Shanks Workshop: Von Neumann Entropy and Quantum Symmetries
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.

March 28-29, 2026

Saturday, March 28
9:00-9:50 Feng Xu On singular limits of relative entropies
10:30-11:20 Nima Lashkari Non-invertible symmetries as non-unitarily correctible error correction
11:30-12:20 Corey Jones Fusion category symmetries on the lattice
14:10-15:00 Theo Johnson-Freyd McNamara-Wang reconstruction and rigid monoidality in categories of trace-class operators
15:20-16:10 Sahand Seifnashri Operator-Algebraic Definition of Non-Invertible Symmetries in Quantum Lattice Systems
17:00-17:50 Terry Gannon An autistic approach to vertex algebras
Sunday, March 29
9:10-10:00 Colleen Delaney From topological entanglement entropy to modular data and beyond
10:40-11:30 Oem Trivedi Hermiticty as a Symmetry, Quasilocal Probability and Gravity
12:00-12:50 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Subfactors, tensor categories and tensor networks