Office: A15-306
Email: wwoodin@g.harvard.edu
Research Field: Set Theory
Webpage: https://www.math.harvard.edu/people/woodin-hugh/
Biography
William Hugh Woodin is an American mathematician at Harvard University specializing in set theory. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. A type of large cardinals, the Woodin cardinals, bears his name. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 under Robert M. Solovay. His dissertation title was Discontinuous Homomorphisms of C(Ω) and Set Theory. He served as chair of the Berkeley mathematics department for the 2002–2003 academic year. Woodin is a managing editor of the Journal of Mathematical Logic. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
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