Program

We plan to have ample time for the research teams to work together and plenty of networking activities for the participants!

Each team will give an overview talk about their project during the week, with titles:

* Aghaei-Garcia Failde-Peltola: "Conformal field theory, integrability, and probability: the story so far" by Harini Desiraju,

* Barron-Orosz Hunziker-Yamskulna: "Graded dimensions, and pseudotraces" by Florencia Orosz Hunziker and "On rationality of $\mathbb{C}$-graded vertex algebras and applications to Weyl vertex algebras" by Veronika Pedic Tomic.

* Cederbaum-Graf-Harris: "Static Lorentzian length spaces" by Melanie Graf and Stacey Harris.

* Grassi-Izadi-Kamenova: "Hyperkaehler manifolds and Lagrangian fibrations" by Elham Izadi.

* Plavnik-Ros Camacho: "Zesting the minimal models" by Ana Kontrec and Julia Plavnik.

* Taormina-Wendland: "Mathieu Moonshine and $T_4/Z_3$ sigma models" by Ida Zadeh and "Symmetries of K3 surfaces" by Kasia Budzik.

Slides of the talks can be found below.

The networking activities will be:

• An online kick-off lecture by Sylvie Paycha (Universitaet Potsdam),

Location: online only, at BIRS main Zoom room.

Sylvie will deliver two talks,

-- "Mathematical reflections on locality"

Abstract: "Starting from the principle of locality in quantum field theory, which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings, I shall first briefly review some features of the notion of locality arising in physics and mathematics. These are then encoded in  locality relations, given by symmetric binary relations whose graph consists of pairs of "mutually independent elements". Locality morphisms, namely maps that factorise on products of such pairs of elements, play a key role in the context of renormalisation in multiple variables. They include "locality evaluators", which are used to consistently evaluate meromorphic germs in several variables at their poles. If time allows, I will report on recent joint work with Li Guo and Bin Zhang which gives a classification of locality evaluators on certain classes of algebras of meromorphic germs.  It uses previous joint work with these two authors and Pierre Clavier.

-- "The short story of a growing touring exhibition"

Abstract: "The story begins more than 10 years ago, when I was asked to deliver a talk on women in mathematics in Konstanz and decided to present 10 women of mathematics I had met around the world, thereby adopting a subjective point of view on the world of mathematics. After that, subjectivity became an essential feature of our touring exhibition, with portraits of women of mathematics made by the photographer Noel Matoff and interviews I carried out with the portrayed women."

Slides of the talk can be find below.

• An online kick-off lecture by Nina Holden (Courant Institute, New York University),

Location: hybrid, TCPL 201 for in-person participants and at BIRS main Zoom room for online participants.

Nina will deliver a talk with title "Random curves and surfaces".

Abstract: "How can you sample a surface uniformly at random? A natural approach is to consider a uniformly sampled planar map, which is a model for a discrete surface studied in many branches of both math and physics. When the size of the surface goes to infinity it converges to the continuum random surface known as a Liouville quantum gravity surface, which was originally introduced in the physics literature. We will give an introduction to these objects and present a powerful technique to study them known as conformal welding, where the random fractal curves known as Schramm-Loewner evolutions.

Slides of the talk can be find below.

• A presentation of the newly created Association of Women in Mathematical Physics by Cristina Caraci (University of Zurich) followed by a distinguished talk by Constanza Rojas Molina (CY Cergy Paris Université),

Location: hybrid, TCPL 201 for in-person participants and at BIRS main Zoom room for online participants.

Coni will talk about "Finding your Ikigai in Academia".

Abstract: "the Japanese concept of Ikigai refers to a driving force giving purpose or meaning to your life. Applied to Academia, your Ikigai is the sweet spot where your work interests, your talents and your principles meet to make the best version of your professional self in balance with your private self. Navigating Academia can be hard, and your goals and principles can change under the system's pressure. Have you ever asked yourself if you fit, if you can find a place for yourself in academia? In this talk  we will discuss what we can do to make a place for ourselves that respects our identity and our principles and I will share my personal experience building that place, as a researcher, teacher, science communicator, illustrator, and a person with family life too. Spoiler alert: it is a constant work in progress!"

• A workshop on the imposter syndrome by Karina Batistelli (Axia Coaching and Consulting) and Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington, USA),

Location: hybrid, TCPL 201 for in-person participants and at BIRS main Zoom room for online participants.

• Hybrid coffee breaks, 

Location: hybrid, TCPL Foyer for in-person participants and at BIRS main Zoom room for online participants.

• Research and mentoring mini-meetings (both in person and online),

Location: hybrid, TBA via email to each participant.

• And a poster session.

Location: Zulip workshop stream.

Besides, we will have ample time for research in groups, and talks by each of the research groups on their respective research projects. For their online members, each team is welcomed to use for research in groups the following Zoom rooms (see BIRS "Welcome participants" email):

* Aghaei-Garcia Failde-Peltola: Zoom breakout room 1,

* Barron-Orosz Hunziker-Yamskulna: Zoom breakout room 2,

* Cederbaum-Graf-Harris: Zoom breakout room 3,

* Grassi-Izadi-Kamenova: Zoom breakout room 4.

The in-person locations will be sorted on Monday.

Kick off talks slides:

Research group talks: