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Eric Schmid is a PhD researcher in Mathematics and Science at GCAS College Dublin supervised by Prof. Fernando Tohmé and Prof. Rocco Gangle, working on the foundations of math, specifically the categorical (fibrational) semantics between Homotopy Type Theory and Polynomial Functors, as well as applied sheaf theory for a decentralized protocol of multiagent systems. He earned an MS in Applied Mathematics from DePaul University (March 2025). (He briefly attended the University of Chicago’s MS in Computer Science program before transferring to DePaul University to finish an MS in Applied Mathematics in 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 at the University of Chicago in the Economics Department (Introduction to Microeconomics) and Computer Science Department (Introduction to Python). 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.)
Preprints:
- Applied Sheaf Theory For Multi-agent Artificial Intelligence (Reinforcement Learning) Systems: A Prospectus
- With F. Tohmé and W. Chin, Sheaves on Quivers via a Grothendieck Topology on the Path Category