Wadge Degrees and Projective Ordinals

Alexander S. Kechris is Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Carol Karp Prize of the Association for Symbolic Logic. He is also a member of the Scientific Research Board of the American Institute of Mathematics. Benedikt Lowe is Universitair Docent in Logic in the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and Professor of Mathematics at the Universitat Hamburg. He is the vice-president of the Deutsche Vereinigung fur Mathematische Logik und fur Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG) and a Managing Editor of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly. John R. Steel is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, he was a professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a recipient of the Carol Karp Prize of the Association for Symbolic Logic and of a Humboldt Prize. Steel is also a former Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Sloan Foundation.