Mathematical Physics

McNamara-Wang ReconstructionConfirmed

Name: McNamara-Wang Reconstruction
Start: 2026-05-01T14:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-01T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

by Theo Johnson-Freyd (Dalhousie University)

Friday May 1, 2026, 2:30 PM → 4:00 PM America/Toronto

PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/3-394 - Skyroom

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Description

I will say some words about nonunital categories, and tell you an awesome new theorem of McNamara and Wang: unitary QFTs are determined by their partition functions.

Organized by

Kevin Costello, Roland Bittleston