The aim is to bring together renowned local and international experts on modern aspects of topological quantum field theory for talks and discussions. The range of covered topics will include
1) Classification of TQFTs
2) Modular Tensor Categories
3) Subfactors
4) Gauge Theory aspects
5) Representation theory of Quantum Algebras
6) Vertex Operator Algebras
7) Quantum invariants of knots and manifolds
8) Topological twisting of supersymmetric field theories
9) Topological Quantum Computation
10) Infinite TQFT
The goal will be to give participants a global view on current developments in topological quantum field theory and encourage interactions and connections.
Confirmed Speakers:
J. BROWN, University of Edinburgh, UK
T. DIMOFTE, University of Edinburgh, UK
J. FUCHS, Karlstad University, Sweden
S. GAROUFALIDIS, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany
J. GU, Southeast University, China
B. GUI, Tsinghua University, China
S. GUKOV, California Institute of Technology, USA
A. KAPUSTIN, California Institute of Technology, USA
R. KASHAEV, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Y. KAWAHIGASHI, University of Tokyo, Japan
T. LE, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Z. LIU, Tsinghua University, China
A. LOSEV, SIMIS, China
S. MING, BIMSA, China
S. PARK, Harvard University, USA
I. RUNKEL, University of Hamburg, Germany
C. SCHWEIGERT, University of Hamburg, Germany
Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University), Zhengwei Liu (Tsinghua University & BIMSA), Nikolai Reshetikhin (Tsinghua University & UC Berkeley), ICTP Scientific Contact: Pavel Putrov (ICTP)