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Prof. Dr. Stefan Geschke

E-mail: stefan.geschke(at)hcm.uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 228 73 62221
Homepage: http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/homepages/prof-dr-stefan-geschke/
Room: 2.003
Location: Villa Maria
Institute: Mathematical Institute
Research Area: Research Area L
Birthdate: 14.Nov 1970
Mathscinet-Number: 681801

Publications

Academic Career

1995

Diploma in Mathematics, FU Berlin

1995--2001

Assistant, FU Berlin

1998--1999

Assistant, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan

2000--2001

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion, Israel

2000--2006

Assistant Professor, FU Berlin

2006--2008

Assistant Professor (tenure track), Boise State University, Idaho

2009--

Professor (W2, Bonn Junior Fellow), Bonn University

Research profile

My research is centered around applications of combinatorial set theory and forcing to geometry, topology, algebra and analysis. However, I am also interested in finite combinatorics and complexity.

More specifically, I am working on questions concerning the classification of definable graphs on Polish spaces and on problems about automorphisms of the Boolean algebra \mathcal P(\omega)/{\tt fin} and the Calkin algebra.

Selected Publications

[1] S. Geschke, Babinkostova et al. Editors
The coinitialities of Efimov spaces, Set Theory and its Applications
Contemporary Mathematics , 533: : 259--265
2011
[2] S. Geschke
Weak Borel chromatic numbers
Mathematical Logic Quarterly , 57: : 5--13
2011
[3] S. Geschke, S. Fuchino, L. Soukup
How to drive our families mad
Archive for Mathematical Logic
2011
[4] S. Frick , S. Geschke
Basis theorems for continuous n-colorings
Journal of Combinatorial Theory A
, 118: : 1334--1349
2011
[5] S. Geschke, M. Kojman
Symmetrized induced Ramsey theorems
Graphs and Combinatorics
2011
[6] Stefan Geschke
Low-distortion embeddings of infinite metric spaces into the real line
Ann. Pure Appl. Logic
, 157: (2-3): 148--160
2009
ISSN: 0168-0072
DOI: 10.1016/j.apal.2008.09.014
[10] Stefan Geschke, Martin Goldstern, Menachem Kojman
Continuous Ramsey theory on Polish spaces and covering the plane by functions
J. Math. Log. , 4: (2): 109--145
2004
ISSN: 0219-0613
DOI: 10.1142/S0219061304000334
[11] Stefan Geschke, Saharon Shelah
The number of openly generated Boolean algebras
J. Symbolic Logic , 73: (1): 151--164
2008
ISSN: 0022-4812
File: http://http://projecteuclid.org/getRecord?id=euclid.jsl/1208358746
[12] Stefan Geschke, Menachem Kojman
Metric Baumgartner theorems and universality
Math. Res. Lett. , 14: (2): 215--226
2007
ISSN: 1073-2780

Awards

2002

Best Teaching in Mathematics, FU Berlin

2006

Finalist Kurt Goedel Research Fellowship, postdoc category

Invited Lectures

2004

Cardinal Arithmetic at Work, Jerusalem

2007

ASL Annual Meeting in Gainesville, Florida

2010

Logic Colloquium, Section Set Theory, Paris

Editorships

Set Theory and its Applications, Contemporary Mathematics 533 (2011)

Research Projects and Activities

PI of the DFG project "Continuous Ramsey theory in higher dimensions". NSF standard grant for "Filtrations of Boolean algebras and related structures". PI in the GIF project "New problems in set theory and Boolean algebra".

Contribution to Research Areas

Research Area L
Some consistent counterexamples to natural conjectures about the structure of the class of infinite compact spaces have been constructed [1].

It was shown that every closed graph on a Polish space
either has a perfect clique or in a forcing extension of the set-theoretic universe, the weak Borel chromatic number of the graph is small [2]. This dichotomy fails for graphs of higher complexity.

Together with coauthors a cardinal invariant that allows a closer analysis of almost disjoint families on the natural numbers has been studied and models of set theory with different behaviours of this new cardinal invariant were constructed [3].

Together with a coauthor, methods from finite and countably infinite Ramsey theory have been used to obtain a dichotomy for the class of continuous n-colorings on Polish spaces, showing that a coloring is complicated in terms of its socalled homogeneity number if and only if it contains a copy of one of finitely many complicated colorings [4].

Geschke and a coauthor proved Ramsey theoretic results in the finite and countably infinite that assert the existence of large homogeneous subgraphs whose automorphisms lift to automorphisms of the colored graph [5], starting the field of symmetric Ramsey theory.

Selected PhD students

Stefanie Frick

Supervised Theses

  • Bachelor theses: 4, currently 1
  • Master theses: 3, currently 2
  • Diplom theses: 11, currently 5
  • PhD theses: 2, currently 1
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