Urs Schreiber
Urs Schreiber is a mathematician specializing in the connection between mathematics and theoretical physics 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, , Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 83 AMS
- Fiorenza, Domenico; Sati, Hisham; Schreiber, Urs. The Character Map in Non-abelian Cohomology: Twisted, Differential, and Generalized. World Scientific Publishing.. doi:10.1142/13422.