Homepage of the Summer School in Szumin

In 1997 Adam Krawczyk suggested to organize a summer school devoted to some set theorethical, as well as topological topics. He offered housing in his cottage in Szumin (80 km to Warsaw) and moreover, convinced his friends to do the same. So, starting from that moment, a group of students of topology and set theory every year, until 2001, went to this place to learn a bit a mathematics from
  1. Tomek Bartoszynski (1997); the series of lectures on Cichon's diagram and constructions of small subsets of the real line, was based to large extent on his article Invariants of measure and category, to appear in the upcoming handbook of set theory (this article might be still avaliable on his webpage; this is true on 28th December 2001).
  2. Winfried Just (1998) lectured on elementary submodels; his talk was based on a part of his joint book with Martin Weese "Discovering Modern Set Theory". The final talk was about his recent interest - applications of mathematics to biology.
  3. Juris Steprans (1999) gave a series of lectures on applications of Sacks' forcing.
  4. Slawek Solecki (2000) gave a series of lectures on a sigma-compact relation on a given (hereditarily) indecomposable continuum (the relation of beloging to the same composant).
  5. In the year 2001 we had two main speakers
  6. In the year 2002 the school moved to Martiany (Mazury, Poland), to Henryk Kozlowski's house. The school was organized by Marcin Kysiak , and Krzysztof Wojciechowski. The first of them prepared a short summary of 2002 activities.

Szumin is a beatiful place, in the middle of forests, on the bank of the river Bug, one of the largest and wildest Polish rivers. The following series of picture, took by Eva Murtinova, gives an account of the facts:

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    Pictures from the Fifth Summer School of Set Theory and Topology in Szumin; 23 - 30.09.2001. (by Marcin Kysiak )

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    The school exists due to the kindness of our guests, who accepted invitations but also due to a help, annually given by the Head of the Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University. The school is a result of people collaboration; in the area of organization particulary active were: Piotrek Hoffman (1997), Marcin Kysiak , Adam Krawczyk, Witold Marciszewski, Henryk Michalewski, Krzysztof Wojciechowski.

    Contact with us via e-mail: henrykm@mimuw.edu.pl


    This page is hosted at Instytut Matematyki UW, Warsaw.