Ulam right? Abstract: An Ulam matrix is one of the earliest gems of infinite combinatorics. Around the same time of its discovery, another Polish … Continue reading

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A series of lectures on Club_AD, February–March 2023

As part of the Thematic Program on Set Theoretic Methods in Algebra, Dynamics and Geometry (Fields Institute, January–June, 2023), Spencer Unger and I delivered a Graduate Course on Set Theory, Algebra and Analysis. My part of the course was a … Continue reading

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Winter School in Abstract Analysis, January 2023

I gave a 3-lecture tutorial at the Winter School in Abstract Analysis in Steken, January 2023. Title: Club guessing Abstract. Club guessing principles were introduced by Shelah as a weakening of Jensen’s diamond. Most spectacularly, they were used to prove … Continue reading

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MFO workshop in Set Theory, January 2022

I gave an invited talk at the Set Theory meeting in Obwerwolfach, January 2022. Talk Title: A dual of Juhasz’ question Abstract: Juhasz asked whether $\clubsuit$ implies the existence of a Souslin tree. Here we settle the dual problem of … Continue reading

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