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Welcome back to Oxford! 

We hope you had a lovely break, and are looking forward to everything that Hilary Term will bring.

Read on for details on becoming a Nightline volunteer, the first Public Lecture of 2026 and several graduate study opportunities!

Detecting Toxic Flow
Cartea, Á Duran Martin, G Sanchez Betancourt, L Quantitative Finance
Singularities of Fitzpatrick and convex functions
Kramkov, D Sirbu, M Journal of Convex Analysis volume 31 issue 3 827-846 (01 Jul 2024)
Equivariant localization for D=5 gauged supergravity
Benetti Genolini, P Gauntlett, J Jiao, Y Park, J Sparks, J Journal of High Energy Physics
Localizing punctures in M-theory
Couzens, C Lüscher, A Sparks, J Journal of High Energy Physics
Mon, 09 Mar 2026
15:30
L5

TBA

Sam Hughes
(Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Mon, 02 Mar 2026
15:30
L5

Full enveloping vertex algebra from factorisation

Benoit Vicedo
(University of York)
Abstract

Vertex operator algebras provide a succinct mathematical description of the chiral sector of two-dimensional conformal field theories. Various extensions of the framework of vertex operator algebras have been proposed in the literature which are capable of describing full two-dimensional conformal field theories, including both chiral and anti-chiral sectors. I will explain how the notion of a full vertex operator algebra can be elegantly described using the modern language of factorisation algebras developed by Costello and Gwilliam. This talk will be mainly based on [arXiv:2501.08412].

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