QMAC

I cofounded and codirected the Centre for Quantum Mathematics and Computation (QMAC) at the University of Oxford. The Centre was supported by EPSRC grant EP/K015478.

The QMAC Centre integrated expertise in the Oxford Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science departments to tackle the fundamental problem of understanding the mathematical and computational nature of quantum phenomena. Through a distributed research agenda, the Centre worked on developing a new geometrical language unifying diagrammatic methods in algebraic topology and quantum representation theory with graphical techniques from quantum computation, computational linguistics, and software and hardware design. This research effort was organized into four cross-disciplinary strands (the language of geometry and the geometry of language, the computational structure of quantum spacetime, higher structures for computational systems, and applications in geometric computation), and the research projects of the Centre addressed such fundamental problems as the flow of information in quantum protocols, the design of natural language processing platforms, the automated analysis of large unstructured data sets, and the classification of quantum field theories.

More information about the Centre and its faculty can be found at the QMAC website.