Itay Neeman (born 1972) is a set theorist working as a professor of mathematics at the

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. He has made major contributions to the theory of

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s, determinacy and forcing.

Early life and education

Neeman was born in 1972 in Safed,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. After studying mathematics at King's College London and the

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, he earned his

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at the

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, in 1996, under the supervision of John R. Steel.

Recognition

Neeman won a CAREER Award in 2001. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. In 2012, the

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named Neeman as one of their Simons Fellows, in the inaugural year of the Simons Fellows program. In 2019 he was awarded the

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, by the European Set Theory Society. The award cited three of his papers for their work on "iterating forcing using side conditions and the tree property" as having been the most significant contribution to set theory in the previous five years.

Selected publications

*.Reviews of ''The determinacy of long games'': Benedikt Löwe (2005), ; Jörg D. Brendle, ; Andrés Eduardo Caicedo (2006), ''Bull. Symbolic Logic'', *. One of the papers cited for Neeman's Hausdorff Medal. *. One of the papers cited for Neeman's Hausdorff Medal. *. One of the papers cited for Neeman's Hausdorff Medal.

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