This meeting will mark the 80th birthday of Sir Roger Penrose. Twistor theory is one of his most remarkable discoveries and continues to have applications across pure mathematics and mathematical physics. This meeting will focus on some recent developments with speakers both on geometry and physics.
Speakers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): Scattering without space-time
- Mike Eastwood (ANU): CR geometry and conformal foliations
- Nigel Hitchin (Oxford): Twistors and Octonions
- Andrew Hodges (Oxford): Polytopes and amplitudes
- Claude LeBrun (SUNY Stony Brook): On Hermitian, Einstein 4-Manifolds
- David Skinner (Perimeter Institute): Scattering amplitudes from holomorphic linking in twistor space
- Paul Tod (Oxford): Conformal cyclic cosmology
Registration will start at 1.30pm on the 21st with the first lecture at 2.15pm. The meeting will finish by 4.30pm on the 22nd. See the programme for more details.
There will be a reception at 6.30pm on the 21st July (Wadham College) followed by dinner at 7.15 in Wadham College.