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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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Was Ulam right? III: Indecomposable ideals

Joint work with Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. We continue our study of Ulam’s measure problem. In contrast to our previous works, we shift our focus from measures stratified by their additivity, to measures stratified by their indecomposability. The breakthrough here is … 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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Was Ulam right? II: Small width and general ideals

Joint work with Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. We continue our study of Sierpinski-type colourings. In contrast to the prequel paper, we focus here on colourings for ideals stratified by their completeness degree. In particular, improving upon Ulam’s theorem and its extension … Continue reading

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Was Ulam right? I: Basic theory and subnormal ideals

Joint work with Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. We introduce various coloring principles which generalize the so-called onto mapping principle of Sierpinski to larger cardinals and general ideals. We prove that these principles capture the notion of an Ulam matrix and allow … Continue reading

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