[geometry-ml:03820] MS seminar at Kavli IPMU -- David Evans (Cardiff U) -- Oct 1, 2019

[Todor Milanov]

Dear all,

I would like to announce the following Mathematics and String theory seminar at Kavli IPMU: 
 
Speaker: David Evans (Cardiff U)
Place:	Seminar Room A
Date:	Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45

Title:	Reconstruction and the search for the exotic in Conformal Field Theory

Abstract: Groups act as symmetries of physical systems and on their mathematical models - such as actions on algebras of operators on Hilbert spaces. Symmetries beyond those arising from groups or their deformations as quantum groups, loop groups are feasible but hard to locate and realise. The accepted position was that the Haagerup system was exotic and surely could not be constructed from group like symmetries. We discuss work with Terry Gannon that this should be considered as misconception and the more general issue of reconstructing conformal field theories from modular tensor categories.

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Todor Eliseev Milanov
Associate Professor 
Kavli IPMU,  Japan

todor.milanov ＠ ipmu.jp