Derek Levinson
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of North Texas
Email: derek dot levinson at unt dot edu
Office: GAB 469
I received my PhD from UCLA in 2023 under the supervision of Itay Neeman. I'm interested in set theory, especially descriptive inner model theory.
Teaching
Fall 2024:
Prior teaching at UCLA:
Spring 2024: Math 174E (Mathematical Finance)
Winter 2024: Math 170E (Introduction to Probability and Statistics)
Fall 2023: Math 170E (Introduction to Probability and Statistics)
Review Articles
Review of HOD as a Core Model, by John Steel and Hugh Woodin, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol 29 (2023), pp. 656 - 657.
Invited Conference Talks
Unreachability in the Second Projective-Like Hierarchy, Determinacy, Inner Models and Forcing Axioms, Erwin Schrodinger Institute, June 2024
Unreachability of Pointclasses in L(R), 2nd Irvine Conference on Inner Model Theory, University of California Irvine, July 2023
Unreachability of 𝛅21 , 5th Muenster Conference on Inner Model Theory, University of Muenster, June 2022
Seminar and Contributed Talks
Unreachability of 𝚪nm , BLAST, University of North Texas, April 2024, Slides
Unreachability of 𝚪nm , UCI Logic Seminar, University of California Irvine, November 2023
Unreachability of Pointclasses in L(R) , UCI Logic Seminar, University of California Irvine, January 2023
Unreachability of Pointclasses in L(R), Core Model Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2022, Talk 1 , Talk 2
Unreachability of Pointclasses in L(R) , UNT Logic Seminar, University of North Texas, October 2022, Slides
Mice and Scales, UCLA Logic Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, November 2021
About Me
I grew up in Washington, DC. I wanted to be a mathematician ever since my dad told me I wasn't going to make the NBA. When not doing math or watching basketball, I enjoy reading, running, and tennis.