Urs Schreiber
{{Short description|Theoretical physicist and mathemetician}}
Urs Schreiber (born 1974) is a mathematician specializing in the connection between mathematics and theoretical physics (especially string theory) and currently working as a researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi.{{cite web|url=https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/faculty-labs-and-projects/center-for-quantum-and-topological-systems.html|title=Center for Quantum and Topological Systems|access-date=2022-07-21}} He was previously a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Department for Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics.[http://www.math.cas.cz/annuaire/membres_perman.php?membre=perm Researchers], Czech Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-07-31.
Education
Schreiber obtained his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2005 with a thesis supervised by Robert Graham and titled From Loop Space Mechanics to Nonabelian Strings.[https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-13658/SchreiberDiss.pdf DuEPublico]
Work
Schreiber's research fields include the mathematical foundation of quantum field theory.
Schreiber is a co-creator of the nLab, a wiki for research mathematicians and physicists working in higher category theory.
Selected writings
- With Hisham Sati, [http://ncatlab.org/schreiber/show/Mathematical+Foundations+of+Quantum+Field+and+Perturbative+String+Theory Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field and Perturbative String Theory], Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 83 AMS (2011)
- Fiorenza, Domenico; Sati, Hisham; Schreiber, Urs (2023). The Character Map in Non-abelian Cohomology: Twisted, Differential, and Generalized. World Scientific Publishing. {{ISBN|978-981-127-669-9}}. doi:10.1142/13422.
- {{cite arXiv |last=Schreiber |first=Urs |eprint=1310.7930v1 |title = Differential cohomology in a cohesive ∞-topos|year=2013 |class=math-ph }}
Notes
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References
- [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/interview2.html Interview of John Baez and Urs Schreiber]
External links
- [http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber Home page] in nLab
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