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I apologize for the inconsistent formatting below!

 

Fall 2022:

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9/8/2022- Robert Laugwitz, University of Nottingham:

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Relative Drinfeld centers and non-semisimple modular tensor categories

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9/22/2022- Julia Pevstova, University of Washington:

 

Representations of a small quantum group via half quantum flag variety.

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10/6/2022- Thibault Décoppet, University of Oxford:

 

The Morita Theory of Fusion 2-Categories

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10/20/2022- Sarah Reznikoff, Kansas State University:

 

Regular ideals and regular inclusions

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11/3/2022- Maissam Barkeshli, University of Maryland:

 

Defects and higher symmetries in (3+1)D topological phases of matter
 

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11/17/2022- TBA

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12/1/2022- Hongdi Huang, Rice University (Rescheduled for next semester)

 

Spring 2022:

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1/13/2022- Ying-Hsuan Lin, Harvard: Numerical Evidence for a Haagerup conformal field theory.

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1/20/2022- Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago: Conway's Rational Tangles and the Thompson group.

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1/27/2022- Ana Ros Camacho, Cardiff University: On generalizing a tensor equivalence within the Landau-Ginzburg/conformal field theory correspondence

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2/3/2022- Kevin Walker, Microsoft Research: Going from n+ε to n+1 in non-semisimple oriented TQFTs.
 

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2/10/2022- Ramona Wolf, ETH Zurich: Computing F-symbols of endomorphism fusion categories.

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2/17/2022- Kristin Courtney, University of Münster: Nuclearity and generalized inductive limits.

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2/24/2022- Bruno Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis: The stability of gapped phases and automorphic equivalence
 

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3/3/2022- Luca Giorgetti, University of Rome, Tor Vergata: A planar algebraic description of conditional expectations

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3/10/2022- Roberto Conti, Sapienza Università di Roma: Symmetries of noncommutative spaces: a guided tour through the Cuntz algebra case

 

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4/7/2022- Bojko Bakalov, North Carolina State University: An operadic approach to vertex algebras and Poisson vertex algebras
 

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4/14/2022- Richard Ng, Louisiana State University: Reconstruction of modular data from representations of SL(2,Z)
 

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4/21/2022- Laura Colmenarejo, North Carolina State University: An insertion algorithm on multiset partitions with applications to diagram algebras

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4/28/2022- Shawn Cui, Purdue University: From Three Manifolds to Modular Categories 
 

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5/5/2022- Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge: Introducing homotopy.io: A proof assistant for geometrical higher
category theory

 

 

 

Fall 2021:

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8/26/2021- Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT:

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Generalized symmetry, local fusion higher category, and their holographic point of view.

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9/2/2021- Ingo Runkel, Universität Hamburg:

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Defects and orbifolds in Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs

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9/9/2021- Amanda Young, TU Munich:

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A bulk gap in the presence of edge states for a truncated Haldane psueodpotential

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9/16/2021- Henry Tucker, UC Riverside:

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Frobenius-Schur indicators for quadratic fusion categories and their Drinfel’d centers

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9/23/2021- Ben Hayes, University of Virginia:

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Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras

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9/30/2021- David Jordan, University of Edinburgh:

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Higher symmetries in skein theory

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10/7/2021- Alexei Davydov, Ohio University:

 

Moduli spaces of tensor categories

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10/14/2021- Pieter Naaijkens, Cardiff University:

 

Long-range entanglement and the split property

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10/21/2021- Dan Freed, University of Texas at Austin:

 

Boundaries and 3-dimensional topological field theories

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10/28/2021- Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University:

 

Reflection Hopf algebras

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11/4/2021- Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh:

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Axioms for the category of Hilbert spaces
 

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11/11/2021- No Talk: Veteran's Day (Nicolle González  talk rescheduled for next semester).

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11/18/2021- Peter Schauenburg, Université de Bourgogne:

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Prime factorization of modular categories

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Spring 2021:

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1/14/2021- Michael Brannan, Texas A&M University:

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Quantum graphs and quantum Cuntz-Krieger algebras.

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1/21/2021- No talk this week (rescheduled for 3/4/2021).

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1/28/2021- Victor Ostrik, University of Oregon:

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Two dimensional topological field theories and partial fractions.

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2/4/2021- Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin - Madison: 

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Fusion rules for Hopf algebras.

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2/11/2021 (TALK AT 2PM US EASTERN)- Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology:

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Foliation structure in fracton models.

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2/18/2021- Theo Johnson-Freyd, Dalhousie University/Perimeter Institute:

 

Condensations and Components.

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2/25/2021- Noah Snyder, Indiana University, Bloomington: 

 

Demystifying subfactor techniques for constructing tensor categories

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3/4/2021- Andy Manion, University of Southern California:

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Higher representations and cornered Floer homology.

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3/11/2021- No talk this week.

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3/18/2021- Zhenghan Wang, University of California Santa Barbara:

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Quantum algebras climb the dimension ladder.

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3/25/2021- Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University:

 

Torsion in the Witt group and higher central charges.

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4/1/2021- Jacob Bridgeman, Perimeter Institute:

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Enriching topological codes: computing with defects.

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4/8/2021- Yilong Wang, Louisiana State University: 

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Classification of transitive modular categories.

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4/15/2021- (Rescheduled to 5/20/2021) 

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4/22/2021- Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University

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Bilinear pairings on two-dimensional cobordisms and generalizations of the Deligne category.

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4/29/2021- Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University:

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Elements of ∞-Category Theory.

 

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5/6/2021- Tobias Osborne, Leibniz Universität Hannover: 

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Fusion categories and physics: a statistical physics approach.

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5/20/2021- Claudia Scheimbauer, Technische Universität München:

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Higher Morita categories and extensions.

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5/27/2021- Ehud Meir,  University of Aberdeen:

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Interpolations of symmetric monoidal categories and algebraic structures via invariant theory.

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Fall 2020

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8/27/2020- David Reutter, Max Planck Institute: 

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Semisimple topological field theories and exotic smooth structures.

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9/3/2020- Andrew Schopieray, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences: 

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The importance of norm and trace for fusion categories.

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9/10/2020- Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: TBA 

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New incompressible symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic.​

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9/17/2020- Florencia Orosz Hunziker, University of Colorado, Boulder:

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Tensor categories arising from the Virasoro algebra.

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9/24/2020- Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University:

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Symmetries of modular categories and quantum subgroups

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10/1/2020- André Henriques, University of Oxford: 

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Extended chiral CFT and a new kind of anomaly

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10/8/2020- Stuart White, University of Oxford:

 

Simple amenable operator algebras

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10/15/2020- Chelsea Walton, Rice University:

 

Universal Quantum Semigroupoids

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10/22/2020- Fiona Burnell, University of Minnesota:

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An introduction to fracton order

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10/29/2020- Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire:

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Braided module categories​

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11/5/2020- Guillermo Sanmarco, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba:

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Pre-Nichols algebras with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension​

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11/12/2020- Christoph Schweigert, Universität Hamburg: 

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Topological field theories with boundaries: from tensor networks to Frobenius-Schur indicators​

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11/19/2020- César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes:

 

Braided Zesting and its applications.

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12/3/2020- Colleen Delaney, Indiana University, Bloomington: 

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Ribbon zesting can produce modular isotopes.​

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12/10/2020- Cris Negron, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:

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Geometries for finite tensor categories.

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