Hello, world!
Eric Schmid is a mathematical sciences PhD researcher at GCAS College (Dublin) working on “sheaves for decentralized control” with co-advisors Prof. Fernando Tohmé, Prof. Neil Ghani (Strathclyde) and Dr. Toby St Clere Smithe (Topos Institute).
Committee members include: Dr. Hans Riess (Georgia Tech), Prof. Mike Shulman (University of San Diego), Prof. Colin McLarty (Case Western), Prof. Rocco Gangle (Endicott) and Prof. William Mansky (UIC).
A multidisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and computer science, Schmid is completing his MS in Applied Mathematics at DePaul University (expected March 2025). He holds a BA from New York University, where he studied Continental Philosophy and Visual Art with a Minor in Mathematics and has completed formal coursework in Introduction to Microeconomics, as well as Introduction to Python at the University of Chicago. In 2007, he co-authored a paper on the economics of targeted drugs in Targeted Oncology as part of an internship at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He has co-organized two conferences at the Emily Harvey Foundation on the philosophy of science and logic. In 2024, he published a conversation between logician Prof. Colin McLarty and philosopher of math Dr. Andrei Rodin on Schmid’s publishing imprint. In 2022, he published a book of his own writing on the philosophy of math Prolegomenon to a Treatise with Bauer Verlag.
Forthcoming doctoral work
My notes on sheaf theory and cohomology (UPDATED April 9, 2025)