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web | www.wohofsky.eu |
I'm a mathematician working in set theory. I'm mainly interested in (iterated) forcing, its application to set theory of the reals, and special sets of real numbers.
Since 2015, I work as a postdoc at the University of Hamburg, in the Mathematical Logic group of Prof. Benedikt Löwe.
2000 | Reifeprüfung (High School Diploma) at the Europagymnasium Klagenfurt |
Fall 2000 | Begin of studying "Technische Mathematik" at the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) |
Oct 2004 - Sept 2005 | Zivildienst (substitute for military service) |
Apr 2008 | Awarded degree of "Diplom-Ingenieur der Technischen Mathematik" (Master of Science in Mathematics). Diploma thesis: On the existence of p-points and other ultrafilters in the Stone-Cech-compactification of N (advisor: Martin Goldstern). |
Fall 2008 | Begin of my PhD studies (advisor: Martin Goldstern). |
2010 - 2011 | Recipient of the DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Oct 2013 | Finishing my PhD. Awarded degree of "Doktor der Technischen Wissenschaften"
PhD thesis: Special sets of real numbers and variants of the Borel Conjecture (advisor: Martin Goldstern) |
2005 - | Several seminar talks at the Kurt Gödel Research Center (University of Vienna) and the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry (Vienna University of Technology) |
Oct 2007 | Poster presentation at the International Student Research Conference "Einsteins in the City 2" (at The City College of New York) |
June 2008 | UltraMath 2008, Applications of Ultrafilters and Ultraproducts in Mathematics, Pisa, Italy |
Sept - Oct 2008 | One-month stay in Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey)
Cooperation with Saharon Shelah |
Feb 2009 | Winter School in Abstract Analysis 2009, section Topology, Hejnice, Czech Republic |
April 2009 | Young Set Theory Workshop 2009, Bellaterra (near Barcelona), Spain |
June 2009 | ESI Workshop on Large Cardinals and Descriptive Set Theory, Vienna, Austria |
Sept 2009 | Two-week stay at the Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm (during the fall 2009 scientific program "Mathematical Logic: Set theory and model theory")
Cooperation with Saharon Shelah |
Feb 2010 | Young Set Theory Workshop 2010, Raach (near Vienna), Austria |
May 2010 | New York Graduate Student Logic Conference 2010
Contributed Talk: "Small subsets of the real line and variants of the Borel Conjecture" |
Feb 2011 | Winter School in Abstract Analysis, section Set Theory, Hejnice, Czech Republic
Contributed Talk: "Borel Conjecture and dual Borel Conjecture (and other variants of the Borel Conjecture)" |
March 2011 | Young Set Theory Workshop 2011, Königswinter (near Bonn), Germany |
June 2011 | "Infinite and finite sets, celebrating Hajnal's 80th birthday", Budapest, Hungary
Contributed Talk: presenting an outline of our paper "Borel Conjecture and dual Borel Conjecture" |
July 2011 | Third European Set Theory Conference, Edinburgh, Great Britain |
Aug 2011 | TOPOSYM, 11th Topological Symposium, International Conference on General Topology and its Relations to Modern Analysis and Algebra, Prague, Czech Republic
Contributed Talk: "Marczewski Borel Conjecture and sigma-ideals dense in Sacks forcing" |
Nov 2011 | Invited Talk, research seminar of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, Germany, presenting the paper "Borel Conjecture and dual Borel Conjecture" |
Nov 2011 | Workshop on Definability and Ideals, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Contributed Talk |
Jan 2012 | Talk at Joint FWF-JSPS Seminar on Forcing in Set Theory, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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March 2012 | Invited for a series of talks at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland. Two talks about "Borel Conjecture and dual Borel Conjecture", one talk about "Sacks dense ideals" |
May 2012 | 5th Young Set Theory Workshop, CIRM, Luminy (near Marseille), France |
July 2012 | Trends in set theory, Warsaw, Poland
Contributed Talk: "Variants of the Borel Conjecture and Sacks dense ideals" |
Nov 2012 | Miniworkshop at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Contributed Talk: "Galvin Mycielski Solovay Theorem Revisited: Characterizing Strong Measure Zero Sets in Topological Groups" |
Jan 2013 | Winter School in Abstract Analysis, section Set Theory, Hejnice, Czech Republic
Contributed Talk |
June 2013 | 6th Young Set Theory Workshop, Santuario di Oropa (near Turin/Milano), Italy |
July 2013 | Erdős Centennial, Budapest, Hungary |
July 2013 | Sy David Friedman's 60th-Birthday Conference, Vienna, Austria |
July 2013 | 4th European Set Theory Conference, Mon St Benet (near Barcelona), Spain |
Sep/Oct 2013 | ESI 2013 Set Theory Programme, Forcing, Large Cardinals and Descriptive Set Theory, Vienna, Austria |
Oct 2013 | PhD defense, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria |
Oct 2013 | Mostowski100, Andrzej Mostowski Centenary Conference, Warsaw, Poland |
Nov 2013 | Invited Talk, research seminar at the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University/Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic |
2004 - 2008 | "Tutor für Maschinenbau" and "Tutor für Bauingenieurwesen", Mathematik 1 and 2 (Teaching Assistant for Students of Engineering). |
2015 - current | Teaching students of physics at University of Hamburg (Mathematik 1 - Mathematik 4) |