Simons Programme on Twistor Theory and its Applications
Simons Programme on Twistor Theory and its Applications
Institute of Matematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland, 23.08.2026 - 26.09.2026
Twistor theory was originally proposed by Roger Penrose as a new geometric framework for physics that aims to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. In the twistor approach, space-time is secondary with events being derived objects that correspond to compact holomorphic curves in a complex three-fold, the twistor space. The mathematics of twistor theory goes back to the 19th century Klein correspondence, but one of the unexpected spinoffs from twistor theory is its impact on modern pure mathematics, from differential geometry and representation theory to integrable systems, scattering amplitudes and twistor strings.
Gravitational Instantons
Integrability
Conformal Geometry
School in The Mathematical Research and Conference Center in Będlewo near Poznań (23 - 27.08.2026): Geometry and Integrability
Workshop at IMPAN in Warsaw (02 - 04.09.2026): Cartan Geometries
Conference at IMPAN in Warsaw (14 - 18.09.2026): Einstein Equations and Conformal Geometry
Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)
Wojciech Kryński (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)
Rod Gover (University of Auckland)
Paul Tod (University of Oxford)
Bernardo Araneda (University of Edinburgh)
Roland Bittleson (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
Chen‑Hsu Chien (Masaryk University)
Alex Colling (University of Cambridge)
Denis Dobkowski-Ryłko (University of Gdańsk)
Nora Gavrea (University of Leeds)
Zhangwen Guo (University of Vienna)
Kessy Johnson (UDOM, Tanzania)
Mariem Magdy (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
Noah Miller (Princeton)
Timothy Moy (University of Cambridge)
Timothy Adamo (University of Edinburgh)
Lars Andersson (University of Potsdam; BIMSA, Beijing)
Krystian Bartczak (University of Łódź)
Bilguun Bayarsaikhan (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Mayank Bhandare (University Of Bologna)
Aleksandra Borówka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Robert Bryant (Duke University), TBC
Boris Doubrov (Belarusian State University, Minsk)
Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide)
Luis Bonanand Estarlich (University of Cambridge)
Evgeny Ferapontov (Loughborough University)
Tymon Frelik (University of Warsaw)
Eduardo Garcia-Rio (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Can Görmez (University of California, Davis)
Kai Hall (University of Cambridge)
Jun-Muk Hwang (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)
Yasushi Ikeda (Cracow University of Technology)
Wojciech Kamiński (University of Warsaw)
Aaron Kay (University of Cambridge)
Adam Kmec (University of Oxford)
Artur Krawczyk (University of Warsaw)
Juan Valiente Kroon (Queen Mary, University of London)
Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromsø)
Hari Kunduri (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Mingyang Li (Stony Brook)
James Lucietti (University of Edinburgh)
Omid Makhmali (UKSW, Warsaw)
Maciej Maliborski (TU Wien)
Taiji Marugame (Tokyo)
Lionel J Mason (University of Oxford)
Thomas Mettler (UniDistance Suisse)
Giovanni Moreno (University of Warsaw)
Syed Naqvi (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Paweł Nurowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Kehinde Ogundipe (Yerevan Physics Institute)
Peter Olver (University of Minnesota)
Amin Omarouayache (Sheffield)
Maciej Ossowski (Jagiellonian University)
Stylianos Papadopoulos (University of Tartu)
Przemysław Podleśny (Jagiellonian University)
Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), TBC
Maria Przybylska (University of Zielona Góra)
Bidisha Samanta (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
Abbas Mohamed Sherif (Henan Academy of Sciences)
Jan Slovak (Masaryk University, Brno)
George Sparling (University of Pittsburgh)
Wijnand Steneker (University of Tromsø)
Song Sun (Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University)
Adam Szereszewski (University of Warsaw)
Sebastian Szybka (Jagiellonian University)
Arman Taghavi-Chabert (University of Łódź)
Kartik Tiwari (University of Bonn)
Dennis The (University of Tromsø)
Petr Vlachopulos (Masaryk University, Brno)
Salvatore Vultaggio (University of Otago)
Chen Yu (NTU Singapore)
Jan Wierzbicki (Jagiellonian University)
email: twistortheory@impan.pl