[Alta-Logic] Fwd: Connection Details: Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar

[Kristine Bauer]

Hello all,

The talk advertised in the poster below may be of interest to some folks on this list.

Kristine



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Emergent Research:
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar

This is a reminder that Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar<https://math.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9cc3beec9fa57d7299ac161c&id=807af00a20&e=5a45c15332>, takes place on, Wednesday, February 24 at 9:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Mountain / 11:30 AM Central. The poster for this session can be found here<https://math.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9cc3beec9fa57d7299ac161c&id=4ca4a38930&e=5a45c15332>. Please find the connection details below.

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Andrew Schopieray, University of Alberta
Fusion rings and their categorifications

Fusion rings are a special class of associative unital rings with nonnegative integer structure constants and a notion of duality. For example, the group ring of a finite group is a fusion ring. We study fusion rings mainly because they arise as Grothendieck rings of categories associated to Hopf algebras, semisimple Lie algebras, vertex operator algebras, etc. In turn, these categories have application to topological quantum field theory, invariants of knots and links, and quantum computation, to name a few. In this talk we will discuss the brief history of the classification of categorifiable fusion rings and how number-theoretic properties of fusion rings dictate the existence of, or properties of, their categorifications.

Speaker Biography: Andrew Schopieray is a PIMS PDF (2020) working with Terry Gannon at the University of Alberta. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (Eugene, United States) in 2017 under the supervision of Victor Ostrik. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, United States). His research is in the study of tensor categories and draws inspiration from representation theory, category theory, number theory, and mathematical physics.

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Seminar Schedule

Date    PDF     Institution
March 17        Peter Kristel   Manitoba
April 7 Sajad Fathi Hafshejani  Lethbridge
April 28        Eric Jones      SFU
May 19  Chandra Rajulapati      Saskatchewan
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