The\u00a0conference \u201cTotal Positivity: a bridge between Representation Theory and Physics\u201d held \u00a0at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science\u00a07-12 January, brought together\u00a0over 50 researchers\u00a0from\u00a0diverse areas,\u00a0such as\u00a0algebra, integrable systems and mathematical physics.\u00a0 They came from the USA, France, Germany and across the UK.<\/p>\n
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed \u00a0\u00a0(Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton) and Professor Lauren Williams (Berkeley),\u00a0each\u00a0delivered a lecture\u00a0series. \u00a0Professor Arkani-Hamed is\u00a0one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and was the inaugural winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He\u00a0presented his work\u00a0on the interactions between Total Positivity, a phenomenon\u00a0that arises\u00a0in diverse areas of pure mathematics, \u00a0and scattering amplitudes in physics. Professor Williams is a highly influential pure mathematician who has\u00a0been awarded the 2016 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory.\u00a0She spoke about her\u00a0research\u00a0connecting\u00a0Total Positivity with Integrable Systems.\u00a0\u00a0A further nine invited speakers, from France, Germany and the UK, showed how their work touched upon Total Positivity.<\/p>\n
This interdisciplinary\u00a0workshop was\u00a0generously\u00a0supported by\u00a0the Anglo-Franco-German Representation Theory Network.\u00a0Full details can be found at https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/personal\/sl261\/Conference\/Canterbury2016\/TPatKent.html<\/a><\/p>\n