Mirna Džamonja

This page is a summary of my professional activities, and has links to many other pages, see below. An important professional activity is to attract and nurture future students of set theory, and the enclosed photo can give you an idea of how this is done :-) The more serious stuff follows.

[If you are not in the mood for maths: some of my numerous opinions on nonmathematical matters are here . What is a miRNA? Who is Maths Amat? ]

This links to my baby daughter's website.

we are working on set theory

Dr Mirna Džamonja
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1603-592981
Fax: +44-1603-593868
email: h020 at uea.ac.uk

Education:

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA , 1993.
M.Sc., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA , 1990.
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Sarajevo , Yugoslavia (Bosnia & Herzegovina), 1988.

Research and Professional Interests:

Set theory and its connections with other fields of mathematics, specifically  model theory, topology, measure theory, analysis and combinatorics.
Within set theory, I  have mostly worked on forcing, large cardinals, pcf theory and infinite combinatorics, but  other
subjects interest me as well. For those readers who are considering studying set theory, a short  introduction to
the subject can be found here.

Papers:

A list of my papers can be found here.

Large Grants:

Recently I spent five years being an Advanced Fellow of ESPRC (2002-2007). This was their grant number GR/A10727/01, for the pdf file of the final report see here. The final overall assessment of the success of the grant by EPSRC was "outstanding". I am now again the PI on an EPSRC grant, starting October 2009.

With Joan Bagaria and Jouko Väänänen I am a co-PI on a large ESF grant `INFTY' ,which is to run for five years from March 2009. Here is its website and a call for funding.

Some conferences I have helped organise:

A conference in honour of Ken Kunen , April 3-5, 2009, Madison, WI, USA Kunen Fest! . Sponsored by the UW-Madison Maths Department and National Science Foundation .

An LMS sponsored meeting on September 25th, 2003 in honour of David H. Fremlin.

With Charles Morgan and more recently, Philip Welch, I have organised a series of meetings on set theory and its connections with other fields of mathematics, more about it can be found here.

Another set of somewhat different meetings are Cameleon Meetings, run jointly by Thomas Forster, John Truss and me.

The latest meeting of STN was held on November 19, 2008 in Bristol, and that of Cameleon meeting on November 29, 2008 in Leeds.

We thank BLC , The St Luke's Institute and LMS for the past and present support.

People I have coauthored maths papers with:

Uri Abraham , Arthur Apter , Taras Banakh , Tomek Bartoszynski , Robert Bonnet , James Cummings , Sy-David Friedman , Lorenz Halbeisen , Michael Hrusak , István Juhász , Peter Komjáth , Kenneth Kunen , Jean Larson , Menachem_Magidor , Bill Mitchell , Justin Moore , Charles Morgan , Eva Murtinova , Grzegorz Plebanek , Anatolij Plichko, Saharon Shelah , Katherine Thompson , Jouko Väänänen .

My Ph.D./D.Phil. students:

Sharifa Al-Mahrooqi (current), Gregor Dolinar (University of Ljubljana, current), Francesco Piccoli (current), Grace (formerly known as Gregory) Piper (2003), Alex Primavesi (current), Omar Selim (current), Firoz Shaikh (2007), and Katherine Thompson (2003).

Other logicians at UEA:

Daniela Amato , Rima Al-Balushi, David Evans , Marco Ferreira, Jo de la Rue and George Lazou. New : Oren Kolman and Jonathan Kirby have joined us from September 2009!

AUTUMN SPECIAL Autumn 2009/2010 Piotr Borudulin-Nadzieja is visiting us for the whole semester.

Teaching:

University of East Anglia uses Blackboard. UEA students can find any teaching related material I have through the UEA web site by accessing the Portal.

In the spring semester of 2006/07, I taught a course on Set Theory at UEA, for levels 3 and 4. The pdf files of the syllabuses (MTH-3E18, MTH-ME18) are available at the UEA MTH Syllabuses page . This course will be continued by a course in Descriptive Set Theory in 2007/2008.

I gave an Intensive Set in Set Theory at the London Taught Courses Centre on May 15 and 16, 2008. More information here . This course has now grown and will run as a MAGIC course. Warch this spot!

Professional Activites:

NEW: Watch this space! I am the Treasurer of the newly formed European Set Theory Society! The web page is coming up.

Member of the Executive Committee and the Logic In Europe Cimmittee of the Association of Symbolic Logic January 2008-
Member of the Editorial Board of the Sarajevo Journal of Mathematics (formerly Radovi Matematički).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Colloquium Mathematicum , 2008-
Secretary to the BLC , January 2001-December 2007.
Member of the EPSRC College.
Member of the ESF Pool of Referees.
Reviews Editor for the The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic .

Outreach activities:

As part of the Royal Society's MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme in 2007 I was paired with Dr Ian Gibson . We collaborated to better understand the role of Mathematics in the Parliament and the way Mathematics is funded. I spent a wonderful week shadowing Dr Gibson in the Parliament and at the end of it we wrote a little article and submitted it to the Royl Society Newsletter. You can see the article here , along with a nice picture of Ian and me in front of the Big Ben.

In March 2009, Ian and I co-organised an event in the Parliament, read all about it here .

Acknowledgement:

Any person mentioned on this page has in one way or another helped me to become a better mathematician, by working with me, teaching me, or letting me share ideas with them. In particular, I am grateful to the late professor Naza Tanović-Miller and professor Harry Miller at the University of Sarajevo and professors Kenneth Kunen (my Ph.D. advisor) and Mary-Ellen Rudin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Saharon Shelah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , for teaching me and supporting me.

I gratefully acknowledge the past and present support of the Academic Study Group, British Council , Energoinvest , EPSRC , European Science Foundation , Lady Davis Foundation, Leverhulme Trust , LMS , National Science Foundation , NATO , The Royal Society and USA-Israel Binational Foundation . I am especially grateful to EPSRC for providing me with an Advanced Research Fellowship for the five years 2002-2007.