Math 290D, Current Literature Seminar in Logic, on forcing.
 

Time: Tuesdays 3pm to 4:50pm.

Place: MS 5137.

Contact: Itay Neeman.
Office: MS 6334.
Email:
Phone: 794-5317.
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:20pm, and by appointment.
 

The topic for the seminar is forcing. For background on the subject see Math 223S in spring 2011. Topics for the quarter include Prikry forcing, forcing to violate the singular cardinals hypothesis, Laver's forcing for the consistency of the Borel conjecture, and Todorcevic's P-ideal dichotomy under PFA.
 

List of speakers: (Updated as the term progresses.)

10/4, Bill Chen, on Prikry forcing.

10/11, Bill Chen, on generic extensions of elementary embeddings, and the consistent failure of the singular cardinals hypothesis.

10/18, Sherwood Hachtman, on the consistency of the proper forcing axiom.

10/25, Justin Palumbo, on Laver forcing and Borel's conjecture.

11/1, Justin Palumbo, on Laver forcing and Borel's conjecture.

11/8, Quinn Maurmann, on dichotomies for $\omega_1$ generated ideals.

11/15, Sherwood Hachtman, on the P-ideal dichotomy.

11/22, Sherwood Hachtman, on the P-ideal dichotomy.

11/29, Sherwood Hachtman, on the P-ideal dichotomy, and Bill Chen on supercompact Prikry forcing.
 

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