Prof. Sakura Schafer-Nameki
PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Mathematical Physics
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 (from 9/2023, as UKRI ERC Guarantee Grant)
- EPSRC Open Fellowship (from 1/2023)
- ERC Consolidator Grant Team Webpage (2016-2021)
- Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics (until 6/2024)
Recent Conference Organization:
- KITP Program Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity, March-May 2025
- Symmetries 2024 (Oxford), August 2024
- 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 2024 Plenary Talk: Overview talk on Generalized Symmetries
- String-Math 2024 Plenary Talk
- 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 until 2022)
RG (MMathPhys 2022)
Recent publications
(2+1)d lattice models and tensor networks for gapped phases with categorical symmetry
Inamura, K Huang, S Tiwari, A Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 20 issue 2 (13 Feb 2026) Categorical Symmetries in Spin Models with Atom Arrays
Warman, A Yang, F Tiwari, A Pichler, H Schäfer-Nameki, S Physical Review Letters volume 135 issue 20 206503 (13 Nov 2025) Hasse diagrams for gapless SPT and SSB phases with non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S Warman, A SciPost Physics volume 19 issue 4 (28 Oct 2025) Generalized charges, part II: Non-invertible symmetries and the symmetry TFT
Bhardwaj, L Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 19 issue 4 (15 Oct 2025) Boundary SymTFT
Bhardwaj, L Copetti, C Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 19 issue 2 061 (28 Aug 2025) Gapped phases in (2+1)d with non-invertible symmetries: Part I
Bhardwaj, L Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Warman, A Wu, J SciPost Physics volume 19 issue 2 056 (26 Aug 2025) Fusion 3-Categories for Duality Defects
Bhardwaj, L Décoppet, T Schäfer-Nameki, S Yu, M Communications in Mathematical Physics volume 406 issue 9 (01 Aug 2025) Boundary SymTFT
Bhardwaj, L Copetti, C Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S (15 May 2025) Research interests
Symmetries 2024 Conference
https://sites.google.com/view/symmetries2024/home
Generalized and Categorical Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory.
Topological Phases of Matter and applications to condensed matter theory.
Applications of Generalized Symmetries to Quantum Information.
Connections between Geometric Structures and Quantum Field Theories and String Theory.