Quantum symmetries: Tensor categories, Topological quantum field theories, Vertex algebras

This is a month-long program covering applications of category theory to various types of quantum field theory.  There will be seven minicourses of various levels, ranging from graduate students to established researchers, and a one-week conference featuring talks from international leaders in these fields.  The program is as follows:

• Week 1
  Dmitri Nikshych (University Of New Hampshire): Braided fusion categories (5x1h).
  Daniele Valeri (Sapienza Università di Roma): W-algebras and Lax operators (4×1.5h).
• Week 2
  Anna Beliakova (University of Zurich): Algebraization of low-dimensional topology (4x1h).
  Emily Peters (Loyola University Chicago): Diagrammatics in categories (5x1h).
  Jethro van Ekeren (Universidade Federal Fluminense): Affine W-algebras (4×1.5h).
• Week 3
  Conference: confirmed speakers include Tomoyuki Arakawa, Christian Blanchet, Emily Cliff, Boris Feigin, Jürgen Fuchs, Azat Gainutdinov, Cesar Galindo, Nathan Geer, Sergei Gukov, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Andrew Linshaw,
  Susan Montgomery, Sonia Natale, Cris Negron, Eric Rowell, Christoph Schweigert, Noah Snyder, Helen Wong.
• Week 4
  Simon Lentner (University Hamburg): Modular tensor categories, quantum groups and vertex algebras (4×1.5h).
  Du Pei (Harvard University): VOAs from higher-dimensional QFTs (4×1.5h).