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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. He was previously a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Department for Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics.

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.

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, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field and Perturbative String Theory, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 83 AMS (2011)
• Schreiber, Urs (2013). "Differential cohomology in a cohesive ∞-topos". arXiv:1310.7930v1 .

Notes

1. "Center for Quantum and Topological Systems". Retrieved 2022-07-21.
2. Researchers, Czech Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-07-31.
3. DuEPublico

References

• Interview of John Baez and Urs Schreiber

External links

• Home page in nLab

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