The quest for understanding the quantum world remains one of the greatest challenges on the scientific agenda. Despite a century of involvement of the greatest minds there is still no consensus on what the quantum world is really about and how it relates to our everyday experiences. 

The Quantum Foundations Research Cluster at Wolfson tackles not only the big questions about the nature of the universe that have troubled scientists from Einstein to Stephen Hawking (Does God play dice?), but equally applies quantum theory to real-world technological advances, such as helping Google understand language. 

Our approach is unique for the range of perspectives we bring to this challenge, including philosophy, logic, computing, quantum phenomena and life, nanotechnology, and even areas of artificial intelligence. Several of these activities have received wide media coverage.

The Cluster unites members from the Computer Science, Materials, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics Departments of the University, making it an interdisciplinary activity unique in its kind.

While Wolfson College has a remarkably large number of Fellows and DPhil students active in the area, the activities of the cluster also attract many leading scientists from other colleges.

The activities of the cluster include bimonthly discussion meetings on
Wednesday evenings, to which everyone interested is welcome. Please email the quantum-announcements [at] cs [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (mailing list) to receive information on forthcoming activities.

Wolfson Academics

Samson Abramsky (Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing)
Andrew Briggs (Professor of Nanomaterials)
Harvey Brown (Professor of Philosophy of Physics)
Bob Coecke (Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures)
Daniel Isaacson (University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics)
Jonathan Pila (Reader in Mathematical Logic)
Vlatko Vedral (Professor of Quantum Information Theory)

Wolfson Research Fellows

Simon Benjamin (Dept. Materials)
Animesh Datta (Dept. Physics)
Andreas Doering (Dept. Computer Science)
Owen Maroney (Dept. Philosophy)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Dept. Computer Science)

Wolfson DPhil Students

Dimitri Kartsaklis (Dept. Computer Science)
Hugo Nava Kopp (Dept. Computer Science)
Shane Mansfield (Dept. Computer Science)
Daniel Marsden (Dept. Computer Science)
Yoshihiro Maruyama (Dept. Computer Science)
Karl Paulsson (Dept. Computer Science)
Rui Soares Barbosa (Dept. Computer Science)