Tue, 09 Jun 2026
14:00
14:00
L6
Black Box Recorder made three albums in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then went off 'do other things'. Then social media got interested when Billie Eilish posted videos of herself listening to their first song, 'Child Psychology'. So Black Box have decided to reform. Smart move.
This song captures their deadbeat feel. Their collection of 'B' sides was called 'the Worst of Black Box Recorder'. You get the picture.
SANOS Smooth Arbitrage-free Non-parametric Option Surfaces (presentation)
Buehler, H
Horvath, B
Kratsios, A
Limmer, Y
Saqur, R
(2026)
Thu, 26 Mar 2026
11:00 -
13:00
L3
Mathematics behind perturbative quantisation of gauge theories on curved spacetimes
Kasia Rejzner
(University of York)
Abstract
In this talk I will briefly introduce the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory (pAQFT), which is a mathematically rigorous formulation of perturbative QFT that works on a large class of Lorentzian manifolds (globally hyperbolic ones). Then I will focus on the problem of quantisation of gauge theories, which is performed using the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) framework. I will also discuss the connection to the factorization algebras framework of Costello and Gwilliam.
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