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Eisworth

Todd Eisworth

Professor
Faculty Senate
Mathematics

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan
  • B.S. Louisiana State University

Research Interests

  • Set theory and set-theoretic topology
  • Iterated forcing and combinatorial set theory

Biography

Professional Experience

  • 2023-present Professor, Ohio University
  • 2008-2023 Associate Professor, Ohio University
  • 2013-2020 Chair, Department of Mathematics
  • 2004-2008 Assistant Professor, Ohio University
  • 2001-2004 Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa.
  • 2000-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa
  • 1999-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio University
  • 1997-1999 Post-doctoral researcher (under Saharon Shelah), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 1994-1997 Temporary Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

Awards

  • 2023-2024 Presidential Research Scholar, Ohio University
  • 2019-2020 MAC-ALDP Fellow
  • 2007-2008 Grasselli Faculty Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University
  • 2004 University Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Northern Iowa
  • 1994 Sumner Myers Prize, University of Michigan

Doctoral Students

  • Laura Dolph-Bosley (Ph.D. awarded 2009) Applications of elementary submodels in topology
  • Douglas Hoffman (Ph.D. awarded 2013) A coloring theorem for inaccessible cardinals 
  • Frank Ballone (Ph.D. awarded 2017) -sets and the  selection principle
  • Michael Perron (Ph.D. awarded 2017) On the structure of independent families
  • Shehzad Ahmed (Ph.D. awarded 2019) Progressive ideals in combinatorial set theory

Selected Journal Publications

  • Eisworth, T. (2023) The pseudopower dichotomy, Journal of Symbolic Logic.
  • Eisworth, T. (2023) A note on the Revised GCH, Topology Appl.
  • Eisworth, T. (2022) Representability and compactness for pseudopowers, Archive for Mathematical Logic 61, no. 1-2, 55-80.
  • Dow, A. & Eisworth, T. (2015) CH and the Moore-Mrowka problem, Topology Appl. 195, 226-238.

Book Chapters

  • Eisworth, T. (2010) Successors of Singular Cardinals. In Handbook of Set Theory, Matthew Foreman and Akihiro Kanamori eds., Chapter 15 1229-1350, Springer, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4020-4843-2. 
  • Eisworth, T. (2007) On D-spaces. In Open Problems in Topology II, Elliott Pearl ed., Chapter 13, 129- 134, Elsevier Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. ISBN 0-444-52208-5. 
  • Eisworth, T., Moore, J.T., & Milovich, D. (2013) Iterated forcing and the Continuum Hypothesis, In Appalachian Set Theory: 2006-2012James Cummings and Ernest Schimmerling eds., Chapter 7 207-244, Cambridge University Press (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series v. 406) 2013. ISBN:9781107608504.

Selected Presentations

  • Galvin’s Conjecture and Weakly Precipitous Ideals Workshop on Set- theoretic Topology, Casa Matematica Oaxaca, Mexico 2023
  • What ELSE is PCF theory good for? New Directions in Set Theoretic Topology, University of Pittsburgh 2022
  • On club and its relatives, Advances in Set Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2022
  • Representability and Pseudopowers, European Set Theory Conference, Vienna, Austria 2019

Invited External Colloquia and Seminars         

  • New Minimal Linear Orderings, Notre Dame Logic Seminar, October 4, 2022
  • Three Lectures on Totally Proper Forcing, Carolina Topology Seminar (virtual) Summer 2022.
  • The Revised GCH, Cornell Logic Seminar, Ithaca NY, September 2021.
  • Some new(?) useless(?) results in cardinal arithmetic, Carolina Topology Seminar, Charlotte (virtual), October 16, 2020. 
  • Representability and Pseudopowers, Toronto Set Theory Seminar, Toronto (virtual) April 24, 2020. 
  • An Introduction to cov vs. pp, Cornell Logic Seminar, Ithaca NY, 2019 
  • A proof of cov vs. pp, Toronto Set Theory and Topology Seminar, Toronto, November 23, 2012. 
  • On Jonsson Cardinals, Miami University Set Theory/Topology Seminar, Oxford, OH April 20, 2006. 
  • Coloring Theorems, Carnegie-Mellon Mathematical Logic Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, October 28, 2004. 
  • CH and the Moore-Mrowka problem (2 lectures), University of Toronto Set Theory Seminar, Toronto, ON Canada, August 2-3, 2000. 
  • CH, wD, and the Moore-Mrowka problem (2 lectures), University of Toronto Set Theory Seminar, Toronto, ON, Canada July 28 and August 4, 1999.
  • Gently Killing S-spaces, University of Toronto Set Theory Seminar, March 24, 1999 
  • How Strong is the Continuum Hypothesis?, Mathematics Department Ohio University, Athens, OH. October 1998.
  • How Strong is the Continuum Hypothesis?, Mathematics Department University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, October 1997

Funded Grants

  • NSF Grant DMS 0506063 “Problems on Homogeneous Compacta” (co. PI with A. Arhangelskii) $147,963  2005-2007.
  • US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant No. 2002323  “Forcing for Set Theory of the Reals” (co-PI with A. Blass, A. Roslanowski, and S. Shelah) 2003-2006.