La Jolla Meeting

January 12-16, 2026 @ La Jolla Shores

Organizers: Ken Intriligator and Constantin Teleman

Informal workshop

MATERIALS

Michele Del Zotto : From Multipartite Entanglement to TQFTs – slides

Dan Freed : Introduction to Kubota 2503.12618 (Part 1) – slides

Andrea Grigoletto: Higher spin-statistics – slides

Anton Kapustin : Introduction to Kubota 2503.12618 (Part 2)

Alexei Kitaev : an isomorphism theorem for topological quantum states – slides

Vasily Krylov: Coulomb branches for 3D N=4 quiver gauge theories and shifted Yangians: geometry and representation theory – slides

Sunghyuk Park: Skein traces from curve counting

Iordanis Romaidis: Finiteness properties in skein theory

Zhengdi Sun: Constructing novel phases of non-invertible symmetries from discrete gauging

Constantin Teleman: More about Coulomb branches – slides

Ryan Thorngren : Anomalies on the Lattice, Homotopy of Quantum Cellular Automata, and a Spectrum of Invertible States

Jackson Van Dyke: Some aspects of continuous gauge theory

Bowen Yang: Quantum codes and quadratic forms – slides

PARTICIPANTS

Daniel T. Brennan (Birmingham)

Alberto Cattaneo (Zurich U)

Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala CGP)

Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA)

Dan Freed (Harvard CMSA)

Andrea Grigoletto (Uppsala CGP)

Mike Hopkins (Harvard)

Ken Intriligator (UCSD)

Anton Kapustin (CalTech)

Alexei Kitaev (CalTech)

Vasily Krylov (Harvard)

Jordanis Romaidis (Edinburgh)

Sunghyuk Park (Harvard)

Zhengdi Sun (UCLA)

Constantin Teleman (Berkeley)

Ryan Thorngren (UCLA)

Bowen Yang (Harvard CMSA)

Jackson Van Dyke (TMU Munich)