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Tensor categories, quantum symmetries and mathematical physics. Click

Upcoming events

  • Categorification and Computation in Algebraic Combinatorics, hybrid, ICERM at Brown University, United States (September-December 2025). Click
  • Webs in Algebra, Geometry, Topology and Combinatorics, hybrid, ICERM at Brown University, United States (December 2025). Click
  • Category Theory, Combinatorics, and Machine Learning, hybrid, ICERM at Brown University, United States (September 2025). Click
  • Queer and Trans Mathematicians in algebra and representation theory (QTMART) 2025, hybrid, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at Universität Bonn, Germany (July 2025).
  • Geometric and Categorical Lie theory, hybrid, University of York, United Kingdom (July 2025). Click
  • Special Semester: Modern perspectives in representation theory, hybrid, Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI) at The University of Sydney, Australia (May-June 2025). Click
  • Heron Island meeting, face-to-face, The University of Sydney and SUSTech (Shenzhen), Australia (January 2025).
  • Tensor categories, quantum symmetries and mathematical physics, hybrid, The University of Melbourne, Australia (November 2024). Click

You could have met me

  • In 2024
    • Introduction to categorification, face-to-face, Beijing Institute of Technology, China (July/August 2024).
    • Diagrammatic Intuition and Deep Learning in Mathematics, hybrid, University of York, United Kingdom (July 2024). Click
    • Combinatorial representation theory and diagrammatic categorification, hybrid, University of York, United Kingdom (July 2024). Click
    • Representation theory, geometry, and categorification, hybrid, Beijing Institute of Technology, China (June 2024). Click
    • Groups and their actions: algebraic, geometric and combinatorial aspects, face-to-face, Levico Terme (Trento), Italy (June 2024). I wanted to go, but I had Visa issues :-( Click
    • Higher Structures Seminar Series, online, Feza Gursey Research Center for Physics and Mathematics, Istanbul, Turkey (May 2024). Click
    • Talk at the Sydney University Mathematics Society (SUMS), face-to-face, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (April 2024).
    • Women and Diverse Genders in Maths Society (WAMSOC) meeting, face-to-face, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (February 2024).
    • USC Combinatorics Seminar, hybrid, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (January 2024). Click
    • Symmetric Tensor Categories and Representation Theory, hybrid, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, United States (January 2024). Click
  • In 2023
    • 67th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, hybrid, University of Queensland, Australia (December 2023). Click
    • Computational Algebra and Magma, hybrid, University fo Sydney, Australia (November/December 2023). Click
    • Magma Mondays Workshop, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (October 2023). Click
    • University of Sydney Algebra Seminar, face-to-face, The University of Sydney, Australia (August 2023). Click
    • Informal Friday seminar, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (August 2023). Click
    • Hecke algebras and applications, hybrid, A.K.S.S. Foundation Schools of Spetses, Greece (July 2023). Click
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (June 2023). Click
    • Arbeitstagung 2023 on Condensed Mathematics, hybrid, MPIM Bonn, Germany (June 2023). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (June 2023). Click
    • Research visit, online, University in Galway, Ireland (June 2023). Click
    • Research visit, online, The University of New South Wales, Australia (June 2023). Click
    • Research visit, online, City, University of London, United Kingdom (May 2023). Click
    • Braids: Algebra and Geometry, hybrid, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (May 2023) Click
    • Informal Friday seminar, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (April 2023). Click
    • Categorification in representation theory, organized joint with Asilata Bapat, Andrew Mathas and Oded Yacobi, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (February 2023). Click; its YouTube channel Click
  • In 2022
    • Representation Theory, Combinatorics and Geometry, hybrid, Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) in the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (December 2022). Click
    • 66th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, hybrid, University of New South Wales, Australia (December 2022). Click
    • Tensor Categories in Sydney, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (November/December 2022). Click
    • Research visit, online, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (October 2022). Click
    • Character Theory and Categorification, hybrid, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Germany (August/September 2022). Click
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (August 2022). Click
    • Quantum groups, Categorification, Knot invariants, and Soergel bimodules (Quacks), hybrid, Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2022). Click
    • Research buffet afternoon tea, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (August 2022). Click
    • Research visit, online, Technische Universität München, Germany (July 2022). Click
    • UNSW Pure Math Seminar, hybrid, The University of New South Wales, Australia (June 2022). Click (go to seminars)
    • University of Sydney Informal Friday Seminar, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (May 2022). Click
    • Seminar Talk, online, Beijing Institute of Technology, China (April 2022). Click
    • Farewell conference for Anthony Henderson, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (April 2022). Click
    • University of Sydney Algebra Seminar, face-to-face, The University of Sydney, Australia (March 2022). Click
    • University of Sydney Informal Friday Seminar, hybrid, The University of Sydney, Australia (March 2022). Click
    • Character Varieties, E-Polynomials, And Representation Zeta Functions, online, Australian National University, Australia (February 2022). Click
    • Research visit, online, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan (February 2021). Click
  • In 2021
    • 65th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Onsite and online, University of Newcastle, Australia (December 2021). Click
    • Representation theory's hidden motives, online, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and University of Sydney, Germany and Australia (September/October 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, Aarhus University, Denmark (August 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan (August 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, The RepNet Virtual Seminar, United Kingdom (July 2021). Click
    • Braids, mutations and twists in algebra and geometry, online, Uppsala universitet, Sweden (May/June 2021). Click
    • Joint meeting of the British Mathematical Colloqium (BMC) and the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC), online, University of Glasgow, Scotland (April 2021). Click
    • Additive categories between algebra and functional analysis, online, Bishop's University and Université de Sherbrooke and University of Leeds and Universität Hamburg (March 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, University of Birmingham and University of Warwick, United Kingdom (March 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, University of Oklahoma, United States (February 2021). Click
    • Research visit, online, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (February 2021). Click
  • In 2020
    • New Trends in Representation Theory (Junior Hausdorff Trimester Program), Bonn, Germany, September till December 2020. Click (Organizer)
