MRC Week 2a, June 10 – 16, 2018

Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Fusion Categories

Organizers:
David Penneys, The Ohio State University
Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
Noah Snyder, Indiana University

Just as a group encodes classical symmetry, subfactors and fusion categories encode quantum symmetry. These mathematical objects have applications in a diverse range of settings across mathematics and physics, including invariants of 3-manifolds, representation theory, condensed matter physics, topological phases of matter, and quantum information. This program will bring together graduate students, postdocs, and early career researchers from operator algebras, representation theory, category theory, topology, and quantum information theory to work together on problems on classifying, understanding, and applying quantum symmetries.

The application period is closed. No further applications will be accepted.

Here is a list of individuals who participated in this conference:

Marcel Bischoff
Costel Bontea
Paul Bruillard
Ian Charlesworth
Colleen Delaney
Cain Edie-michell
Samuel Evington
Luca Giorgetti
Paul Gustafson
Jordyn Harriger
Roberto Hernandez Palomares
Corey Jones
Shuang Ming
Cris Negron
Travis Russell
Lauren Ruth
Sherilyn Tamagawa
James Tener
Xingting Wang
Yilong Wang
Elizabeth Wicks
Qing Zhang

Further information for 2018 participants

Contact Information

For further information, please contact the Associate Executive Director at aed-mps@ams.org.