Edinburgh things I help organize
GRIFT: Geometry and Representation Theory in Field Theory ~ group meetings, seminars, and retreats
Fox & Hedgehog Seminar: big ideas in math and science and how we think about them
Other local seminars: Hodge Institute (algebra, geometry, topology), Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group, Higgs Centre
International events I'm co-organizing
SLMath Semester on Representation Theory Under the Influence of QFT, Berkeley, autumn 2026 [click the link to apply]
StringMath 2026 in Edinburgh (together with many colleagues, info coming soon)
Upcoming schools that I'm lecturing at
2025 Summer School on Global Categorical Symmetries: Topological Symmetries and Defects in QFT, June 15-20, SwissMAP, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Past events I've co-organized
Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics online, April 2020 - May 2024 (w/ Ron Donagi, Dan Freed, Sheldon Katz, David Morrison, Andrew Neitzke)
Physical Mathematics in the Highlands, Aviemore, Scotland, UK, Feb 2024 (w/ Lotte Hollands and David Jordan)
QFT for Mathematicians 2022 [videos], Perimeter Institute & online, June 20-30, 2022 (w/ Kevin Costello, Davide Gaiotto, Ben Webster, and Philsang Yoo)
Recent Developments in Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, MF Oberwolfach mini-workshop, March 20-26, 2022 (w/ Catharina Stroppel and Thorsten Heidersdorf)
Twisted QFT: informal online seminar, February-April, 2021 (with Brian Williams), University of Edinburgh
QFT for Mathematicians [videos], Perimeter Institute, June 17-28, 2019 (with Kevin Costello, Davide Gaiotto, Ben Webster, and Philsang Yoo)
New Developments in Quantum Topology, UC Berkeley, June 3-7, 2019 (with Nathan Geer, Toshitake Kohno, and Kolya Reshetikhin)
Chiral Algebras for the 21st Century, April 15-19, 2019, UC Davis (with Philsang Yoo)
Physics and knot homologies, Newton Institute, Cambridge, April 10-13, 2017 (with Jacob Rasmussen and Sergei Gukov)
Recent Developments in Fields, Strings, and Gravity, UC Davis QMAP opening conference, December 12-16, 2016 (with Veronika Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani, and Jaroslav Trnka)
Boundaries and Defects in Quantum Field Theories, Aspen Center for Physics, July 10-August 7, 2016 (with Dan Freed, Anton Kapustin, and Constantin Teleman)
Symplectic Duality and Gauge Theory, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, April 7-10, 2016 (with Alexander Braverman, Kevin Costello, and Davide Gaiotto)