Sebastien Palcoux
Associate Professor
Group: Quantum Symmetry
Office: A3-3a-306
Email: sebastienpalcoux@bimsa.cn
Research Field: Tensor Category, Subfactor, Quantum Symmetry, Quantum Algebra, Operator Algebras
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/sebastienpalcoux
Biography
2010, obtained a doctorate from Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M); 2014-2016, Postdoc in Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc); 2019, One-year visitor at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University; 2020-2024, Assistant Professor at BIMSA; 2024-now, Associate Professor at BIMSA.
Main Research Fields include Quantum Algebra, Quantum Symmetry, Subfactor, Planar Algebra and Fusion Category.
Published papers in the journals Advances in Mathematics, Quantum Topology, IMRN, etc...
Research Interest
Education Experience
- 2003 - 2004 Aix-Marseille University Mathematics Master Toeplitz index and cyclic cohomology (Supervisor: Michael Puschnigg)
- 2004 - 2005 Aix-Marseille University Mathematics Master Atiyah-Singer index theorem (Supervisor: Antony Wassermann)
- 2005 - 2009 Aix-Marseille University Mathematics Doctor Unitary discrete series, characters, Connes fusion and subfactors for the Neveu-Schwarz algebra (Supervisor: Antony Wassermann)
Work Experience
- 2020 - BIMSA Assistant Professor
- 2019 - 2020 Tsinghua University Visiting Scholar
- 2017 - Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Visiting Scholar Operator Algebras: Subfactors and their applications
- 2016 - 2016 Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics Visiting Scholar von Neumann algebras Trimester
- 2015 - Indian Statistical Institute Visiting Scholar with P. Das, S. Ghosh and J. Bowmick
- 2014 - 2014 Vanderbilt University Visiting Scholar with D. Bisch and V. Jones
- - Institute of Mathematical Sciences Postdoc Chennai/Madras (India) with V.S. Sunder
Honors and Awards
- 2024 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program (Grant no. 12471031) 2025-01-01 ~ 2028-12-31
- 2022 Foreign Youth Talent Program, Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China,
- 2022 Invited speaker at ICCM 2022
Publication
- [1] Max Alekseyev, Winfried Bruns, Jingcheng Dong, Sebastien Palcoux, Classifying integral Grothendieck rings up to rank 5 and beyond, arXiv:2507.07023 (2025)
- [2] Mainak Ghosh, Sebastien Palcoux, Frobenius subalgebra lattices in tensor categories, arXiv:2502.19876 (2025)
- [3] Sebastian Burciu, Sebastien Palcoux, Structure constants, Isaacs property and Extended-Haagerup fusion categories, Communications in Algebra (2025)
- [4] Max A. Alekseyev, Winfried Bruns, Sebastien Palcoux, Fedor V. Petrov, Classification of integral modular data up to rank 13 , arXiv:2302.01613 (2024)
- [5] Linzhe Huang , Zhengwei Liu, Sebastien Palcoux, Jinsong Wu, Complete Positivity of Comultiplication and Primary Criteria for Unitary Categorification, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2024(1), 817-860 (2024)
- [6] Zhengwei Liu, Sebastien Palcoux, Yunxiang Ren, Interpolated family of non-group-like simple integral fusion rings of Lie type, International Journal of Mathematics, 34(06), 2350030 (2023)
- [7] Sebastian Burciu, Sebastien Palcoux, Burnside type results for fusion categories, arXiv:2302.07604 (2023)
- [8] Zhengwei Liu, Sebastien Palcoux, Yunxiang Ren, Triangular prism equations and categorification, arXiv:2203.06522 (2022)
- [9] Zhengwei Liu, Sebastien Palcoux ,Yunxiang Ren, Classification of Grothendieck rings of complex fusion categories of multiplicity one up to rank six, Letters in Mathematical Physics, 112(3), 54 (2022)
- [10] Zhengwei Liu, Sebastien Palcoux, Jinsong Wu, Fusion bialgebras and Fourier analysis: analytic obstructions for unitary categorification, Advances in Mathematics, 390, 107905 (2021)
- [11] Sebastien Palcoux, Ore's theorem on subfactor planar algebras, Quantum Topology, 11(3), 525-543 (2020)
- [12] Andrea Lucchini, Mariapia Moscatiello, Sebastien Palcoux and Pablo Spiga, Boolean lattices in finite alternating and symmetric groups, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 8, e55 (2020)
- [13] Sebastien Palcoux, Pablo Spiga, The Boolean intervals of Chevalley type are strongly non group-complemented, arXiv:1911.06076 (2019)
- [14] Sébastien Palcoux, Euler totient of subfactor planar algebras, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 146(11), 4775-4786 (2018)
- [15] Mamta Balodi, Sebastien Palcoux, On Boolean intervals of finite groups, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 157, 49-69 (2018)
- [16] Sebastien Palcoux, Dual Ore's theorem on distributive intervals of finite groups, Journal of Algebra, 505, 279-287 (2018)
- [17] Sebastien Palcoux, Ore's theorem for cyclic subfactor planar algebras and beyond, Pacific Journal of Mathematics (2018)
- [18] Sebastien Palcoux, Dual Ore's theorem for distributive intervals of small index, arXiv:1610.07253 (2016)
- [19] Sebastien Palcoux, Ore's theorem for cyclic subfactor planar algebras and applications, arXiv:1505.06649 (2015)
- [20] Sebastien Palcoux, The type III manufactory, arXiv:1101.2827 (2011)
- [21] Sebastien Palcoux , Spectral triples for finitely presented groups, index 1, arXiv:1011.4436 (2010)
- [22] Sébastien Palcoux, Neveu-Schwarz and operators algebras I: Vertex operators superalgebras, arXiv:1010.0078 (2010)
- [23] Sébastien Palcoux, Neveu-Schwarz and operators algebras II: Unitary series and characters, arXiv:1010.0077 (2010)
- [24] Sébastien Palcoux, Série discrète unitaire, caractères, fusion de Connes et sous-facteurs pour l'algèbre Neveu-Schwarz, Université de la Méditerranée-Aix-Marseille II (2009)
- [25] Sébastien Palcoux, Panorama around the Virasoro algebra (2009)
- [26] Sébastien Palcoux, Neveu-Schwarz and operators algebras III: Subfactors and Connes fusion, arXiv:1010.0076 (2010)
- [27] Sebastien Palcoux, Spectral triples for finitely generated groups, index 0, arXiv:1010.5221 (2010)
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