aboutlogic #12 | Urs Schreiber – Quantum (Physics, Computing), Topos & Homotopy Theory
5/20/20261 hr
Quantum (Physics, Computing), Topos & Homotopy Theory
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00:01:19 Introduction to Quantum Research and Technologies 00:04:34 Understanding Fermions, Bosons, and Anyons 00:10:16 The Role of Anyons in Quantum Computing 00:13:29 Understanding Topos Theory and Its Relevance 00:17:02 Mathematical Foundations: Differential Geometry and Topos Theory 00:20:55 The Intersection of Physics, Mathematics and Logic 00:32:31 Historical Context of Mathematics and Physics 00:37:26 Category Theory and It...
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First 90 secondsTorsten· Host0:00
What drives you? I mean Well, what drives me is I always wanted to understand how, how the world actually works, what's, what's actually going on here.
Urs Schreiber· Guest0:07
So the research I've been doing has been kind of very much in what's called fundamental physics, trying to understand kind of basic building blocks of reality, right? That's, that's what string theory is about. The last, uh, couple of years, uh, what I've been doing is this amazing interest currently in, um, what's called quantum technologies and, uh, in particular what's called q- topological quantum technologies. And turns out even though everybody's talking about this in the field as if everything is already clear-cut and it's just a matter of, of going to the lab and, uh, engineering it, turns out there's actually lots of theoretical open problems, uh, in this field that haven't really been addressed.
Torsten· Host0:40
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody. Uh, this is the latest, uh, About Logic podcast, and we are very happy to have Urs Schreiber here. So Urs is, um, working, uh, as a senior scientist for the University of New York in Abu Dhabi, and he is very well known for very high level quantum stuff, if I may su- summarize this, uh, uh, like this. So yeah, maybe Urs, can we start, maybe can you give a better description of, of what you are doing?
Urs Schreiber· Guest1:17
[laughs] Right. Right. Uh, thanks first of all for having me. That's a great honor. Uh, it's great to, uh, see you do this, uh, kind of podcast. So, so what I'm doing research-wise,