Education
Todorčević earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Belgrade in 1979, and was a Miller Research Fellow in Berkeley from 1983 to 1985.
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Stevo Todorcevic
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Career
He holds a Canada Research Chair in mathematics at the University of Toronto, and a Directeur de Recherche position at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris. Introduced and investigated "walks on ordinals", proving that the addition of a Cohen real adds a Suslin tree and a negative partition relation
Introduced forcing with "side conditions" and used it to establish a lower bound for the large cardinal strength of proper forcing axiom (PFA)
Investigated the Tukey order
South-spaces and L-spaces.
Achievements
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He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and is the winner of the 2012 Communications Resource Management-Fields-PIMS prize in mathematical sciences, and of the 2013 Shoenfield prize. One of his Doctor of Philosophy students, Ilijas Farah won 1997 Sacks Prize for his Doctor of Philosophy, The Doctor of Philosophy was received on June, 1997, at the University of Toronto.
Membership
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
