Series: Penn State Logic Seminar

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Time: 2:30 - 3:45 PM

Place: 312 Boucke Building

Speaker: Elizabeth T. Brown, Mathematics, Dartmouth

Title: Tree Forcing At Uncountable Cardinals

Abstract: 

The method of forcing closed the first chapter of set theoretic
investigation by demonstrating the independence of the continuum
hypothesis; at the same time, it opened the rich new field of general
independence results generally.  Since then, it has been applied to a
wide variety of problems across the foundations of mathematics, and
analysis.  In this talk, we will discuss a recently systematized type
of forcing, tree forcings at unocuntable cardinals. We will motivate
the topic by reviewing iterated tree forcings over $\omega$
Throughout, the emphasis will be on context, intuition, and
motivation. The talk will be accessible to graduate students.