John C. Baez

This article is about the American mathematical physicist. For the video-game programmer and creator of the video game "Alien Hominid", see The Behemoth.

John C. Baez
Baez in August 2009
Born
John Carlos Baez

(1961-06-12) June 12, 1961 (age 63)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
EducationPrinceton University (AB)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
SpouseLisa Raphals
AwardsLevi L. Conant Prize (2013)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, mathematical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Riverside
ThesisConformally Invariant Quantum Fields (1986)
Doctoral advisorIrving Segal
Doctoral studentsAlissa Crans

John Carlos Baez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/;[2] born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR)[3] 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.

  1. ^ "2013 Conant Prize" (PDF), Notices of the AMS, 60 (4): 484–485, April 2013
  2. ^ "John Baez Part 1"
  3. ^ UC Riverside, Department of Mathematics