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
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:
- 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
Formal Theory at ICHEP 2024
Schafer-Nameki, S (30 Dec 2024) http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21007v1 Categorical Symmetries in Spin Models with Atom Arrays
Warman, A Yang, F Tiwari, A Pichler, H Schafer-Nameki, S (19 Dec 2024) Non-Invertible Symmetries in 6d from Green-Schwarz Automorphisms
Apruzzi, F Schafer-Nameki, S Warman, A (14 Nov 2024) A Gapless Phase with Haagerup Symmetry
Bottini, L Schafer-Nameki, S (24 Oct 2024) $G_2$-manifolds from 4d N=1 theories, part I: Domain walls
Braun, A Sabag, E Sacchi, M Schäfer-Nameki, S SciPost Physics volume 17 issue 4 102 (03 Oct 2024) Categorical Landau Paradigm for Gapped Phases.
Bhardwaj, L Bottini, L Pajer, D Schäfer-Nameki, S Physical review letters volume 133 issue 16 161601 (Oct 2024) Boundary SymTFT
Bhardwaj, L Copetti, C Pajer, D Schafer-Nameki, S (03 Sep 2024) Fusion 3-Categories for Duality Defects
Bhardwaj, L Décoppet, T Schafer-Nameki, S Yu, M (23 Aug 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.