• Education :
– 2020 - present PhD student in Mathematics at University of Hamburg
– 2017-2019 Masters in Mathematics from Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI)
– 2014-2017 Bachelors in Mathematics from St. Xavier’s college Kolkata (affiliated to the University of
Calcutta)
• Dissertations :
– Master’s dissertation (CMI) : Forcing and measurable subsets of R
– Bachelor’s dissertation (St. Xavier’s College) : Study of the Banach-Tarski Paradox
• Papers submitted :
– Borel Chromatic numbers of locally countable Fσ graphs and forcing with super perfect trees (Joint work
with Michel Gaspar).
• Papers in Preparation :
– Regularity properties for forcing notions not living on the reals (Joint work with Lucas Wansner and
Benedikt L¨owe)
– Regularities in the Matet and Willow models
• Employment History :
– Teaching Experience :
∗ ¨Ubungsgruppenleiter of the course Mathematik f¨ur Informatiker 2 (in German), Sommersemester 2023.
∗ ¨Ubungsgruppenleiter of the course Mathematik f¨ur Informatiker 1 (in German), Wintersemester 2022-
23.
• Talks delivered :
– 2023
∗ 26. May 2023 STiHAC (Title: More on Willow tree and Matet Forcing)
– 2022
∗ 29. August 2022 European Set Theory Conference (Title : Silver measurability and more in the
Laver model)
∗ 18. February 2022 STiHAC (Title: E0 vs Laver, Miller and Sacks)
∗ 15. January 2022 21st CLC Annual meet (Title: Silver measurability and more in the Laver model)
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– 2021
∗ 17. November 2021 STiHAC (Title: Laver forcing does not add Silver reals, Part 2: the iteration
case)
∗ 3. November 2021 STiHAC (Title: Laver forcing does not add Silver reals, Part 1: the one-step
case)
∗ 17. June 2021 STiHAC (Title: Laver vs Silver)
∗ 11. February 2021 STiHAC (Title: Regularity properties in iterations of length ℵ1)
– 2019
∗ About the Veblen hierarchy (together with Lorenz Leutgeb and Tijs Gersen) at the Hilbert-Bernays
summerschool on Logic and Computation, 2019
∗ On the Solovay’s Model (2nd thesis talk delivered at CMI)
– 2018 Explaining the independence of CH from ZFC (1st thesis talk delivered at CMI)
– 2017 Non-Lebesgue measurable sets and the Banach-Tarski Paradox (Thesis talk at St. Xavier’s College
Kolkata)
– 2016
∗ On subgroups of R at Analytica (the annual seminar organised at the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata)
∗ On homomorphisms and continuity at Analytica (the annual seminar organised at the St. Xavier’s
College, Kolkata)
• Scholarships :
– 1. Oct 2020 - 30. September 2022 Promotionsstipendium an der Universit¨at Hamburg gem¨aß HmbNFG
– 2017-2019 CMI student scholarship (ended with the end of Masters)
– 2017
∗ The IMSC (Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Integrated PhD scholarship of the Department of
Atomic Energy, Government of India (declined to join CMI)
∗ The IISC (Indian Institute of Sciences) Integrated PhD scholarship of the Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India (declined to join CMI)
– 2014-2019 DST-INSPIRE scholarship of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
(terminated to receive the CMI student scholarship)
– 2014-2017 Fee-waiver from St. Xavier’s College due to excellent academic performance despite financial
hardships (ended with the end of Bachelors)

• Awards and Honours :
– 2017 Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya Memorial Gold Medal for securing the best grades in the B.Sc. Mathematics
programme of St. Xavier’s College
– 2016
∗ Award for the best talk delivered at Analytica (the annual mathematics seminar of St. Xavier’s College)
2016
∗ Award for securing the best grades in the 2nd year of the B.Sc. mathematics programme of St. Xavier’s
college, Kolkata
∗ Ram ghosh award for consistently excellent performance in Mathematics B.Sc. course upto 2nd year
– 2015 Award for securing the best grades in 1st year of B.Sc. Mathematics
– 2014 Honoured by the Municipal corporation of Chandernagore for being one of the best 10 academic
performers of the city in the State Higher Secondary exams

Raiean Banerjee

Raiean Banerjee