    • Lectures on modified traces in algebra and topology, online, Bonn-Hamburg, Germany, December 2020. Click (Coorganizer)
    • Monoidal and 2-categories in representation theory and categorification, online, Bonn, Germany, November and December 2020. Click (Organizer)
    • Lecture series on modified traces in algebra and topology, online, Bonn, Germany, October 2020. Click (Organizer)
    • Categorifications in Representation Theory, online, Leicester, United Kingdom (September 2020). Click
    • Quantum groups, Categorification, Knot invariants, and Soergel bimodules (Quacks), online, Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2020). Click
    • Tensor Categories, Quantum Groups and Related Topics, online, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (June/July 2020). Click
    • Geometric representation theory, online, Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada and Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany (June 2020). Click
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2020 (Infinite-dimensional Methods in Commutative Algebra), Postponed, Eugene (Oregon), United States (July 2020). Click
    • Thematic period: Categorification and higher order geometry, Postponed, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (July 2020).
    • Lie theory and integrable systems in symplectic and Poisson geometry, online conference (June 2020). Click
    • Research visit, online, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (April 2020). Click
    • Joint meeting of the British Mathematical Colloqium (BMC) and the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC), Postponed, University of Glasgow, Scotland (April 2020). Click
    • Categorifications: Hecke algebras, finite groups and quantum groups, Canceled, Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), France (March 2020). Click
    • Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics (ZGSM), Postponed, Zurich, Switzerland (March 2020). Click, Click
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (March 2020). Click
    • Research visit, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (March 2020). Click
    • Research visit, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France (March 2020). Click
    • Quiver varieties, character varieties and DT-invariants, Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), France (February 2020). Click
    • Geometry and representation theory, Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), France (January 2020). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Graz, Graz, Austria (January 2020). Click
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (January 2020). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (January 2020). Click
  • In 2019
    • Algebraic and Geometric Categorification, Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO), Oaxaca, Mexico (December 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (October/November 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Columbia University, New York City, United States (September 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (August 2019). Click
    • Summer School: Algebraic Structures in Quantum Field Theory, Hamburg, Germany (August 2019). Click
    • Representation Theory and Integrable Systems, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (August 2019). Algebraic Structures in Quantum Field Theory Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (August 2019). Click
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2019 (Foundations of Tropical Geometry), Eugene (Oregon), United States (July/August 2019). Click
    • Swiss Knots 2019, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (July 2019). Click
    • Representations of monoidal categories and 2-categories, The University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (July 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (June/July 2019). Click
    • SWAN2 Workshop, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany (June 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (June 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (May 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (April 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (April 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (March 2019). Click
    • Research visit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (March 2019). Click
    • Research visit, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (March 2019). Click
    • Colloquium talk, MSI Colloquium 2019, Australia (February 2019). Click
    • Workshop - categorification, Australian National University at the Kioloa Coastal Campus, Kioloa, Australia (February 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (February/March 2019). Click, Click
    • Aspects of higher representation theory: quantum groups and categorification, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) & Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium (January 2019). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (January 2019). Click
    • Categorification in quantum topology and beyond, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria (January 2019). Click
  • In 2018
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (December 2018). Click
    • Research visit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (November 2018). Click
    • Quantum Knot Invariants and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Santa Barbara, California, United States (November/December 2018). Click
    • Colloquium talk, Zürich Graduate Colloquium, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Seminar talk, ETH Zürich: Talks in mathematical physics, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland (October 2018). Click
    • Interactions of low-dimensional topology and (higher) representation theory, Zürich, Switzerland (September 2018). Click (Organizer)
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2018 (Deligne-Lusztig Theory), Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2018). Click
    • Summer School Geometric, Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Modular Representation Theory, Freiburg, Germany (July 2018). Click
    • Categorification and Higher Representation Theory, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden (July 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (June 2018). Click
    • Research related visit, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (June 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (June 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (May 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces (QGM), Aarhus, Denmark (April 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (March 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (February 2018). Click
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (February 2018). Click
    • Algebraic Structures in Topology and Geometry, Riederalp, Switzerland (January 2018). Click
  • In 2017
    • Symplectic Geometry and Representation Theory (Junior Hausdorff Trimester Program), Bonn, Germany, October till December 2017. More info (Organizer)
    • Workshop: \(A_\infty\)-structures in geometry and representation theory, Bonn, Germany (December 2017). More info
    • Workshop: Categorification, representation theory and symplectic geometry, Bonn, Germany (November/December 2017). More info (Organizer)
    • Winter school: Categorification, representation theory and symplectic geometry, Bonn, Germany (November 2017). More info (Organizer)
    • Workshop: Quantum geometric and algebraic representation theory, Bonn, Germany (October 2017). More info
    • Seminar on Representation Theory and Related Areas: 6th Workshop, Faro, Portugal (September 2017).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (August/September 2017).
