Editing John C. Baez (section)

== Career ==
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baez |first=John |date=2016-03-15 |title=Interview with a Mathematical Physicist: John Baez Part 1 |url=https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematical-physicist-john-baez-part-1/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221050400/https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematical-physicist-john-baez-part-1/ |archive-date=2024-02-21 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Physics Forums Insights |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Neil |first=Kathryn M |date=2023-08-03 |title=Mathematician Aims to Keep It Simple |url=https://alum.mit.edu/slice/mathematician-aims-keep-it-simple |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007035950/https://alum.mit.edu/slice/mathematician-aims-keep-it-simple |archive-date=2024-10-07 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=alum.mit.edu |language=en}}</ref>

=== Research ===
His research includes work on [[spin foam]]s in [[loop quantum gravity]].<ref>Baez, John C. (1998), "Spin foam models", ''Class. & Quantum Gravity'' 15, 1827–1858</ref><ref>[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2004/eprints/to_gr-qc_alltime.shtml Top Cited Articles of All Time (2004 edition) in gr-qc]</ref> He also worked on applications of [[higher category theory|higher categories]] to physics,<ref>[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/diary/january_2010.html John Baez Diary – January 2010], 1 January 2010</ref><ref name="BL">John C. Baez and [[Aaron Lauda]], ''[[arxiv:0908.2469|A Prehistory of n-Categorical Physics]]'', Deep Beauty, 13–128, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, (2011).</ref> such as the [[cobordism hypothesis]]. He has also dedicated many efforts towards [[applied category theory]], including network theory<ref>[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/networks/ John Baez, Network theory.]</ref> and has published over 105 papers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Baez AMS {{!}} Department of Mathematics |url=https://mathdept.ucr.edu/john-baez-ams |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=mathdept.ucr.edu |language=en}}</ref>

=== Recognition ===
Baez won the 2013 [[Levi L. Conant Prize]] for his expository paper with John Huerta, "The algebra of grand unified theories".<ref name=conant/> He was named a Fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]], in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to higher category theory and mathematical physics, and for popularization of these subjects".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi|title=2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2021-11-05}}</ref>

=== Forums<!--'N-Category Café' and 'N-Café' redirect here--> ===
Baez is the author of ''This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics'',<ref>[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html This Week's Finds]</ref> 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 [[blog|weblog]].<ref>Lieven LeBruyn, [http://www.neverendingbooks.org/the-unbearable-lightness-of-math-blogging The unbearable lightness of math-blogging], August 23, 2007</ref> Baez creates blog posts about topics or questions he wants to understand more through his column publishings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Muehlhauser |first=Luke |date=2014-02-22 |title=John Baez on Research Tactics |url=https://intelligence.org/2014/02/21/john-baez-on-research-tactics/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Azimuth'' also covers other topics that include [[climate change mitigation|combating climate change]] and various other [[Environmental policy|environmental]] issues.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Azimuth Project|date=March 24, 2010 |url=https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/about/}}</ref>

He is also co-founder of the '''{{anchor|n-category café}}''n''-Category Café'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (or '''''n''-Café'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->), 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 [[nLab|''n''Lab]] wiki and ''n''Forum forum, which now run independently of ''n''-Café. It is hosted on [[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]]'s official website.