QuaSy-Con II  

    24 - 26 May, 2024
    University of Notre Dame  

Photo by Fractal Hassan on Unsplash                                                        

Welcome to QuaSy-Con II!

Quantum Symmetries Conferences in the U.S. Midwest (founded by Chelsea Walton)

‣ General Info

> We are very happy to bring to you the continuation of QuaSy-Con! Thanks to Chelsea Walton, we had a wonderful time at QuaSy-Con I. So why not do it again!

> Organizers:
Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame
Emily Peters, Loyola University
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University
Gaywalee Yamskulna, Illinois State University

> A reminder of the fun we had last time: QuaSy-Con I photo

‣ List of participants

*Elise Askelsen, University of Iowa
  Cesiley Barnes, Illinois State University
  Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame
  Chase Bender, University of Notre Dame
*Nicolas Bridges, Purdue University
*Shawn Cui, Purdue University
  Cory Gillette, University of Notre Dame
*Alexei Davydov, Ohio University
*Jonas Hartwig, Iowa State University
  Samuel Heard, University of Notre Dame
*Vijay Higgins, Michigan State University
*Gerald Hoehn, Kansas State University
  Peter Huston, Vanderbilt University
*Pradyut Karmakar, Ohio University
  Steven Karp, University of Notre Dame
*Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University
  Alexander Keene, Illinois State University
*Ryan Kinser, University of Iowa
*Zhongzhu Lin, Kansas State University
  Pavel Mnev, University of Notre Dame
  Ehiareshan James Obeahon, University of Delaware
*Florencia Orosz Hunziker, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Emily Peters, Loyola University
*Christopher Raymond, Université Laval
  Lorenzo Riva, University of Notre Dame
*Sean Sanford, The Ohio State University
  Christopher Schommer-Pries, University of Notre Dame
  Shashank Pratap Singh, University of Iowa
  Christian Soltermann, Illinois State University
*Jacob Van Grinsven, University of Iowa
*Padmini Veerapen, Tennessee Tech University
*Daniel Wallick, The Ohio State University
  Matthew Weaver, University of Notre Dame
  Gaywalee Yamskulna, Illinois State University

*Indicates speaker

‣ Titles and Abstracts

> Titles and Abstracts.

‣ Registration

> If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please contact one of the organizers.

‣ Hotel Information

> A list of local hotels is available here. We have blocks of rooms reserved at a discount rate at the first two hotels listed held through May 10th.

‣ Schedule

> Arrival is afternoon Friday, May 24th with the first talk at 1:30pm and departure is the afternoon of Sunday, May 26th with the last scheduled talk ending at 3:35pm and Coffee/Tea afterward.

Schedule of Talks/Activities


Date Time Speaker/Activity
Friday   5/24 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Hurley Math Lounge
Arrival and Registration
Session Chair:
K. Barron
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Ryan Kinser: Hopf actions an algebras in tensor categories
2:40pm - 3:40pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Zongzhu Lin: Differential graded vertex algebras
3:40pm - 4:15pm
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea and Registration
4:20pm - 4:50pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Padmini Veerapen: Manin's universal quantum groups under 2-cocycle twists
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Jacob Van Grinsven: Comodule algebras over H_8
Saturday   5/25 9:00am - 9:30am
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea and Registration
Session Chair:
G. Yamskulna
9:30am - 10:00am
Hayes-Healy 127
Florencia Orosz Hunziker: Graded traces, graded pseudo-traces and modularity
10:05am - 10:35am
Hayes-Healy 127
Christopher Raymond: Inverting Hamiltonian reduction: an introduction.
10:35am - 11:15am
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea
11:15am - 11:45am
Hayes-Healy 127
Gerald Hoehn: Classification of self-dual vertex operator superalgebras of central charge at most 24
11:50am - 12:20pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Elise Askelsen: Hopf actions of Hopf-Ore extensions of group algebras on path algebras
12:20pm - 2:30pm
Break for lunch
Session Chair:
R. Kinser
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Alexei Davydov: Deformation cohomology of Schur-Weyl categories
3:05pm - 3:35pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Sean Sanford: Invertible fusion categories
3:35pm - 4:15pm
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea
4:15pm - 4:30pm
127 Hayes-Healy
Nicolas Bridges: A Generalization of two invariants fo three-manifolds from involutary Hopf algebras
4:35pm - 4:50pm
127 Hayes-Healy
Pradyut Karmakar: Anomalies on von Neumann algebras
4:50pm - 5:30pm
127 Hayes-Healy
Micro talks: Corey Gillette, Cesiley Barnes, and Chase Bender,
followed by Conference Photo
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Hurley Globe
Conference Dinner
Sunday   5/26 9:00am - 9:45am
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea
Session Chair:
E. Peters
9:30am - 10:00am
Hayes-Healy 127
Vijay Higgins: Central elements in the SL(d) skein algebra
10:05am - 10:35am
Hayes-Healy 127
Shawn Cui: Trisection invariants of 4-manifolds from Hopf algebras
10:35am - 11:15am
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea
11:15am - 11:45pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Jonas Hartwig: Symplectic differential reduction algebras
11:50am - 12:30pm
Hayes-Healy 127
All participants round of "Who are you?"
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Break for lunch
Session Chair:
F. Orosz Hunziker
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Ralph Kaufmann: Twisting geometrically, algebraically and categorically
3:05pm - 3:35pm
Hayes-Healy 127
Daniel Wallick: Boundary algebras and local topological order
3:35pm - 4:30pm
Math Lounge
Coffee/Tea/Hangout/Discuss QuaSy-Con III, IV, V, .....
End Say your good-byes or stick around and hang out for a dinner with friends.

‣ Support

> We are gratefully to the generous support of the University of Notre Dame Office of Research, College of Science, and Department of Mathematics. This conference is also supported in part by K. Barron's Simons Travel Grant.

Last updated May 29, 2024.