Topological Quantum Field Theory Club (IST, Lisbon)

mathematical physics algebraic topology category theory quantum algebra

Audience:	Researchers in the topic
Seminar series time:	Wednesday 16:00-17:00 in your time zone, UTC
Organizers:	Roger Picken, Marko Stošić, Jose Mourao, John Huerta*
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Upcoming talks

Past talks

Your time			Speaker	Title
Wed	Apr 05	16:00	Kevin Walker	Two approaches to a universal state sum
Wed	Apr 12	16:00	Ivan Contreras	Frobenius objects in the category of spans and the symplectic category
Wed	Apr 19	16:00	Thomas Creutzig	TBA
Wed	May 17	16:00	Jennifer Brown	TBA

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Your time			Speaker	Title
Wed	Mar 22	17:00	Niklas Garner	VOAs and Twisted Chern-Simons-Matter TQFTs
Wed	Mar 01	17:00	Matt Young	$U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(1 \vert 1))$ and $U(1 \vert 1)$ Chern–Simons theory
Wed	Feb 22	17:00	Nathan Geer	Non-semisimple TQFTs
Wed	Feb 15	16:30	Dan Freed	What is an anomaly?
Wed	Feb 08	17:00	James Macpherson	Locally wide quasi-fiat 2-categories and their coalgebra 2-representations
Wed	Jan 25	17:00	Marco Mackaay	2-Representations of affine type A Soergel bimodules: some observations and examples
Wed	Dec 07	17:00	Konstantin Eder	Super Cartan geometry and (loop) quantum supergravity
Wed	Nov 30	17:00	Konrad Waldorf	A representation of the string 2-group
Wed	Nov 16	17:00	Fiona Torzewska	Topological quantum field theories and homotopy cobordisms
Wed	Oct 26	16:00	Marko Vojinovic	Insights into the Standard Model and quantum gravity from higher gauge theory
Wed	Sep 21	16:00	Pavel Safronov	Skein modules and 4d TQFTs
Wed	Sep 14	16:00	Marina Logares	Hitchin systems
Wed	Jun 29	16:00	Radmila Sazdanovic	Bilinear pairings on two-dimensional cobordisms and generalizations of the Deligne category
Wed	Jun 15	16:00	Marc Lackenby	Knot theory and machine learning
Wed	Jun 08	16:00	Álvaro del Pino Gómez	h-Principles and applications to distributions
Wed	Jun 01	16:00	Nima Moshayedi	Cutting-Gluing of TQFTs in the Symplectic Cohomological Formalism
Wed	May 25	16:00	Simone Noja	The de Rham / Spencer double complex and the geometry of forms on supermanifolds
Tue	May 17	16:30	Eugene Rabinovich	Classical Bulk-Boundary Correspondences via Factorization Algebras
Mon	May 09	14:00	Nezhla Aghaei	Combinatorial quantisation of Supergroup Chern–Simons Theory
Wed	May 04	16:00	Jamie Vicary	Introducing homotopy.io: A proof assistant for geometrical higher category theory
Wed	Apr 27	16:00	Pavel Mnev	On the Fukaya-Morse A-infinity category
Wed	Apr 20	16:00	Nezhla Aghaei	Combinatorial quantisation of Supergroup Chern–Simons Theory
Wed	Apr 13	16:00	Ángel González Prieto	Topological Quantum Field Theories for Character Stacks
Wed	Apr 06	16:00	Yonatan Harpaz	The cobordism hypothesis in dimension 1
Wed	Mar 30	16:00	Dmitri Pavlov	The geometric cobordism hypothesis
Wed	Mar 16	17:00	Christoph Dorn	Manifold diagrams: Poincaré duality, singularities, and smooth structures
Wed	Mar 09	17:00	Manuel Araújo	String diagrams for higher categories
Wed	Feb 16	17:00	Daniel Grady	Deformation classes of invertible field theories and the Freed-Hopkins conjecture
Wed	Feb 02	17:00	Emily Cliff	Moduli spaces of principal 2-group bundles and a categorification of the Freed–Quinn line bundle
Wed	Jan 26	17:00	Jeffrey C. Morton	The Fock Pseudomonad: Groupoidifying Second Quantization
Wed	Jan 19	17:00	Giorgio Trentinaglia	Simplicial vector bundles and representations up to homotopy
Wed	Dec 15	17:00	Vladimir M. Stojanovic	Lie-algebraic aspects of quantum control: gate realization and W-to-GHZ state conversion
Wed	Nov 17	17:00	Brian R. Williams	Exceptional super Lie algebras in twisted M-theory
