John C. Baez
John Carlos Baez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index.
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Baez in August 2009 | |
| Born | John Carlos Baez June 12, 1961 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Princeton University (AB) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Spouse | Lisa Raphals |
| Awards | Levi L. Conant Prize (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, mathematical physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Riverside |
| Thesis | Conformally Invariant Quantum Fields (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Irving Segal |
| Doctoral students | Alissa Crans |
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