HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Mathematics

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: E. Safra

Course/Module Coordinator: Shimon Garti

Coordinator Email: shimon.garty@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: flexible, through mail

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Shimon Garty

Course/Module description:
We will discuss cardinal characteristics of the continuum, both classical and generalized.

Course/Module aims:
To be familiar with this branch of set theory, and to meet the main open problems in this area.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To read advanced material and to be able to attack open problems.

Attendance requirements(%):
none.

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal teaching.

Course/Module Content:
a. splitting and dominating.
b. generalized splitting and dominating.
c. pseudointersection and tower numbers.
d. Martin and Galvin num.
e. almost disjointness and independence.
f. ultrafilter number.
g. groupwise density.

Required Reading:
none.

Additional Reading Material:
The article of Andreas Blass in the Handbook of Set Theory, and a variety of papers in the subject.

Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 100 %

Additional information:
none.