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'''Urs Schreiber''' (born 1974) is a mathematician specializing in the connection between mathematics and theoretical physics (especially [[Physics:String theory|string theory]]) and currently working as a researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/faculty-labs-and-projects/center-for-quantum-and-topological-systems.html|title=Center for Quantum and Topological Systems|access-date=2022-07-21}}</ref> He was previously a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Department for Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics.<ref>[http://www.math.cas.cz/annuaire/membres_perman.php?membre=perm Researchers], Czech Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-07-31.</ref>
==Education==
Schreiber obtained his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2005 with a thesis supervised by [[Biography:Robert Graham (physicist)|Robert Graham]] and titled ''From Loop Space Mechanics to Nonabelian Strings''.<ref>[https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-13658/SchreiberDiss.pdf DuEPublico]</ref>

==Work==
Schreiber's research fields include the mathematical foundation of quantum field theory.

Schreiber is a co-creator of the [[NLab|''n''Lab]], a [[Wiki|wiki]] for research mathematicians and physicists working in [[Higher category theory|higher category theory]].

== Selected writings ==
*With Hisham Sati, ''[http://ncatlab.org/schreiber/show/Mathematical+Foundations+of+Quantum+Field+and+Perturbative+String+Theory Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field and Perturbative String Theory]'', Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 83 AMS (2011)
*{{cite arXiv |last=Schreiber |first=Urs |eprint=1310.7930v1 |title = Differential cohomology in a cohesive ∞-topos|year=2013 |class=math-ph }}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
*[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/interview2.html Interview of John Baez and Urs Schreiber]

== External links ==
*[http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber Home page] in ''n''Lab


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