Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries
Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries
Events

GCS25 Summer School: Les Diableret (APPLICATIONS OPEN)

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June 15-20, 2025 SwissMap Research Station – Les Diablerets (CH)

More details can be found on the event webpage: GCS25 SCHOOL

APPLY HERE (deadline: April 1st, 2025)

Participation:

For further questions, please contact the organizers: Jennifer Brown, Alberto Cattaneo, Michele Del Zotto, Julia Plavnik, and Constantin Teleman

Events

KITP program on Generalized Symmetries

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March 11-May 10, 2025 KITP (Santa Barbara, CA)

We advertise here a KITP program on topics close to our collaboration organized independently by Maissam Barkeshli (U Maryland), Shu-Heng Shao (MIT), and Sakura-Schafer Nameki (Oxford U) together with Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala U) from our collaboration.

More details can be found on the event webpage: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/gensym25

Schematic schedule: Tuesdays: 1.5h review talk, Thursday 1h+1h research talks, Wednesday and Friday there will be short discussions sessions. Zoom links to follow these events and more informations can be found on the event webpage above

Conference week: April 6-10, 2025 More info and registation here: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/gensym-c25 (deadline for registration: March 9, 2025)

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Simons Lectures on Categorical Symmetries

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Global Categorical Symmetries are a powerful new tool for analyzing quantum
field theories. The first volume compiles lecture notes from the 2022 and 2023
summer schools on Global Categorical Symmetries, held at the Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics and at the Swiss Map Research Station in Les
Diableret.

Specifically, this volume collects the lectures:
* An introduction to symmetries in quantum field theory, Kantaro Ohmori
* Introduction to anomalies in quantum field theory, Clay C\’ordova
* Symmetry Categories 101, Michele Del Zotto
* Applied Cobordism Hypothesis, David Jordan
* Finite symmetry in QFT, Daniel S. Freed

These volumes are devoted to interested newcomers: we only assume (basic)
knowledge of quantum field theory (QFT) and some relevant maths. We try to give
appropriate references for non-standard materials that are not covered. Our aim
in this first volume is to illustrate some of the main questions and ideas
together with some of the methods and the techniques necessary to begin
exploring global categorical symmetries of QFTs.

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