Category Archives: Invited Talks

MFO workshop in Set Theory, April 2020

The Set Theory workshop in Obwerwolfach was supposed to take place April 2020, but was transformed into a webinar, due to COVID-19. Here you will find the title, abstract, slides and video of my webinar talk. Talk Title: Transformations of … Continue reading

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The 15th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy, September 2019

I gave an invited talk at the 15th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy in Marseille, September 2019. Talk Title: Chain conditions, unbounded colorings and the C-sequence spectrum. Abstract: The productivity of the $\kappa$-chain condition, where $\kappa$ is a regular, … Continue reading

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50 Years of Set Theory in Toronto, May 2019

I gave an invited talk at the 50 Years of Set Theory in Toronto meeting, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, May 2019. Talk Title: Analytic quasi-orders and two forms of diamond Abstract: We study Borel reduction of equivalence relations … Continue reading

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4th Arctic Set Theory Workshop, January 2019

I gave an invited talk at the Arctic Set Theory Workshop 4 in Kilpisjärvi, January 2019. Talk Title: Splitting a stationary set: Is there another way? Abstract: Motivated by a problem in pcf theory, we seek for a new way … Continue reading

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11th Young Set Theory Workshop, June 2018

I gave a 4-lecture tutorial at the 11th Young Set Theory Workshop, Lausanne, June 2018. Title: In praise of C-sequences. Abstract. Ulam and Solovay showed that any stationary set may be split into two. Is it also the case that … Continue reading

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The 14th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy, October 2017

I gave an invited talk at the 14th International Workshop on Set Theory in Luminy in Marseille, October 2017. Talk Title: Distributive Aronszajn trees Abstract: It is well-known that that the statement “all $\aleph_1$-Aronszajn trees are special” is consistent with ZFC … Continue reading

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6th European Set Theory Conference, July 2017

I gave a 3-lecture tutorial at the 6th European Set Theory Conference in Budapest, July 2017. Title: Strong colorings and their applications. Abstract. Consider the following questions. Is the product of two $\kappa$-cc partial orders again $\kappa$-cc? Does there exist … Continue reading

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ASL North American Meeting, March 2017

I gave a plenary talk at the 2017 ASL North American Meeting in Boise, March 2017. Talk Title: The current state of the Souslin problem. Abstract: Recall that the real line is that unique separable, dense linear ordering with no endpoints in … Continue reading

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MFO workshop in Set Theory, February 2017

I gave an invited talk at the Set Theory workshop in Obwerwolfach, February 2017. Talk Title: Coloring vs. Chromatic. Abstract: In a joint work with Chris Lambie-Hanson, we study the interaction between compactness for the chromatic number (of graphs) and … Continue reading

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Set Theory and its Applications in Topology, September 2016

I gave an invited talk at the Set Theory and its Applications in Topology meeting, Oaxaca, September 11-16, 2016. The talk was on the $\aleph_2$-Souslin problem. If you are interested in seeing the effect of a jet lag, the video is … Continue reading

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