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
Noninvertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes
Apruzzi, F Bah, I Bonetti, F Schäfer-Nameki, S Physical Review Letters volume 130 issue 12 (23 Mar 2023) Non-invertible higher-categorical symmetries
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schäfer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A SciPost Physics volume 14 issue 1 (26 Jan 2023) Generalized Toric Polygons, T-branes, and 5d SCFTs
Bourget, A Collinucci, A Schafer-Nameki, S (12 Jan 2023) http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05239v1 Generalized Symmetries and Anomalies of 3d N=4 SCFTs
Bhardwaj, L Bullimore, M Ferrari, A Schafer-Nameki, S (05 Jan 2023) http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02249v1 Non-Invertible Symmetry Webs
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Schafer-Nameki, S Tiwari, A (13 Dec 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06842v1 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