Talks

Conferences (Talk) Conferences (Short Introductory Talk) Workshops/ Readings Seminars (Invited to talk about my research) Topology Advanced Class, Oxford OWSM, Oxford Misc.

Towards Models for 2-Hilb and 3-Hilb as targets for functorial field theories, University of Hertfordshire, at the Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Seminar, Slides.
Pre-factorisation Algebras from free field theories Construction of pre-factorisation algebra associated to a free classical field theory, and quantisation of this to the pre-factorisation algebra for the associated free quantum field theory), Topology Advanced Class on Factorisation Algebras and Factorisation Homology, MT2024, Oxford Notes
Functoriality of Quantum Dimension, Day 4- Scottish Talbot On Algebra and Topology on Higher tensor categories and extensions, Glenmore Notes based on Minimal nondegenerate extensions
Naturatily of Chern-Weil forms and Homotopy Theory, Topology Advanced Class TT2024 on Smooth Differential Cohomology, Oxford Notes
W*-Categories, Bicommutant Categories and Solitons from Conformal Nets, Geometry, Algebra, Mathematical Physics and Tolopogy Seminar, Cardiff University Plan
Bicommutant Categories-Definition. March 2024, Workshop on New Directions in Conformal Field Theory, Hamburg
Bicommutant Categories from Conformal Nets, January 2024, CFT 3 Ways, SwissMAP Research Station, Les Diablerets Outline
Towards construction of fully extended Chiral Conformal Field Theories from Conformal Nets. January 2024, AQFTUK, University of Nottingham
Poincaré Duality Revisited in Abstact Six-functor Formalism. October 2023, Topology Advanced Class on Six- Functor Formalism (Scholze), Mathematics Institute, Oxford. Notes
Overview of Von Neumann algebras, Conformal Nets and their relation to unitary VOAs. November 2023, OWSM (Oxford Symmetry Meeting) Notes
An (∞, d)-category of QFTs and topological interfaces. August 2023, Categorical Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory (School and Workshop), SwissMAP Research Station in Les Diablerets.
Conformal Nets, Functorial CFTs and Defects. June 2023, Hausdorff School on TQFTs and their connections to representation theory and mathematical physics, Hausdorff Centre for Mathematics.
Spans 2. May 2023, Topology Advanced Class on the AKSZ construction of TQFTs, Oxford.
Showed that each object in (∞, n)-categories of n-fold spans is fully dualisable and sketched the case of Lagrangian correspondences of shifted symplectic derived stacks. Based on Iterated spans and classical topological field theories.
Introduction to (∞, n)-categories and cobordism; overview of topological defects in field theories. March 2023, Oxford Symmetry Meeting (OWSM). Notes
Introduction to the construction of extended Segal Chiral CFT from Conformal Nets. February 2023, Oxford. Slides
Presented for Transfer of Status to examiners in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.
Hopf algebra objects and related constructions in tensor categories, Topology Advanced Class on Modular Categories and TQFTs beyond semisimplicity, Oxford, MT22, Based on Extended TQFTs From Non-Semisimple Modular Categories
FFRS construction of RCFT correlators from TQFT - Construction. May 2022, Topology Advanced Class on FFRS construction of RCFT correlators from TQFT. Slides, based on TFT construction of RCFT correlators I: Partition functions
Backprop is a functor. December 2021, Ard Louis Research Group, Oxford
Based on Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning
Introduction to categories for physicists. December 2021, Ard Louis Research Group, Oxford
Two talks introducing categories and symmetric monoidal categories to physicists.
Super-symmetric QFT and Integral Modular Functions. December 2020, Research Group Jürgen Jost, Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Slides
This talk was also given in a sightly different, less mathematical form for physicists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as part of the course Introduction to Conformal Field Theory. Slides and notes for the version aimed at physicists. Based on Supersymmetric field theories and generalized cohomology
CFT and Elliptic Cohomology. October 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Slides
Given as part of the course Introduction to Conformal Field Theory.
Entanglement in Topological Quantum Field Theories and Complexity. June 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Notes
Given as part of the course Quantum Chaos.
Statistical Physics Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience: Critical Brain. February 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Slides. Notes
Given as part of the course Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Gauge Theory and Knots. December 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Slides . Detailed Notes
Topology and Materials Science. August 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Slides
Popular science talk given in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.