April 2016

# Barnabas Farkas: Towers in filters and related problems

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 17:15

Room: D1-215

Speaker:
Barnabas Farkas

Title: Towers in filters and related problems

Abstract. I am going to present a survey on my recently finished joint work with J. Brendle and J. Verner. In this paper we investigated which filters can contain towers, that is, a $$\subseteq^*$$-decreasing sequence in the filter without any pseudointersection (in $$[\omega]^\omega$$). I will present Borel examples which contain no towers in $$\mathrm{ZFC}$$, and also examples for which it is independent of $$\mathrm{ZFC}$$. I will prove that consistently every tower generates a non-meager filter, in particular (consistently) Borel filters cannot contain towers. And finally, I will present the "map'' of logical implications and non-implications between (a) the existence of a tower in a filter $$\mathcal{F}$$, (b) inequalities between cardinal invariants of $$\mathcal{F}$$, and (c) the existence of a peculiar object, an $$\mathcal{F}$$-Luzin set of size $$\geq\omega_2$$.

# Magdalena Nowak: Counterexamples for IFS-attractors

Monday, April 25, 2016 17:15

Room: 604 IM

Speaker:
Magdalena Nowak

Title: Counterexamples for IFS-attractors

Abstract. I deal with the part of Fractal Theory related to finite families of (weak) contractions, called iterated function systems (IFS). An attractor is a compact set which remains invariant for such a family. Thus, I consider spaces homeomorphic to attractors of either IFS or weak IFS, as well, which I will refer to as Banach and topological fractals, respectively. I present a collection of counterexamples in order to show that all the presented definitions are essential, though they are not equivalent in general.