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
The club sandwich: Gapless phases and phase transitions with non-invertible symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 18 issue 5 156 (14 May 2025) Construction of a Gapless Phase with Haagerup Symmetry.
Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Physical review letters volume 134 issue 19 191602 (13 May 2025) 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) The Club Sandwich: Gapless Phases and Phase Transitions with Non-Invertible Symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (14 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 Schafer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A Physical Review B volume 111 issue 5 (21 Feb 2025) 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.