SCOTT MUTCHNIK

National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

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

Research:

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

Properties of independence in NSOP_3 theories, submitted

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

Awards:

Sacks Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic, 2023

Awarded for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic

Teaching:

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