In and around Topological Physics
July 16-20, 2019, Beijing, China

Tuesday, July 16
9:30-10:30 Xiao-Gang Wen Fusion 2-category and a classification of 3+1D topological orders
11:00-12:00 Eric Rowell Braid, motion and mapping class group representations from topological phases of matter
14:30-15:30 Paul Fendley Statistical mechanics and fusion categories
16:00-17:00 Mikio Furuta Finite dimensional approximations in 3 and 4 dimensional gauge theories
Wednesday, July 17
9:30-10:30 Zhenghan Wang Beyond anyons: from fractons to black holes
11:00-12:00 Yi Liu On virtual homological eigenvalues of surface automorphisms
14:30-15:30 Guoliang Yu Recent progress on the Novikov conjecture
16:00-17:00 Shawn Cui Invariants of 4-manifolds from Hopf algebras
Friday, July 19
9:30-10:30 Hubert Saleur Logarithmic conformal field theories and associative algebras
11:00-12:00 Xie Chen Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
14:30-15:30 Yasu Kawahigashi Matrix product operator algebras, anyons and subfactors
16:00-17:00 Yongshi Wu Exactly solvable discrete Hamiltonian nodels for 2d topological phases on open surfaces and correspondence betwen bulk entanglement and boundary excitation distribution
Saturday, July 20
9:30-10:30 Weiping Zhang Mod two index revisited
11:00-12:00 Tian Yang Recent progress on the volume conjecture for the Turaev-Viro invariants
14:00-15:00 Meng Cheng Bulk-boundary correspondence for symmetric conformal field theories in (1+1)d
15:00-16:00 Gang Tian Gauged linear sigma-model in geometric phase