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2017 (Symplectic duality (the Abelian case)), Eugene (Oregon), United States (August 2017).
    • A conference on geometric representation theory, and related topics, Glasgow, Scotland (July 2017).
    • Workshop Quantum topology and categorified representation theory, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom (June 2017). Stupid me: I am not on the conference photo!
    • Arbeitstagung 2017 on Physical Mathematics in honor of Yuri Manin's contributions to the field, Bonn, Germany (June 2017).
    • Hausdorff School Derived Noncommutative Geometry, Bonn, Germany (May/June 2017).
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (May 2017).
    • Research visit, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (April 2017).
    • Research visit, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (April 2017).
    • 2-representation theory workshop, Uppsala, Sweden (April 2017).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (February 2017).
    • Research visit, Columbia University, New York City, United States (February 2017).
  • In 2016
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (October 2016).
    • Research visit, Université de Montpelliere, Montpellier, France (October 2016).
    • \(1{}^1/{}_2\) day(s) for 2-categories and 3-manifolds, Montpellier, France (September 2016).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (September 2016).
    • Lie Theory and Representation Theory Workshop 2016, Köln, Germany (August 2016).
    • WARTHOG Workshop 2016 (Knot homologies, Hilbert schemes, and Cherednik algebras), Eugene (Oregon), United States (July 2016).
    • Young Women in Representation Theory, Bonn, Germany (June 2016).
    • Workshop: Categorification, Bonn, Germany (May 2016). More info (Organizer)
    • Hausdorff School; Derived categories: dimensions, stability conditions, and enhancements, Bonn, Germany (March/April 2016).
  • In 2015
    • Research visit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (November 2015).
    • Panorama of Mathematics - A Conference of the Hausdorff Center, Bonn, Germany (October 2015).
    • Research visit, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands (October 2015).
    • Annual meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV), Hamburg, Germany (September 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (July 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (July 2015).
    • Colloque Solstice, topic: representation theory and knot invariants, Paris, France (June 2015).
    • AMS-EMS-SPM international meeting, Oporto, Portugal (June 2015).
    • Research visit, ESI of the Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria (May 2015).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (April 2015).
    • Research visit, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden (April 2015).
    • Conference on the Interaction of Representation Theory with Geometry and Combinatorics, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, Germany (March 2015). Stupid me: I am not on the conference photo!
    • Introductory Workshop connected to the Representation theory program at the Institute Mittag-Leffler, Uppsala, Sweden (February 2015).
    • Research visit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (February 2015).
  • In 2014
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (December 2014).
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (December 2014).
    • Research visit, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (November/December 2014).
    • QGM Nielsen Retreat 2014, Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark (October 2014).
    • Oberwolfach Workshop: Topology, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach, Germany (September 2014).
    • Algebraic Lie Theory and Representation Theory, LMS-CMI Research School, Glasgow, Scotland (August 2014).
    • ICM Satellite Conference on Representation Theory and Related Topics, Daegu, South Korea (August 2014).
    • Research visit, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (July 2014).
    • Categorification and geometric representation theory, Montréal, Canada (June 2014).
    • Research visit, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (May 2014).
    • Conference: Meeting of Mathematicians from India and Denmark, Kerala School of Mathematics (KSOM), Kerala, India (March 2014).
    • Research visit, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (March/April 2014).
  • Before 2014
    • Research visit, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany (October 2013).
    • Workshop quantum Mathematics and computation, Oxford, England (End September/ Begin October 2013).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (End of September 2013).
    • Higher structures in China IV, Lanzhou, China (August 2013).
    • Summer school on category , Freiburg, Germany (August 2013).
    • Representation theory and categorification, Shanghai, China (June 2013).
    • Research visit, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal (End of May - Begin of June 2013).
    • A new look and knot invariants arising from representation theory with a view towards categorification, Bad Boll, Germany (March 2013).
    • Research visit, University Berkeley, Berkeley, United states (December 2012 - 2013).
    • Higher Structures in China III, Changchun, China (August 2012).
    • Oporto Meetings on Geometry, Topology and Physics, Oporto, Portugal (July 2012).
    • Topology and groups, Berlin, Germany (June 2012).
    • Winter braids II, Caen, France (December 2011).
    • Higher Structures in mathematics and physics, Göttingen, Germany (December 2011).
    • Quantum groups, categorification and braids, Strasbourg, France (September 2011).
    • Swiss knots - knot theory and algebra, Thun, Switzerland (May 2011).