John C. Baez
John Carlos Baez ( born June 12, 1961 in San Francisco) is an American mathematical physicist and professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Life
Baez graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor 's degree in mathematics in 1982 and 1986 in Irving Segal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD ( Conformally invariant quantum fields ). As a post - graduate student he was at Yale University, and since 1989 he teaches at the University of California at Riverside in the Faculty of Mathematics.
John Baez, among other works in the field of loop quantum gravity (spin foam, spin networks ) and category theory in general and the application of algebraic structures in physics.
John Baez is known primarily for its presence on the Internet, in particular by his appearing at irregular intervals since 1993 column This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics, in which he writes about a variety of topics in physics and mathematics, and which he in several Usenet newsgroups and on his website published. He is also one of the founders of the group blogs n- Theory - Café on higher category theory.
In 2010 he decided troubled by global changes such as climate change, become more turn to applications and is also at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. He started on the topic of global climate change, the scientific discussion forum Azimuth Project.
For 2013, the John Huerta ( his PhD ) of the Levi L. Conant Prize was - and awarded.
Joan Baez is his cousin and her father, the physicist Albert Baez (1912-2007), his uncle. John Baez is married to Lisa Raphals, a professor of Chinese literature and science at UC Riverside.
Writings
- Editor with J. Peter May Towards Higher Category Theories, Springer Verlag 2010
- As editor Knots and Quantum Gravity, Oxford University Press 1994
- Published by Javier P. Muniain Gauge fields, knots and gravity, World Scientific 1994
- With Irving Segal, Zhou Introduction to Algebraic Zhengfang and Constructive Quantum Field Theory, Princeton University Press 1992
- With John Huerta The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories, Bulletin AMS, Volume 47, 2010, pp. 483-552, Arxiv ( they received the Levi L. Conant price)
- With Aaron Lauda The prehistory of n- categorical physics, in Deep beauty, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Arxiv
- The Octonions, Bulletin AMS, Volume 39, 2002, pp. 145-205, Arxiv
- With James Dolan From finite sets to Feynman diagrams, in Björn Engquist, Wilfried Schmid (Editor ) Mathematics Unlimited, Springer Verlag, 2001, pp. 29-50, Arxiv
- With James Dolan Categorification, in Ezra Getzler, Mikhail Kapranov (Eds. ) Higher Category Theory, Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 230, 1998, American Mathematical Society, pp. 1-36, Arxiv
- An Introduction to Spin Foam Models of Quantum Gravity and BF Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 543, 2000, pp. 25-94, Arxiv
- Spin Foam Models, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 15, 1998, pp. 1827-1858, Arxiv
- Spin Network States in Gauge Theory, Advances in Mathematics, Volume 117, 1996, pp. 253-272, Arxiv