Bob Coecke
Chief Scientist at Quantinuum, ex Oxford Professor, author of Picturing Quantum Processes & Quantum in Pictures. Also, composer/musician at Black Tish, inventor of Quantum Guitar, playing duets with orchestral organ.
- Next week I'll be giving a talk and a quantum guitar concert at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, near Berlin, for their Year of Quantum celebrations. Maybe CU there, in person, or on Zoom. www.einsteinforum.de/tagung/von-u...
- We have a new paper on the arXiv that provides a widely applicable graphical language for photonically interlocking modular components for various kinds of quantum hardware. arxiv.org/abs/2601.08389
- Our first ZX-calculus paper was written in 2007 in the Alborz mountains in Iran. Let's hope that the Iranian people can get what "they" want. (RIP Hassan) www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.c...
- Proud to be included in the top 10 most watched science talks of 2025 at The Royal Institution, at nr 5. www.rigb.org/explore-scie... @perimeterinstitute.ca @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @fqxi.org
- Free concert this Wednesday downstairs at the Wheatsheaf at Oxford in support of East Oxford Primary School, featuring my band Black Tish. www.facebook.com/events/18293...
- Our "short" paper on our 2023 experiment with secondary school students doing an Oxford University postgraduate exam is out now. The results were reported in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2023... arxiv.org/abs/2512.00141
- Will be speaking here next week in Barcelona: quantumeducationsummit.eu
- Here is the recording of my talk at the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference. There are many other very interesting talks as well, all available through the Philosophy of Physics's YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@OxfordPhilo... www.youtube.com/live/t69o-8e...
- Now ongoing in Oxford. All being filmed, including the two concerts, one of which was yesterday, orchestral organ + quantum guitar. Worked out well it seems.
- My online `relatorium' aka `compassionate mathematics' talk - some interesting observations in the discussion regarding how the passage to a relational perspective as in Quantum Picturalism, or @rovelli.bsky.social, helps achieving inclusivity of any form. www.youtube.com/live/Oz5dmtI...
- ...not just in terms of making things accessible to the younger, but also more broadly an inclusive societal paradigm, combatting things like racial profiling and (Western-style-)learning difficulties, all of which is rooted in Aristotelian style reasoning, on which society is still very much build
- Being in industrial music, quite something to have a show advertised by the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford, which is traditionally very traditional. Free subsidised show, come and see us. www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/rakhat...
- Glad that I can brag about this paper as co-author as my contribution has been minimal. Takes ZX-calculus to a new level by connecting quantum foundations research, it's initial motivation, to condensed matter physics and (loop) quantum gravity research. arxiv.org/abs/2511.06012
- Reposted by Bob Coecke
Two free quantum music concerts in Oxford with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and @coecke.bsky.social, as part of the “What Quantum?” centenary events. Admittance is free, but spaces are limited. More information: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165314/... - I'll be given a talk this Friday the 14th, 16.30pm UK time. It will be live streamed. Check here: researchseminars.org/talk/CompMat...
- Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and myself will be playing two concerts in Oxford, 20 and 23 November. They are both world-premiere's.
- Reposting this, as it is important. medium.com/quantinuum/e...
- Will be talking at this amazing event in Oxford, celebrating 100 years of Quantum. Scroll down to the satellite events at the bottom of the page for some musical world premiere's! More on those later... www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
- In Palermo for 3rd Int. Symp. on Quantum Computing & Musical Creativity, where I will do a Quantum Guitar demo, present a paper on it, and also present the paper with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin on a new music notation based on ZX-calculus, which we call Quantum Concept Music. 2025.isqcmc.org/program.html
- If you happen to be in Oxford today, we are hosting the Basil Hiley memorial at Wolfson College, Oxford. All welcome! Speakers are Peter Van REETH, P Calum ROBSON, Tim PALMER FRS, Lindon NEIL, Peter BRADSHAW, Bob COECKE, Roger PENROSE
- Program: 0915h Peter Van REETH “Conversations with Basil Hiley concerning The Quantum Potential and more” 10.15h P Calum ROBSON “Clifford Algebras as Phase Spaces” 11.30h Tim PALMER FRS “Four reasons for discretising Hilbert Space”
- 14.15h Lindon NEIL Title: 1952 - DeWitt and Bohm: A tale of two potentials 15.00h Peter BRADSHAW The Algebraic Legacy of Basil Hiley
- 16.00h Bob COECKE “Quantum picturalism, and some interpretable AI, and some music” 16.45h Roger PENROSE “On the Curiously Retro-causal Effects of Quantum State Reduction on Quantum Reality”
- Happy to be part of that scene. Good place to launch Quantum Guitar properly... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
- 100.000 hours of recordings, including: Maths/CS: Grothendieck, Atiyah, Lawvere, MacLane, Eilenberg, Cartier, MacIntyre, Dana Scott, Kreisel… Physics: Penrose, Hawking, Wheeler, Ashtekar, Ward, Geroch, Sciama, Salam, Finkelstein, Bohm… Philosophy: Popper, Quine, Dummett, Wiggins, Badiou, Redhead…
- In four weeks in NY I will be talking about quantum-enabled responsible AI. A few days earlier in Toronto-Fields and a few days later at Perdue Uni too. www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... iqtevent.com/quantumai/ engineering.purdue.edu/IE/PurdueQua...
- Not only at the athletics world cup in Tokyo are new world records set. This is for our H2 quantum computer.
- Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
- It’s the life’s work of Mike Wright who since the early 70’s has been recording scientific talks, well before anyone was doing anything like that, resulting in 100.000 hours of recordings. Just to mention a few names in it:
- Maths/CS: Grothendieck, Atiyah, Lawvere, MacLane, Eilenberg, Cartier, MacIntyre, Dana Scott, Kreisel… Physics: Penrose, Hawking, Wheeler, Ashtekar, Ward, Geroch, Sciama, Salam, Finkelstein, Bohm… Philosophy: Popper, Quine, Dummett, Davidson, Wiggins, Badiou, Redhead…
- New paper, somewhat different. arxiv.org/abs/2509.04526
- In back is my old flat in Brussels (lower of the two sticking out on right). I departed in 2001 with Mazda to Oxford, to never come back. 1st Black Tish album was recorded there. bigtakeover.com/recordings/b... Famous enough square on Boulevard Henry Poincare:. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_...
- Really prefer the name showmen to artist. That's what we do, we make shows.
- Reposted by Bob CoeckeHappy to finally announce this long-overdue paper. TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam. More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
