{"id":278,"date":"2015-12-07T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:14:02","slug":"total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sns.ias.edu\/arkani\/\">Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed<\/a> (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton) and <a href=\"http:\/\/math.berkeley.edu\/~williams\/\">Professor Lauren Williams<\/a> (Berkeley), who will each deliver a lecture series, as well as invited speakers from the UK, France, and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2016\/01\/williams_lauren.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-279 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2016\/01\/williams_lauren-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"williams_lauren\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2016\/01\/williams_lauren-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2016\/01\/williams_lauren.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Professor Williams (left) has been awarded the 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/awmmath\/programs\/microsoft-research-prize\">AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory<\/a>. She will speak about her work connecting Total Positivity and Integrable Systems.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nFull details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/personal\/sl261\/Conference\/Canterbury2016\/TPatKent.html\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/personal\/sl261\/Conference\/Canterbury2016\/TPatKent.html<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/&amp;t=Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/&amp;title=Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/&amp;title=Total Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/total-positivity-a-bridge-between-representation-theory-and-physics\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99401,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}