Bob Coecke

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My PhD students are [Philip Atzemoglou], [Bill Edwards] and [Ben Jackson] who are working on categorical quantum axiomatics, [Ed Blakey] who is working on complexity of general physical computations, and [Jake Biamonte] who works on unconventional quantum computational models. In October 2008 also Andrei Akhvlediani, Raymond Lal and Aleks Kissinger will start a PhD under my supervision. I am also acting supervisor of [Penelope Economou], who works on dynamic epistemic logic, while her supervisor [Alexandru Baltag] is on sabatical leave.

I work with postdocs [Ross Duncan], [Simon Perdrix] and [Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh] here at Oxford, with [Dusko Pavlovic] who is currently a long-term visitor, and with colleagues [Samson Abramsky] and [Steve Clark]. We expect that next year [Eric Paquette] and [Jamie Vicary] will take up postdoc positions here at Oxford. [Rick Blute] and [Alex Wilce] will spend a sabatical in our group next year. Events:

• [Upcoming and past events I attend/organise]
• Check out the workshop series [Categories, Logic and the Foundations of Physics] which Andreas Doring and I organise. The next workshop in this series will be May 14. A workshop entitled [Quantum Physics and Logic] organised by Prakash Panangaden and myself is also forthcoming. In the past I organised a [Categorical Quantum Logic] workshop and a cluster of workshops named [Cats, Kets and Cloisters], attracting about 80 and 120 participants respectively.
• Work sessions

Papers & slides:

• Main topic: Quantum information flow, picture calculus for quantum mechanics, categorical quantum axiomatics-formalism-semantics
• Annex topic 1: Algebraic dynamic epistemic logic and applications in e-security
• Annex topic 2: Bayesian order and entropy on classical and quantum states and applications to information theory
• Past topics

Here's a [picture] of me at Ramifications of Category Theory, Firenze, November 2003, taken from Andrej Bauer's [photos of mathematicians]. Here is a slightly more recent 2006 [picture] of Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and myself, taken by Dusko Pavlovic during some roof-party in San Francisco. Can you guess where [this one] is taken? Here's [the good, the bad and the ugly] (Abramsky, Stubbe and Coecke, in some order) taken by Jurgen Koslowski.

Seminar series at Oxford University of interest to me other than [OASIS] are the [Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars], the [Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science Seminars] and the [QUOXIC] meetings on quantum computing and information. I received the 2004 Biennial Prize for Meritorious Research in the Field of Quantum Structures awarded by the [International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA)]. My previous affiliations are: the Free University of Brussels where I obtained my Doctorate in Theoretical Physics, Imperial College in London where I was a post-doc in the [Theoretical Physics Group], and the Mathematics and Statistics Department of McGill University in Montreal where I was a post-doc in the [Category Theory Group]. I was also formally affiliated to the [Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics] of Cambridge University, on a research grant of the European TMR network [Linear Logic in Computer Science].