Seminar 24th January 2014 10 a.m. B53 Room 4025A&B
A lucrative liaison between physics and linguistics
Prof Bob Coecke
University of Oxford
- Web page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Coecke
- Categories
- Computer Science, Quantum Computation, Scientific Computing
- Submitter
- Elena Vataga
Professor Bob Coecke Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures
The speaker is Regius Professor in Computer Science Candidate
Bob Coecke is a theoretical physicist, professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford University and a pioneer of categorical quantum mechanics. Coecke obtained his Doctorate in Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1996[1] and performed postdoctorate work in the Theoretical Physics Group of Imperial College, London and in the Category Theory Group of the Mathematics and Statistics Department at McGill University in Montreal, and was formally affiliated with the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics of Cambridge University.[2] He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, where he became Lecturer in Quantum Computer Science in 2007, and jointly with Samson Abramsky leads the Quantum Group. In 2009, he worked as visiting scientist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[2] In July 2011, he was nominated professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford Uni versity, with retroactive effect as of October 2010. He is Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford since 2007