Wed	Oct 13	16:00	Tijana Radenković	Topological higher gauge theory - from 2BF to 3BF theory
Fri	Sep 24	16:00	João Faria Martins	Quinn Finite Total Homotopy TQFT as a once-extended TQFT
Fri	Jun 25	16:00	Fabian Haiden	Categorical Kähler Geometry
Fri	Jun 18	16:00	Theo Johnson-Freyd	Higher S-matrices
Fri	Jun 04	16:00	Ingmar Saberi	Twists of supergravity theories via algebraic geometry
Fri	May 28	16:00	Dmitry Melnikov	Entanglement and complexity from TQFT
Fri	May 21	16:00	Bruce Bartlett	Asymptotics of the classical and quantum $6j$ symbols
Fri	May 14	08:00	Si Li	Geometry of Localized Effective Theories and Algebraic Index
Fri	May 07	16:00	Christian Saemann	Adjusted Higher Gauge Theory: Connections and Parallel Transport
Fri	Apr 16	16:00	Giordano Cotti	Quantum differential equations, qKZ difference equations, and helices
Fri	Apr 09	16:00	Roger Picken	Link invariants from finite crossed modules and a lifting of the Eisermann invariant
Fri	Mar 19	18:00	Pedro Resende	An abstract theory of physical measurements
Fri	Mar 19	17:00	Fabio di Cosmo	Statistical Interpretation in the Schwinger’s picture of Quantum Mechanics
Fri	Mar 12	17:00	Ikshu Neithalath	Skein Lasagna modules of 2-handlebodies
Fri	Mar 05	14:00	Owen Gwilliam	Bulk-boundary correspondences with factorization algebras
Fri	Feb 26	17:00	Ben Elias	Introduction to the Hecke category and the diagonalization of the full twist
Fri	Feb 19	17:00	David Reutter	Semisimple topological field theories in even dimensions
Fri	Feb 12	17:00	Florio Ciaglia	A groupoid-based perspective on quantum mechanics
Fri	Jan 29	17:00	Severin Bunk	Universal Symmetries of Gerbes and Smooth Higher Group Extensions
Fri	Jan 22	17:00	Renee Hoekzema	Manifolds with odd Euler characteristic and higher orientability
Fri	Jan 15	17:00	Brent Pym	Multiple zeta values in deformation quantization
Fri	Jan 08	17:00	Pedro Vaz	Categorification of Verma Modules in low-dimensional topology
Fri	Dec 18	17:00	Penka Georgieva	Klein TQFT and real Gromov-Witten invariants
Fri	Dec 11	17:00	Anna Beliakova	Cyclotomic expansions of the $gl_N$ knot invariants
Fri	Dec 04	17:00	Victor Ostrik	Two dimensional topological field theories and partial fractions
Fri	Nov 20	17:00	Tudor Dimofte	$3d$ A and B models and link homology
Fri	Nov 13	17:00	Vladimir Dragović	Ellipsoidal billiards, extremal polynomials, and partitions
Fri	Nov 06	17:00	Marco Mackaay	The double-centralizer theorem in 2-representation theory and its applications
Fri	Oct 30	17:00	João Faria Martins	Crossed modules, homotopy 2-types, knotted surfaces and welded knots
Fri	Oct 16	16:00	Miranda Cheng	Quantum modular forms and $3$-manifolds
Fri	Oct 09	16:00	Alexander Shapiro	Cluster realization of quantum groups and higher Teichmüller theory
Fri	Oct 02	16:00	Davide Masoero	Counting Monster Potentials
Fri	Sep 25	16:00	André Henriques	Reps of relative mapping class groups via conformal nets
Fri	Sep 11	16:00	Alexis Virelizier	Homotopy Quantum Field Theories
Fri	Jul 24	16:00	Ezra Getzler	Gluing local gauge conditions in BV quantum field theory
Fri	Jul 17	16:00	Pedro Boavida de Brito	Galois symmetries of knot spaces
Fri	Jul 10	16:00	Ricardo Campos	The homotopy type of associative and commutative algebras
Fri	Jul 03	16:00	Tom Sutherland	Mirror symmetry for Painlevé surfaces
Fri	Jun 26	16:00	Marko Stošić	Rational and algebraic links and knots-quivers correspondence
Fri	Jun 19	16:00	Mikhail Khovanov	Introduction to foam evaluation
Fri	Jun 12	16:00	Antti Kupiainen	Integrability of Liouville Conformal Field Theory
Fri	Jun 05	16:00	John Huerta	Bundle Gerbes on Supermanifolds
Fri	May 29	16:00	Danica Kosanović	Knot invariants from homotopy theory
Fri	May 22	16:00	Sergei Gukov	Hidden algebraic structures in topology

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