Bob Coecke

Check out this course, if you want to learn about our quantum pictures!

Link: neurossance.com/courses/quan...

Congrats!

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...

A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing Photonic systems offer a promising platform for interconnecting quantum processors and enabling scalable, networked architectures. Designing and verifying such architectures requires a unified formali...

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...

Ri Wrapped 2025: our most-watched science talks From artificial intelligence to the origins of the Universe, these are the Ri science talks that captivated millions in 2

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...

High schoolers excel at Oxford quantum course using pictorial mathematics We are at the dawn of the second quantum revolution, where our ability to create and control individual quantum systems is poised to drive transformative advancements in basic science, computation, an...

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

Home - Quantum Education Summit Quantum technologies are poised to redefine industries, revolutionize problem-solving, and accelerate scientific discovery. Accessible quantum education is no longer a luxury but a necessity to ensure...

Will be speaking here next week in Barcelona:

quantumeducationsummit.eu

Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference Day 2 YouTube video by Oxford Philosophy of Physics

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.

...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

Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics, now for real! YouTube video by Relatorium

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...

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...

Beyond Penrose tensor diagrams with the ZX calculus: Applications to quantum computing, quantum machine learning, condensed matter physics, and quantum gravity We introduce the Spin-ZX calculus as an elevation of Penrose's diagrams and associated binor calculus to the level of a formal diagrammatic language. The power of doing so is illustrated by the variet...

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

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.

Everyone can learn quantum now, even at a cutting-edge level…and we have the test scores to prove… By Bob Coecke

Reposting this, as it is important.

medium.com/quantinuum/e...

Most of it I think. The music shows will be turned in a documentary.

Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference: What Quantum?

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...

ISQCMC25 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity, Palermo, Palazzo Steri, University of Palermo, Italy, October 28-29, 2025

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

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”

14.15h Lindon NEIL
Title: 1952 - DeWitt and Bohm: A tale of two potentials

15.00h Peter BRADSHAW
The Algebraic Legacy of Basil Hiley

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”

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

How did historic Oxford become the UK's 'rock capital'? According to statistics gathered to mark National Album Day, the historic city comes out on top.

Happy to be part of that scene.

Good place to launch Quantum Guitar properly...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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…

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...

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...