Global Categorical Symmetries

America/Toronto
Constantin Teleman (University of California, Berkeley), Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University), Julia Plavnik (Indiana University), Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala University), Theo Johnson-Freyd (Perimeter Institute & Dalhousie University)
Description

Recently enormous progress has been achieved in our understanding of the notion of global symmetries of quantum field theories (QFTs). These developments sparked from the realization that global symmetries can be generalized in terms of a quasitopological subsector of the spectrum of defects of a given QFT. The defects in question have various possible codimensions and this gives rise to interesting fusion rules that generalizes widely the notion of groups. The interplay of these generalized global symmetries and phases leads to a categorical version of the Landau paradigm, which is tightly related to the classification of phases in terms of gapped topological theories and anomalies. The aim of this school and workshop is to set the foundations for further developments in these directions by establishing a common ground at the verge of the mathematics and physics involved.

This event is supported by the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries.

The first week of this event will consist of a conference, followed by a school in the second week. We plan for these events to be primarily in-person; participants may also choose to attend virtually. We continue to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and appropriate safety precautions will be in place. Pandemic-related regulations change rapidly, and the event will be held online if necessary.

PIRSA:  https://pirsa.org/C22008

 

Territorial Land Acknowledgement

Perimeter Institute acknowledges that it is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples.

Perimeter Institute is located on the Haldimand Tract. After the American Revolution, the tract was granted by the British to the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation as compensation for their role in the war and for the loss of their traditional lands in upstate New York. Of the 950,000 acres granted to the Haudenosaunee, less than 5 percent remains Six Nations land. Only 6,100 acres remain Mississaugas of the Credit land.

We thank the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples for hosting us on their land.

 

Participants
  • Adrien DeLazzer Meunier
  • Ahsan Khan
  • Alexandre Homrich
  • Alissa Furet
  • Ana Ros Camacho
  • Andrea Antinucci
  • Andrea Boido
  • Andrea Ferrari
  • Andrea Grigoletto
  • Anja Svraka
  • Anuj Apte
  • Apoorv Tiwari
  • Araminta Wilson
  • Arkya Chatterjee
  • Arun Debray
  • Aswin Parayil Mana
  • Avia Raviv Moshe
  • Cameron Krulewski
  • Carolyn Zhang
  • Catherine Lee
  • Chan Bae
  • Changha Choi
  • Charles Reid
  • Chelsea Walton
  • Chong Wang
  • Chris Fechisin
  • Christian Copetti
  • Christopher Douglas
  • Chun-Yu Bai
  • Clay Cordova
  • Clement Delcamp
  • Colleen Delaney
  • Constantin Teleman
  • Cris Negron
  • Dan Freed
  • Daniel Teixeira
  • Davi Costa
  • David Hui
  • David Jordan
  • David Reutter
  • Dewi Gould
  • Diego Alonso Garcia Sepulveda
  • Diego Delmastro
  • Ding Jia
  • Dongwook Ghim
  • Eilind Karlsson
  • Elias Riedel Gårding
  • Emily Nardoni
  • Enoch Leung
  • Evyatar Sabag
  • Fabio Calderon
  • Federico Ambrosino
  • Federico Bonetti
  • Fei Yan
  • Filippos Ilarion Sytilidis
  • Francisco Zúñiga Frias
  • Giovanni Galati
  • Giovanni Rizi
  • Gregory Moore
  • Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis
  • Guillermo Arias-Tamargo
  • Hannah Tillim
  • Hao Xu
  • Hao Zhang
  • Haochen Zhang
  • Harshit Yadav
  • Heidar Moradi
  • Ho Tat Lam
  • Hongdi Huang
  • Hongliang Jiang
  • Hongliang Jiang
  • Ibrahima Bah
  • Iordanis Romaidis
  • Ishan Gunjal
  • Ivan Mauricio Burbano Aldana
  • Iñaki García Etxebarria
  • James Munday
  • Jan Pulmann
  • Jiaxin Qiao
  • Jin-Cheng Guu
  • Jingxiang Wu
  • Jingxiang Wu
  • John Huerta
  • John Nolan
  • Joseph Merritt
  • Julia Plavnik
  • Julius Grimminger
  • Justin Hilburn
  • Justin Kaidi
  • Justin Kulp
  • Kaiwen Sun
  • Kangle Li
  • Kansei Inamura
  • Kantaro Omori
  • Kasia Budzik
  • Keivan Namjou
  • Ken Intriligator
  • Lakshya Bhardwaj
  • Lea Elisa Bottini
  • Li Feng
  • Liujun Zou
  • Lotte Hollands
  • Lukas Mueller
  • Luuk Stehouwer
  • Madhav Sinha
  • Marieke van Beest
  • Mathew Bullimore
  • Matteo Lotito
  • Matthew Magill
  • Matthew Yu
  • Maziar Farahzad
  • Meng Cheng
  • Michael Hopkins
  • Michele Del Zotto
  • Michelle Dong
  • Mikhail Litvinov
  • Mitch Weaver
  • Mitch Weaver
  • Mostafa Adnane
  • NADİR YAVUZKAN
  • Nafiz Ishtiaque
  • Namrata Joshi
  • Nathan Seiberg
  • Nathanan Tantivasadakarn
  • Nayeong Kim
  • Nicolai Reshetikhin
  • NIKITA SOPENKO
  • Nils Carqueville
  • Nitu Kitchloo
  • Patrick Kinnear
  • Patrícia Muñoz Ewald
  • Pietro Benetti Genolini
  • Pietro Longhi
  • Pingyuan Gu
  • Piotr Bargiela
  • Pranay Gorantla
  • Rafael Grossi
  • Rajath Radhakrishnan
  • Rajath Radhakrishnan
  • Ran Luo
  • Riccardo Ciccone
  • Richard Wedeen
  • Robert Moscrop
  • Roman Geiko
  • Roman Mauch
  • Ruizhi Liu
  • Ryan Lanzetta
  • Ryohei Kobayashi
  • Saebyeok Jeong
  • Saghar Hosseini
  • Sahand Seifnashri
  • Salvatore Pace
  • Sam Hannah
  • Sean Sanford
  • Severin Bunk
  • Seyed Faroogh Moosavian
  • Shani Nadir Meynet
  • Sheng-Jie Huang
  • Shreya Shukla
  • Simon Langenscheidt
  • Stathis Vitouladitis
  • Subrabalan Murugesan
  • Sunghyuk Park
  • Tai Wai Hu
  • Theo Johnson-Freyd
  • Thibault Decoppet
  • Thomas Bartsch
  • Thomas Waddleton
  • Tim Hsieh
  • Tudor Dimofte
  • Tzu-Chen Huang
  • Vito Pellizzani
  • Vivek Saxena
  • Wenjie Ji
  • William Stewart
  • Xuzhe Ying
  • Yannic VARGAS
  • YI-HSIEN DU
  • Yichul Choi
  • Yidun Wan
  • Yifan Wang
  • Yifei He
  • Yongchao Lu
  • Yu Leon Liu
  • Yu-An Chen
  • Yunqin Zheng
  • Zhengdi Sun
  • Zipei Zhang
  • Zohar Komargodski
Stephanie Mohl