College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty
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: 2006-2012, James 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.