Mini-Courses

Seven dynamic lecture mini-courses on topics at the forefront of quantum symmetries research, presented by international experts!

• Titles, abstracts and further information

• Schedule (see below)

• Some problems related to finite W-algebras that will be discussed during Daniele Valeri's problem session.

• An exercise sheet of questions that will be discussed during Jethro van Ekeren's problem session.

• The slides from Simon Lentner's minicourse.

• Titles of contributed talks from students and postdocs:
  Simone Castellan: Star deformations for Poisson Vertex Algebras.
  Justine Fasquel: Rationality of subregular W-algebras associated with $sp_4$.
  Jin-Cheng Guu: Crane-Yetter theory and Drinfeld Centers.
  Thibault Juillard: Reduction by stages for finite W-algebras.
  Yuto Moriwaki: Vertex operator algebra, braided tensor category and colored parenthesized braid operad.
  Hector Peña Pollastri: Finite dimensional representations of the double of the Jordan plane.
  Chris Raymond: Unitary vertex algebras and Wightman QFT.
  Andrew Riesen: Beyond the Dijkgraaf-Witten Conjecture.
  Kursat Sozer: State-sum homotopy invariants of maps from 3-manifolds to 2-types.
  Shoma Sugimoto: Conjectures on plumbed VOAs.
  Daniel Wallick: An algebraic quantum field theoretic approach to toric code with boundary.
  Harshit Yadav: On unimodular module categories