Urs Schreiber (born 1974) is a mathematician specializing in the connection between

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and

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(especially

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) and currently working as a researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was previously a researcher at the

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, Institute of Mathematics, Department for Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics.

Education

Schreiber obtained his doctorate from the

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in 2005 with a thesis supervised by Robert Graham and titled ''From Loop Space Mechanics to Nonabelian Strings''.DuEPublico
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Work

Schreiber's research fields include the mathematical foundation of quantum field theory. Schreiber is a co-creator of the ''n''Lab, a

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for research mathematicians and physicists working in

higher category theory In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a ''higher order'', which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit morphism, arrows in order to be able to explicitly study the structure behind those equalities. H ...

Selected writings

*With Hisham Sati,
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. . doi:10.1142/13422. *

Notes

References

Interview of John Baez and Urs Schreiber

External links

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