Graduate Student Seminar | Hank Chen, 2d bulk-boundary integrability from categorification

Candidate

Hank Chen | University of Waterloo

Title

2d bulk-boundary integrability from categorification

Abstract

In this pedagogical talk, I will introduce the classical theory of integrability and Lie bialgebras, as well as motivate the procedure of “categorification” as a way to model higher-dimensional physical observables. This will serve as an introduction to understand my recent work arXiv:2307.0383 with my PhD supervisor. If time allows, I will briefly describe the main punchline of this paper.