Prof. Sakura Schafer-Nameki
PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Mathematical Physics (RSIV)
Senior Research Fellow, Wadham College
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications
Research Grants:
- ERC Advanced Grant (starting 9/2023, as UKRI ERC Guarantee Grant)
- EPSRC Open Fellowship (starting 1/2023)
- ERC Consolidator Grant Team Webpage (2016-2021)
- Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics
Recent Conference Organization:
- Generalized Global Symmetry, Quantum Field Theory and Geometry, 9/2022
- Higher Symmetry and Quantum Field Theory
- Symmetry Seminar Series
- QFT and Geometry Seminar Series
- QFT and Geometry Summer School 2020
- Geometry and Strings 2019
Recent Plenary Talks, Online Seminars:
- Strings 2021 Plenary Talk
- String Pheno 2021 Plenary Talk
- Harvard CMSA Seminar 2021
- Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics (WHCGP), 2020
- Italian Strings Web Seminar 2020
Teaching
Strings Theory II (MMathPhys)
RG (MMathPhys 2022)
Recent publications
ICTP lectures on (non-)invertible generalized symmetries
Schäfer-Nameki, S Physics Reports volume 1063 1-55 (01 Apr 2024) MTC$[M_3, G]$: 3d Topological Order Labeled by Seifert Manifolds
Bonetti, F Schafer-Nameki, S Wu, J (06 Mar 2024) http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03973v1 Hasse Diagrams for Gapless SPT and SSB Phases with Non-Invertible
Symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S Warman, A (01 Mar 2024) http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00905v1 Symmetries
The Club Sandwich: Gapless Phases and Phase Transitions with Non-Invertible Symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (28 Dec 2023) Non-invertible symmetry webs
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A SciPost Physics volume 15 issue 4 160- (13 Oct 2023) Gapped Phases with Non-Invertible Symmetries: (1+1)d
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (05 Oct 2023) Categorical Landau Paradigm for Gapped Phases
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (05 Oct 2023) Unifying constructions of non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A SciPost Physics volume 15 issue 3 122- (28 Sep 2023) Research interests
Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory.
Connections between Geometric Structures and Quantum Field Theories and String theory.