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Barry Cooper photo Prof.  S  BARRY COOPER

School of Mathematics
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Research
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Phone: 0113 343 5165 - FAX: 0113 343 5090
Email: Mail me image s.b.cooper @ leeds.ac.uk
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Contents | Research | Logic | Computability | Seminars | PhD students | Conferences | Personal | Teaching | Leeds
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button RESEARCH INTERESTS : Mathematical logic (see Mathematical Logic Around the World); space COMPUTABILITY THEORY and applications to science and the humanities - see papers Incomputability in Nature, Clockwork or Turing U/universe, Computability and emergence, or Definability as hypercomputational effect (pdf files); complexity theory; combinatorics and graph theory.
A short computability in context reading list.
See the February 2005 University of Leeds Reporter for a more journalistic slant on incomputability.

button Recent PREPRINTS, PAPERS AND TALKS etc. See also books:
Computability Theory book
- Latest Errata list -
Computability in Context Computability and Models book lncs TAMC 2007 Proceedings NCP LC06
TAMC 2006 Proceedings CiE 2005 Proceedings Computability, Enumerability, 
Unsolvability book Sets and Proofs Models and Computability
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button Current and recent research students:
thumbnail Phil Ellison - arrived from Cambridge Sept. 2007 Kyung Il Lee - arrived in Leeds from Western Illinois University in September, 2006. Married April 2007. My students at CiE07. March 2008 - Hyun Jin has a baby! - Chae-Un
Liliana Badillo - Arrived in Leeds from sunny Mexico in October 2009, read Los Detectives Salvajes - had art classes at Frida Kahlo's house (spot logician Jan van Heijenoort) thumbnail Stijn Vermeeren - arriving from Aarschot, Belgium, via Part 3 at Cambridge, Oct. 2009 - represented Belgium in Int. Mathematical Olympiad!
thumbnail Benedict Durrant - 'arrived' from sunny Leeds, October 2010 ... thumbnail Andrew E M Lewis - at a conference in Kazan, July, 2004. At Badaling, China, 2006. Royal Society advanced fellow in Leeds from Oct. 2007
thumbnail Charles Harris - we seek him here, we seek him there ... but caught (with Andrea Sorbi) by Bahareh at CiE 2006. Another at CiE06. Back in Leeds as an EPSRC Fellow from Oct. 2008 thumbnail Mariya Soskova - speaking. On steam bus in Whitby Feb, 2006. At Great Wall, and Forbidden City. Bletchley Park, 2006. CiE06. Singapore. CiE07. Olympos 2007. Sofia 2008. Dr M. I. Soskova
thumbnail Anthony Morphett from Melbourne. George and Elaine's housewarming, June 2006 - and Great Wall, Simatai, 2006. Colossus rebuild, Bletchley. CiE06 RatPack - now lecturing back in Australia thumbnail George Barmpalias - on holiday in Greece - and back in the Leeds winter, working with Andy Lewis. Our favourite photo of George and Elaine. In New Zealand Oct. 2007-08 ... now in Amsterdam
bahareh Bahareh Afshari - at home in Tehran, with some light reading. Mashhad, New Year 2005-06. A wild winters day, Whitby beach. Concentrating, IPM, Tehran, 2006. Now in Edinburgh thumbnail Matthew B Giorgi - back in the UK (but sadly not Leeds) from two years in Siena

button Current and recent courses:
MATH0111/ 0131: Elementary Differential Calculus
Available class handouts
MATH3163/ 5164: Computability and Unsolvability
Available class handouts (for 2011-12)
MATH3102: Mathematical Logic 2
Available class handouts (for 2010-11)
MATH3032: Graph Theory
Available class handouts (for 2009-10)
MATH2040: Mathematical Logic 1
Available class handouts (for 2005-06)
MATH2210: Intro. to Discrete Mathematics
Available class handouts (for 2004-05)

button Some biographical notes - and some recent conference photographs.

button Some seminars of interest: Leeds Logic Seminar , the Computability Theory Seminar and the SIGLaC - Special Interest Group in Logic and Computation - seminars

button Opportunities for postgraduate research in logic at Leeds - and a brief genealogy

button Information on the association Computability In Europe - and its first seven conferences CiE 2005, CiE 2006, CiE 2007, CiE 2008, CiE 2009, CiE 2010, CiE 2011 and CiE 2012
CiE 2005 small poster CiE 2006 small poster CiE 2007 small poster CiE 2008 small poster
CiE 2009 small poster CiE 2010 small poster CiE 2011 small poster CiE 2012 small poster

Many thanks to everyone who visited my sponsor page for the 2010 London Marathon - we raised over 1,690 pounds for Age Concern, a great result.

button The old Logic Colloquium '97 webpage (also large photo of the participants)

button The Recursive Function Theory Newsletter

button (for internal use) Research funding information

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