Theodore Slaman

Theodore Slaman Allan ( born April 17, 1954) is an American mathematical logician.

Slaman studied physics at Pennsylvania State University, but then switched to mathematical logic and doctorate in 1981 from Harvard University with Gerald E. Sacks ( Aspects of E -recursion theory ). He was from 1983 to 1996 professor at the University of Chicago and then became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was there in 2005 chairman of the mathematics faculty.

Slaman deals with recursion. With W. Hugh Woodin, he formulated a conjecture about the partial order of the Turing degrees (namely it at this no non-trivial automorphisms are ).

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 Godel Lecturer ( Recursion Theory).