Faculty Profile for Dr. William Nelson Boney

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Dr. William Nelson Boney
Associate Professor — Mathematics
ELTB B211
phone: (512) 245-5254
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Boney, W. N., & VanDieren, M. (n.d.). Limit models in strictly stable Abstract Elementary Classes. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 70(4), 438–453. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/malq.202200075
  • Boney, W. N., Dimopoulos, S., Gitman, V., & Magidor, M. (2023). Model-Theoretic Characterizations of Large Cardinals Revisited. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 377, 6827–6862.
  • Boney, W. N. (n.d.). Cofinality quantifiers in Abstract Elementary Classes and beyond. Journal of Symbolic Logic. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2023.34
  • Boney, W. N., Csima, B., Day, N., & Harrison-Trainor, M. (2023). Which classes of structures are both pseudo-elementary and definable by an infinitary sentence? Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 29(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/bsl.2023.1
  • Boney, W. N., & Souldatos, I. (2022). A Lower Bound for the Hanf Number for Joint Embedding. Fundamenta Mathematica, 258, 115–135. https://doi.org/10.4064/fm612-12-2021

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Department of Mathematics Research Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Department of Mathematics Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Department of Mathematics Research Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2022
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Department of Mathematics Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics. December 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor (shared), Texas State Alumni Associate. August 2020

Selected Grants

  • Boney, William Nelson. CAREER: Compactness in Incompact Worlds, National Science Foundation, Federal, $503145. (Submitted: July 2023, Funded: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2029). Grant.
  • Boney, William Nelson. AMS Epsilon Fund Grants for Young Scholars Programs (2023), American Mathematical Society, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $2500. (Funded: March 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Boney, William Nelson. AMS Epsilon Fund Grants for Young Scholars Programs (2022), American Mathematical Society, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $5000. (Submitted: December 3, 2022, Funded: June 2023 - July 2023). Grant.
  • Boney, William Nelson. AMS Epsilon Fund Grants for Young Scholars Programs (2021), American Mathematical Society, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $5000. (Submitted: October 15, 2021, Funded: May 2022 - July 2022). Grant.
  • Boney, William Nelson. LEAPS-MPS: Fragments of Compactness, National Science Foundation, Federal, $170366. (Funded: September 15, 2021 - September 14, 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
2025 Mathematical Congress of the Americas Travel Grants Selection Committee (2025)
September 2024-Present
Member
AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grants for PUI Faculty Committee
February 2024-Present
Chair
Committee on Committees
2023-Present
Co-Chair
Assistant Director for Research Projects, Texas Mathworks
September 2020-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Bolet´ın de Matem´aticas, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Journal of Mathematical Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Mathematical Logic Quarterly, MathReviews
2014-Present