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Xerxes Arsiwalla Associate Director of Research & Academics

Xerxes is a theoretical physicist. He worked on black holes and string theory during grad school. He did his postdoctoral research in computational neuroscience and complex systems. In addition to fundamental physics, he is interested in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics. He also maintains an interest in the problem of consciousness and intelligence, particularly in mathematical approaches to the mind-body problem.

Research Topics & Interests

• Homotopy Type Theory
• Categorical Semantics
• Quantum Field Theories
• Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Theory
• Information Theory
• Computational Neuroscience

Selected Talks and Presentations

• Computing Meaning from Conceptual Structures in Integrated Information Theory
• BCBT 2016 Lectures
• BCBT 2014 Lectures

Selected Publications

• ZX-Calculus and Extended Wolfram Model Systems II: Fast Diagrammatic Reasoning with an Application to Quantum Circuit Simplification
• ZX-Calculus and Extended Hypergraph Rewriting Systems I: A Multiway Approach to Categorical Quantum Information Theory
• Homotopic Foundations of Wolfram Models
• Morphospace of Consciousness
• Degenerate Stars and Gravitational Collapse in AdS/CFT
• The Global Dynamical Complexity of the Human Brain Network
• Entropy Functions with 5D Chern–Simons Terms

Videos

• Wolfram Physics Project: Working Session [Metamathematics | Part 1]
• Wolfram Physics Project: Working Session [Metamathematics | Part 2]
• Wolfram Physics Project: Working Session [Metamathematics | Part 3]