Justin Tatch Moore (born 1974) is a set theorist and logician. He is a full professor in mathematics at

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Career

Moore received his PhD in 2000 from the

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under the supervision of

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. He was an assistant professor in mathematics at

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. In the fall of 2007, he joined the faculty at

Research

His primary research area is

Ramsey theory Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of the mathematical field of combinatorics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in R ...

of infinite sets. He is known for solutions to the basis problem for uncountable linear orders and to the L space problem from general topology and for his work in determining the consequences of relating the continuum to certain values of th
aleph function
Moore, together with his PhD student Yash Lodha, produced the first torsion-free and finitely presented counterexample to the von Neumann-Day problem, originally described by mathematician

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in 1929. Lodha presented this solution at the London Mathematical Society's Geometric and Cohomological Group Theory symposium in August 2013.

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

Moore won the "Young Scholar's Competition" award in 2006, in Vienna, Austria. The Competition was a part of the "Horizons of Truth" celebrating the Gödel Centenary 2006. He was an invited speaker at the

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2010, Logic session, where he presented his solution to the problem of constructing an L-space. The L-space was constructed without assuming additional axioms and by combining Todorcevic's rho functions with number theory. Moore is an editor for the Archive of Mathematical Logic where he handles papers in set theory. He was one of the organizers of the fall 2012 Thematic Program in Forcing and its Applications (Forcing Axioms and their Applications) at the

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. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow (Inaugural Class of Fellows) of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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Sources

External links

Justin Tatch Moore Collected Works
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Justin T. 1974 births Living people Logicians Set theorists Cornell University faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society