MMRT 2026 focuses on modern categorical and diagrammatic methods in representation theory, with particular emphasis on monoidal categories, categorification, and their applications to Lie algebras, quantum groups, and quantum symmetric pairs. The conference aims to bring together leading researchers and early-career mathematicians to exchange new techniques, highlight emerging connections with topology and quantum mathematics, and foster interaction across complementary modern approaches.
Dates and location
Organizing committee
- Hadi Salmasian (University of Ottawa)
- Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa)
- Yaolong Shen (University of Ottawa)
Speakers
- Elijah Bodish (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Martina Belagović (University of Newcastle)
- Jon Brundan (University of Oregon)
- Nicolle Gonzalez (University of British Columbia)
- Mee Seong Im (Johns Hopkins University)
- Stefan Kolb (Newcastle University)
- Jianping Pan (Arizona State University)
- Shifra Reif (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers University)
- Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley)
- Weiqiang Wang (University of Virginia)
- Ben Webster (Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo)
- Milen Yakimov (Northeastern University)
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