A huge and pungent story of Oxford scientific collaboration starring botanist Chris Thorogood and mathematician Javier Chico Vazquez.
Nomura have offered themselves up for an hour to network with any DPhil students that are interested in a role with
them, so please don't hesitate to come over an have a chat with them. They are providing a "speed networking" set of 3 sessions with their eTrading, Quant Research and Desk Strat teams at Nomura, for interested mathematical PhD students.
Namikawa has shown that the functor of flat graded Poisson deformations of a conic symplectic singularity is unobstructed and pro-representable. In a subsequent work, Losev showed that the universal Poisson deformation admits, a quantization which enjoys a rather remarkable universal property. In a recent work, we have repackaged the latter theorem as an expression of the representability of a new functor: the functor of quantizations. I will describe how this theorem leads to an easy proof of the existence of a universal equivariant quantizations, and outline a work in progress in which we describe a presentation of a rather complicated quantum Hamiltonian reduction: the finite W-algebra associated to a nilpotent element in a classical Lie algebra. The latter result hinges on new presentations of twisted Yangians.
