Schedule for: 23w5091 - Subfactors and Fusion (2-)Categories

Beginning on Sunday, December 3 and ending Friday December 8, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, December 3
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering
Informal Meet and Greet at BIRS Lounge (2nd floor PDC building).
(Other (See Description))
Monday, December 4
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:30 Victor Ostrik: Growth in tensor powers (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Christoph Schweigert: Duality beyond rigidity (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:15 Yoshiko Ogata: Boundary states of a bulk gapped ground state in 2d quantum spin systems (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Cain Edie-Michell: Diagrammatics for Conformal Embeddings (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 12:00am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:30 - 15:30 Chelsea Walton: Short talks session (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 17:30 David Penneys: Open problems session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, December 5
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Chelsea Walton: Reflective centers of module categories and quantum K-matrices (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Robert McRae: Tensor categories from C_2-cofinite vertex operator algebras: an overview (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:15 Corey Jones: Topological invariants of symmetric quantum cellular automata (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Dietmar Bisch: New small index subfactors (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 15:00 Work session 1 (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:30 Work session 2 (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, December 6
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 David Reutter: Minimal modular extensions via fusion 2-categories (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Michael Brannan: On the structure of quantum automorphism groups of finite dimensional C*-algebras (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:15 Ramona Wolf: Computing F-symbols for the quantum double via tube algebras (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Kevin Walker: Lie group symmetries and non-unital higher categories (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, December 7
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Lyne Moser: 2-limits and 2-terminal objects are too different (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Pinhas Grossman: "Almost" Near-group Categories (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:15 Cesar Galindo: Trivializing group actions on tensor categories (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Agustina Czenky: Classification of low rank integral modular categories (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 15:00 Work session 3 (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:30 Work session 4 (Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, December 8
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:15 Thibault Décoppet: The homotopy coherent classification of fusion 2-categories (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Andrew Schopieray: Near integral fusion categories (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
10:45 - 11:15 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi: Bi-unitary connections, modular tensor categories and alpha-induction (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 12:00 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)