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
Recent publications
A Panorama Of Physical Mathematics c. 2022
Bah, I Freed, D Moore, G Nekrasov, N Razamat, S Schafer-Nameki, S (08 Nov 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04467v2 Relative defects in relative theories: Trapped higher-form symmetries and irregular punctures in class S
Bhardwaj, L Giacomelli, S Hübner, M Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 13 issue 4 (26 Oct 2022) Symmetry TFTs for 3d QFTs from M-theory
Beest, M Gould, D Schafer-Nameki, S Wang, Y (07 Oct 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03703v1 Universal non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Schafer-Nameki, S Wu, J Fortschritte der Physik (05 Oct 2022) Non-Invertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes
Apruzzi, F Bah, I Bonetti, F Schafer-Nameki, S (15 Aug 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07373v1 Research interests
Generalized Symmetries.
Connections between Geometric Structures and Quantum Field Theories and String theory.
Teaching
Strings Theory II (MMathPhys)
RG (MMathPhys)
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