The kick-off event for the newly established Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries https://wp.math.berkeley.edu/scgcs/, was held on October 11-13, 2021 simultaneously at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) in Stony Brook NY, and at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh UK.
This was a twinned and hybrid event due to current travel restrictions. Through this collaboration a number of conferences and workshops over the next several years have been organised.
The below questions were raised for discussion during the lecture:
What is quantum field theory? – led by Dan Freed and Nathan Seiberg
Non-invertible symmetries – led by Zohar Komargodski, Kantaro Ohmori, Shu-Heng Shao, and Ryan Thorngren
Symmetries and gauge theory – led by Greg Moore and Nikita Nekrasov
Lectures
Several lectures were provided from our PI’s outlining the tools and aims of the collaboration (precise program TBD).
There were a number of guest lectures provided by the following speakers:
Davide Gaiotto
Anton Kapustin
Alexei Kitaev
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
Xiao-Gan Wen
See link to Simons event page here
