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Sakura Schafer-Nemki

Prof. Sakura Schafer-Nameki

PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of Mathematical Physics 

Senior Research Fellow, Wadham College

+44 1865 615107
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ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-0407
Research groups
  • Mathematical Physics
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications

Papers on inSPIRE

Google Scholar
 

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
SymTFT for (3+1)d gapless SPTs and obstructions to confinement
Antinucci, A Copetti, C Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 18 issue 3 114 (31 Mar 2025)
Gapless Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Gai, Y Huang, S Inamura, K Schafer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Warman, A (16 Mar 2025)
Generalized toric polygons, T-branes, and 5d SCFTs
Bourget, A Collinucci, A Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 18 issue 3 079 (04 Mar 2025)
Gapped Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries: Part II
Bhardwaj, L Schafer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Warman, A (27 Feb 2025)
Illustrating the categorical Landau paradigm in lattice models
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Physical Review B volume 111 issue 5 054432 (21 Feb 2025)
Gapped phases with non-invertible symmetries: (1+1)d
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (24 Jan 2025)
Gapped phases with non-invertible symmetries: (1+1)d
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 18 issue 1 032 (24 Jan 2025)
Formal Theory at ICHEP 2024
Schafer-Nameki, S (30 Dec 2024)
Research interests

Symmetries 2024 Conference 

https://sites.google.com/view/symmetries2024/home

 

 

Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory. Topological Phases of Matter. 

Connections between Geometric Structures and Quantum Field Theories and String Theory.

 

 

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