The New Year will bring together researchers from pure mathematics and physics in Canterbury for the conference Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics. We will welcome Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton) and Professor Lauren Williams (Berkeley), who will each deliver a lecture series, as well as invited speakers from the UK, France, and Germany.
Professor Arkani-Hamed is the inaugural winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He will present on the interactions between Total Positivity, a phenomenon that arises in diverse areas of pure mathematics, and scattering amplitudes in physics.
Professor Williams (left) has been awarded the 2016 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory. She will speak about her work connecting Total Positivity and Integrable Systems.
This interdisciplinary conference is supported by the Anglo-Franco-German Representation Theory Network, and aims to be a springboard for fresh interactions between physics and mathematics.
Full details at http://www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/personal/sl261/Conference/Canterbury2016/TPatKent.html