The theory of quantum groups has been a curious meeting point of analysis and algebra since its inception, and it provides powerful guiding principles in mathematics and mathematical physics. Historically, the formalism of representing symmetry by groups led to many groundbreaking discoveries in pure and applied mathematics to understand various structures. However, the developments of modern mathematics and quantum physics revealed the need to go beyond that framework in order to capture a new kind of symmetry hidden from plain sight. This led to the birth of quantum groups in the 1980's by Drinfeld and Jimbo among others from algebraic study of quantum integrable systems, and Woronowicz from an operator algebraic study of quantized spaces. About 30 years after the advent, the interplay between these different approaches still provides new viewpoints leading to surprising new results. Moreover, the theory of tensor categories is deeply linked with the representation theory of quantum groups, but also with other fields such as quantum field theory and subfactor theory.
To this end we organize a summer school and a workshop at University of Oslo with distinguished international lecturers.
Summer school
The aim of this summer school is to help young scientists familiarize with, and start working on problems in the above mentioned fields. The main lecture series are given by four leading researchers in these fields.
- Period: July 29–August 2, 2019
- Location: Georg Sverdrups hus Auditorium 2, University of Oslo
- Lectures:
- Loïc Foissy (University of the Littoral Opal Coast): Combinatorial Hopf algebras and operads
- David Jordan (The University of Edinburgh): Morita theory for tensor categories
- Ulrich Krähmer (TU Dresden): Hopf algebras
- Christian Voigt (The University of Glasgow): Locally compact quantum groups
- Short talks:
- Ryan Aziz (Queen Mary University of London)
- Hadewijch De Clercq (Ghent University)
- Daniel Gromada (Saarland University)
- Lucia Rotheray (TU Dresden)
See lecture contents page for schedule and other information.
Workshop
The workshop aims at bringing together experts from all over the world in the domains of (locally) compact quantum groups, Hopf algebras and tensor categories. As described above, investigating the interplay of these three fields is of high importance for the development of quantum groups in general and the workshop is supposed to support this development.
We encourage the participants of the summer school to stay for the workshop too, in order to get in contact with researchers in the field.
- Period: August 5–9, 2019
- Location: Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus Auditorium 1, University of Oslo
- Long talks:
- Martina Balagovic (Newcastle University)
- Gabriella Böhm (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
- Arnaud Brothier (UNSW Sydney)
- Alexandru Chirvasitu (The University at Buffalo)
- Jason Crann (Carleton University)
- Francesco Fidaleo (The University of Rome Tor Vergata)
- Loïc Foissy (University of the Littoral Opal Coast)
- Hun Hee Lee (Seoul National University)
- Yuri I. Manin (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
- Ehud Meir (The University of Aberdeen)
- Alexander Shapiro (The University of Edinburgh)
- Adam Skalski (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Alexander Stottmeister (The University of Münster)
- Wenqing Tao (Hasselt University)
- Ami Viselter (The University of Haifa)
- Christian Voigt (The University of Glasgow)
- Jonas Wahl (The University of Bonn)
- Short talks:
- Arkadiusz Bochniak (Jagiellonian University)
- Paweł Joziak (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Tobias Ohrmann (Leibniz University Hannover)
- Damien Rivet (University Clermont Auvergne)
- Simon Schmidt (Saarland University)
- Hua Wang (The Mathematics Institute of Jussieu–Paris Rive Gauche)
See talk details page for schedule and other information.
Conference dinners
Conference dinners will be held on Wednesdays:
- Summer school week: at SüdØst (Trondheimsveien 5), July 31, 18:30–
- Workshop week: at Der Peppern Gror (Fritjof Nansens plass 7), August 7, 18:30–
Practical guides
See this page for guides on travel and accommodation.
Registration
Registration is closed on June 1. We will shortly contact the participants for confirmation.