This page is a summary of my professional activities, and has links to many
other pages, see below.
Set theory is fun, see the picture below. The more serious stuff follows.
[If you are not in the mood for maths: some of my numerous opinions
on nonmathematical matters are here .
A mathematical opinion, coming from a woman mathematician who started her career by doing a lot of mathematical competitions is that I boycott and oppose entirely any "girls mathematical olympiad" type events, for example the "European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad" . Mathematics is an activity in which all human beings have an equal chance, we do not need to separate ourselves by gender, race or anything else but our mathematical ability. Girls, don't take to this patronising, if you want to compete, compete with everybody, and win.
This and
and this are
links to my daughter Ada's website [updated October 8, 2010].
Here is a book I have something to do with.
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Prof. 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
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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:
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".
In 2009-2011 I have been the PI on an EPSRC grant on interactions between
model theory, set theory and Banach space theory. Starting October 2010
I am the PI on an EPSRC grant on the possibility of combining forcing axioms and reflection principles at the successor of a singular cardinal. In the past, I have held other large grants from EPSRC and the Leverhulme Trust.
NEW! I am very happy to announce that I'll be a Leverhulme Research Fellow from
May 2014 to May 2015.
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:
NEW: A four month long programme on set theory at the Isaac Newton Institute,
Cambridge. Co-organised with Joan Bagaria
and Benedikt Loewe .
The 4th European Set Theory Meeting, 14-18 July 2013, Barcelona , coorganised with
Joan Bagaria and
Jouko Väänänen .
A one day meeting 'A snapshot of logic-some recent results
mathematical logic' was held on June 16, 2010 in the new
UEA London centre in London.
Coorganised with David Evans
and sponsored by UEA .
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 ,
Piotr Borodulin-Nadzieja ,
James Cummings ,
Gregor K. Dolinar,
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), Zanyar Ameen (current), Gregor Dolinar (University of
Ljubljana, current), Gregory McKay (current), Frederico Oliviera (current),
Francesco Piccoli (current),
Grace Piper (2003),
Alex Primavesi (2011),
Omar Selim (2012), Firoz Shaikh (2007), and
Katherine
Thompson (2003).
Logic Group at UEA:
In addition to the people mentioned above, the logic group at UEA includes:
David
pero , David
Evans , Rob Henderson,
Jonathan Kirby and
Charles Morgan .
From the next year we shall be joined by Thomas Agar.
Our logic group is very active: we have a weekly seminar and a list
of distinguished visitors.
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.
I have been teaching 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 is sometimes followed by an advanced Descriptive Set Theory
course, for example 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 grown and since 2009/10 it runs
as an internet based
MAGIC course.
On the non set-theory front, I have been teaching and coordinating the Analysis course for the second year students at UEA, I love that course!
Another one is HIstory of Logic, which ran as part of our History of Mathematicsmodule.
Professional Activites:
I am the President of the
European Set Theory Society. Please join us if you a set theorist!
The web page is here .
I am the President of the Logic In Europe Committee of the
Association of Symbolic Logic
January 2008-
Member of the Editorial Board for
Mathematical Logic Qaurterly , 2012-present
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 2003-2009.
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.