Operator algebras and mathematical physics
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland

Septemberber 29-October 3, 2025

Monday, September 29
10:00-10:45 Kasia Rejzner Quantum reference frames and local algebras
11:00-11:45 Jun Yang The Atiyah-Schmid formula and automorphic representations
12:00-12:45 Maria Stella Adamo Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction for unitary full vertex operator algebras
14:15-15:00 Nivedita Nivedita Functorial 2d Chiral CFTs from Conformal Nets
15:15-16:00 Arnaud Brothier Moduli spaces and a tensor product for representations of the Cuntz algebra
16:15-17:00 Gandalf Lechner Quantum-mechanical localization observables and modular theory
Tuesday, September 30
9:30-10:15 Feng Xu On singular limits of relative entropies
10:30-11:15 Chris Fewster Measurement and preparation protocols for QFT on curved spacetimes
11:30-12:15 Daniela Cadamuro L4 bound for the energy density in thermal field theory
14:00-14:45 Zhengwei Liu Quantum Advantages and Classical Simulations
15:00-15:45 Yosuke Kubota Stable homotopy theory of invertible gapped quantum spin systems
16:00-17:00 Yoshiko Ogata Clay Lecture: Haag duality for 2D quantum spin systems
Wednesday, October 1
9:30-10:15 Stefan Hollands A new proof of the QNEC
10:30-11:15 Matthew Buican Generalising G-equivariantization
11:30-12:15 Corey Jones DHR bimodules and Kramers-Wannier type dualities on the lattice
Thursday, October 2
9:30-10:15 Masaki Izumi A generalized winding number formula for the Witten index of a Toeplitz operator
10:30-11:15 Mayuko Yamashita Extending equivariant Topological Modular Forms to the cusp using vertex algebras
11:30-12:15 Javier Magan A generalization of the DHR theorem to higher form symmetries
14:15-15:00 Ulrich Pennig Higher twisted K-theory of Lie Groups
15:15-16:00 Rainer Verch Probing non-equilibrium states of dynamical systems
16:15-17:00 Pieter Naaijkens Superselection theory for stacked systems
Friday, October 3
9:30-10:15 Terry Gannon Finite fields and the search for exotic subfactors and tensor categories
10:30-11:15 Nicola Pinamonti Regularized interacting quantum field theories
11:30-12:15 Sebastiano Carpi Vertex operator algebras, higher genus partition functions and Teichm&uunl;ller modular forms