Baez was a
post-doctoral researcher at
Yale University. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at
UC Riverside. From 2010 to 2012, he was a visiting professor at the
Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and continued working there in the summers until at least 2016.
Research His research includes work on
spin foams in
loop quantum gravity. He also worked on applications of
higher categories to physics, such as the
cobordism hypothesis. He has also dedicated many efforts towards
applied category theory, including network theory and has published over 105 papers.
Recognition Baez won the 2013
Levi L. Conant Prize for his expository paper with John Huerta, "The algebra of grand unified theories".
Forums Baez is the author of ''This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
, an irregular column on the internet featuring mathematical exposition and criticism. He started This Week's Finds
in 1993 for the Usenet community, and it now has a following in its new form, the blog Azimuth
. This Week's Finds
anticipated the concept of a personal weblog. Baez creates blog posts about topics or questions he wants to understand more through his column publishings. Azimuth'' also covers other topics that include
combating climate change and various other
environmental issues. He is also co-founder of the '''
n-Category Café
(or n-Café'
), a group blog concerning higher category theory and its applications, as well as its philosophical repercussions. The founders of the blog are Baez, David Corfield and Urs Schreiber, and the list of blog authors has extended since. The n
-Café community is associated with the n
Lab wiki and n
Forum forum, which now run independently of n''-Café. It is hosted on
The University of Texas at Austin's official website. == Family ==