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Details for Dr Oliver Gray
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| Name | Dr Oliver Gray | ||
| Job title | Heilbronn Research Fellow |
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| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maowg/ | ||
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| Out-of-hours contact details | home07502 301911 | ||
| Qualifications | MMath(Warw), PhD | ||
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| Keywords | conformal field theory geometry algebra quantum algorithms |
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| Areas of expertise | My research interests are primarily in conformal field theory, which combines algebra, geometry and theoretical physics to attempt to describe such diverse fields as string theory, critical phenomena in 2 dimensional statistical mechanics and topological quantum computing, as well as giving surprising new mathematical results. In my doctoral thesis I proved the existence of a larger class of conformal field theories than were previously thought to exist, and I am currently trying to recast this and other physics results in the abstract language of category theory. Since moving to Bristol I have also become interested in quantum algorithms. |
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