Speaker: 

Sean Cox

Institution: 

Virginia Commonwealth University

Time: 

Monday, January 8, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

Shelah proved that a certain form of Strong Chang’s Conjecture is equivalent to the  statement ``Namba forcing is semiproper". I will present some related results about semiproperness of ``nonreasonable” posets (a notion introduced by Foreman-Magidor). This is joint work with Hiroshi Sakai.