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In this issue we celebrate the appearance of the proceedings of the first SPM Workshop, announce several mathematical breakthroughs, have two extended contributions by Babinkostova, and a new open problem by Kalenda. Contents: Editor's…

Contents: 1. Editor's note 2. Research announcements 2.1. Pseudocompact group topologies with no infinite compact subsets 2.2. Selective coideals on (FIN[1]k) 2.3. Entire functions mapping uncountable dense sets of reals onto each other…

This is the ninth issue of this bulletin. CONTENTS: Proceedings of SPM Workshop; A brief remark on van der Waerden spaces; Complete ccc Boolean algebras, the order sequential topology, and a problem of von Neumann; Cardinal invariants p, t…

Contents: 1. Editor's note; 2. gamma-sets from a weak hypothesis; 3. Research announcements; 3.1. Ultrafilters with property (s); 3.2. On a converse to Banach's Fixed Point Theorem; 3.3. Analytic groups and pushing small sets apart 3.4.…

CONTENTS: A surprising covering of the real line Unions of chains in dyadic compact spaces and topological groups On the Pytkeev property in spaces of continuous functions Selection principles related to alpha_i-properties On the Kocinac…

Contents: 1. Combinatorial and model-theoretical principles related to regularity of ultrafilters and compactness of topological spaces, I; 2. Frechet-Urysohn fans in free topological groups; 3. Packing index of subsets in Polish groups; 4.…

Contents of the issue: Selection Principles and special sets of reals: Open problems Winning the pressing down game but not Banach Mazur Ramsey classes of topological and metric spaces More on partitioning triples of countable ordinals…

CONTENTS: Lecce Workshop presentations available online; Borel cardinalities below c_0; Hereditarily non-topologizable groups; A hodgepodge of sets of reals; Random gaps; Covering a bounded set of functions by an increasing chain of…

This issue contains announcements of articles on: The Pytkeev property; Partial order embeddings; Resolvability; Singular density; P(w)/fin and the Calkin algebra; Everywhere meagre and everywhere null sets; almost disjoint families;…

This is the first issue of a semi-formal bulletin dealing with Selection Principles in Mathematics (SPM) -- this field deals with all sorts of studies of diagonalization arguments, especially in topology (covering properties, sequences of…

CONTENTS: New reals: Can live with them, can live without them; Uniform almost everywhere domination; Heredity of tau-pseudocompactness; Understanding preservation theorems: omega^omega-bounding; Classification problems in continuum theory;…

In addition to 29 announcements in related areas, this issue contains several contributions to "core" SPM: Measurable cardinals and the cardinality of Lindelof spaces; Topological games and covering dimension; Menger's and Hurewicz's…

1. A Wikipedia entry on topological games 2. On a fragment of the universal Baire property for sigma^1_2 sets 3. The coarse classification of homogeneous ultra-metric spaces 4. Ramsey-like embeddings 5. Proper and piecewise proper families…

Contents: 2. Invited contribution: Ultrafilters and small sets 3. Research announcements 3.1. Inverse Systems and I-Favorable Spaces 3.2. Combinatorial and hybrid principles for sigma-directed families of countable sets modulo finite 3.3. A…

Contents: 1. Editor's note; 2. Personal impressions from the SPM07 meeting; 3. Research announcements; 3.1. Coloring ordinals by reals; 3.2. Long Borel Hierarchies; 3.3. Rothberger's property in finite powers; 3.4. Special subsets of the…

CONTENTS OF THE ISSUE: Hurewicz-like tests for Borel subsets of the plane; Ordered Spaces, Metric Preimages, and Function Algebras; On the independence of a generalized statement of Egoroff's theorem from ZFC, after T. Weiss; Forty…

This issue contains, in addition to the usual contents, a special festive announcement: A book. This book by Banakh and Zdomsky seems to be the first in a planned series by these authors. We believe that the book will become a cornerstone…

CONTENTS: On Selective screenability and examples of R. Pol. Workshops and conferences: The Oxford Conference on Topology and Computer Science in Honour of Peter Collins and Mike Reed; Boise Extravaganza In Set Theory (BEST2006). Research…

In this workshop, we discuss several algorithms for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). The unifying theme is that MPECs are optimization problems whose feasible set contains a lower-level equilibrium system, often…

In this issue we announce a fascinating series of works on the comparison of various types of convergence of sequences of functions. Some of these properties are provably related to some of the properties which were introduced in the…