Theodore A. Slaman
Theodore Allen Slaman (born April 17, 1954 ) is an American mathematical logician.
Slaman initially studied physics at Pennsylvania State University , but then switched to mathematical logic and received his doctorate in 1981 from Harvard University with Gerald E. Sacks (Aspects of E-recursion theory). He was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1983 to 1996 and then became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2005 he was chairman of the mathematics faculty there.
Slaman deals with recursion theory . With W. Hugh Woodin he formulated a conjecture about the partial order of the Turing degrees (namely that there are no non-trivial automorphisms).
He received the President Young Investigator Award and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto (Degree Structures). In 2001 he was a Gödel Lecturer (Recursion Theory).
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| SURNAME | Slaman, Theodore A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slaman, Theodore Allen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematical logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1954 |