SCOTT MUTCHNIK

National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago

Cofund MathInGreaterParis Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu -- Paris Rive Gauche

Research interests: Model theory, including classification theory, neo- and geometric stability theory, and applications

Research:

An NSOP_1 theory without the existence axiom, preprint

Simple homogeneous structures and indiscernible sequence invariants (with J. Baldwin and J. Freitag), preprint

On the properties SOP_{2^{n+1}+1}, submitted

Properties of independence in NSOP_3 theories, recommended for acceptance pending revision, Model Theory

Generic expansions and the group configuration theorem, submitted

Conant-independence and generalized free amalgamation, accepted, J. Math. Logic 

On NSOP_2 theories, recommended for acceptance pending revision, J. Eur. Math. Soc.

Education:

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 2023

Advisor: Thomas Scanlon

B.A.S., Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford University, 2019

Awards:

Sacks Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic, 2023

Awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic

Teaching:

Guest Lecturer, UIC

Math 507 (Graduate Model Theory)

Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

Math 32 (Precalculus)

Math 53W (Multivariable Calculus)

Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics)

Full CV 

Contact:

Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

University of Illinois Chicago

851 S Morgan Street

Chicago, IL 60607

mutchnik@uic.edu

Office: SEO 716