Katriel Cohn-Gordon

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About Me

I'm a 21-year-old ex-student living in London. I used to study quantum information theory but now I work as a computer monkey for a hedge fund.

Education

I studied maths at Cambridge and then MFoCS at Oxford, as well as doing a smattering of software-y internships.

My Hobbies

Fencing 8/10

Fiddling with Python 6/10

Squash 1/10

Baking 5/10

More details in my CV

Undergraduate

I studied maths at Cambridge, focussing on pure maths and logic. My favourite course was probably Logic and Set Theory (by Imre Leader), for which I got about 76/80 marks. Overall, I received an upper second.

Graduate

From Cambridge I moved to MFoCS at Oxford, focussing on the new field of categorical quantum mechanics (CQM).

Dissertation

My masters' dissertation is entitled Commitment Algorithms. In it, I discuss the third equivalence in the CBH theorem in the language of CQM, and show that it is not a consequence of that formalism. To do so, I give a definition of commitment algorithms in a purely categorical sense, and show that although it cannot be fulfilled in the usual interpretation of quantum theory, it in fact can in one of the standard "toy" models.