Schedule for: 23w5073 - Women in Mathematical Physics II

Beginning on Sunday, August 13 and ending Friday August 18, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, August 13
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Monday, August 14
01:30 - 03:00 Sylvie Paycha: Online kick-off talk
Title: "Mathematical reflections on locality". Abstract: "Starting from the principle of locality in quantum field theory, which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings, I shall first briefly review some features of the notion of locality arising in physics and mathematics. These are then encoded in locality relations, given by symmetric binary relations whose graph consists of pairs of "mutually independent elements". Locality morphisms, namely maps that factorise on products of such pairs of elements, play a key role in the context of renormalisation in multiple variables. They include "locality evaluators", which are used to consistently evaluate meromorphic germs in several variables at their poles. If time allows, I will report on recent joint work with Li Guo and Bin Zhang which gives a classification of locality evaluators on certain classes of algebras of meromorphic germs. It uses previous joint work with these two authors and Pierre Clavier." Title: "The short story of a growing touring exhibition". Abstract: "The story begins more than 10 years ago, when I was asked to deliver a talk on women in mathematics in Konstanz and decided to present 10 women of mathematics I had met around the world, thereby adopting a subjective point of view on the world of mathematics. After that, subjectivity became an essential feature of our touring exhibition, with portraits of women of mathematics made by the photographer Noel Matoff and interviews I carried out with the portrayed women."
(Online)
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:01 - 10:30 Nina Holden: In-Person Kick-Off Talk (Online)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:40 Ida Zadeh: Taormina-Wendland project group talk
Two talks with titles "Mathieu Moonshine and $T^4/Z_3$ sigma models" (Ida Zadeh)
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
11:40 - 12:00 Kasia Budzik: Symmetries of K3 surfaces
"Symmetries of K3 surfaces" (Kasia Budzik).
(TCPL 201)
13:00 - 15:00 Research in groups
Several locations (online, hybrid and in-person)
(Other (See Description))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Harini Desiraju: Aghaei-Garcia Failde-Peltola project group talk: Title: Conformal field theory, integrability, and probability: the story so far
In this talk I will present an outline of the key developments in the intersections of the aforementioned areas and discuss some open problems.
(Online)
16:30 - 17:30 Research in groups
Several locations (in person, hybrid and online)
(Other (See Description))
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, August 15
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Florencia Orosz Hunziker: Barron-Orosz Hunziker-Yamskulna project group talk
Two talks with titles "Graded dimensions, and pseudotraces" (Florencia Orosz Hunziker)
(TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Veronika Pedic Tomic: Are bosnic ghosts rational beings?
"On rationality of $\mathbb{C}$-graded vertex algebras and applications to Weyl vertex algebras" (Veronika Pedic Tomic)
(Online)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:40 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Melanie Graf: Cederbaum-Graf-Harris project group talk
Title: "Static Lorentzian length spaces"
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Research in groups
Several locations (in person, hybrid and online)
(Other (See Description))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:30 Research in groups
Several locations (in person, hybrid and online)
(Other (See Description))
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, August 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:30 Karina Batistelli: Imposter syndrome workshop
Workshop by Karina Batistelli and Julia Plavnik
(Online)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Research in groups
Several locations (in person, hybrid and online)
(Other (See Description))
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, August 17
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:20 Cristina Caraci: Introducing the Association of Women in Mathematical Physics
TBA
(Online)
09:20 - 10:30 Constanza Rojas Molina: Distinghished talk
Title: "Finding your Ikigai in Academia". Abstract: "The Japanese concept of Ikigai refers to a driving force giving purpose or meaning to your life. Applied to Academia, your Ikigai is the sweet spot where your work interests, your talents and your principles meet to make the best version of your professional self in balance with your private self. Navigating Academia can be hard, and your goals and principles can change under the system's pressure. Have you ever asked yourself if you fit, if you can find a place for yourself in academia? In this talk we will discuss what we can do to make a place for ourselves that respects our identity and our principles and I will share my personal experience building that place, as a researcher, teacher, science communicator, illustrator, and a person with family life too. Spoiler alert: it is a constant work in progress!"
(Online)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Research in groups
Several locations (online, hybrid and in person)
(Other (See Description))
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Research in groups
Several locations (online, hybrid and in person)
(Other (See Description))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:00 Research in groups
Several locations (online, hybrid and in person)
(Other (See Description))
17:00 - 18:00 Ana Kontrec: Plavnik-Ros Camacho project group talk
Joint with Adriana Mejia Castaño. TBA
(Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, August 18
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Ana Kontrec: Plavnik-Ros Camacho project group talk
Joint with Julia Plavnik
(TCPL 201)
09:30 - 11:30 Research and mentoring mini-meetings (Online)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
11:30 - 12:00 Elham Izadi: Grassi-Izadi-Kamenova project group talk
TBA
(TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)
12:00 - 12:15 Wrap-up and farewell (Online)