Twistor Theory

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.

Programme Themes

Gravitational Instantons
Integrability
Conformal Geometry

Events

School (24 - 27.08.2026): Geometry and Integrability
Workshop (02 - 04.09.2026): Cartan Geometries
Conference (14 - 18.09.2026): Einstein Equations and Conformal Geometry

Organizers

Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)
Wojciech Kryński (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Simons Professors

Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)
Rod Gover (University of Auckland)
Paul Tod (University of Oxford)

Junior Simons Fellows

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)

Participants

Timothy Adamo (University of Edinburgh)
Lars Andersson (University of Potsdam; BIMSA, Beijing)
Aleksandra Borówka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Robert Bryant (Duke University), TBC
Boris Doubrov (Belarusian State University, Minsk)
Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide)
Evgeny Ferapontov (Loughborough University)
Tymon Frelik (University of Warsaw)
Eduardo Garcia-Rio (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Jun-Muk Hwang (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)
Wojciech Kamiński (University of Warsaw)
Adam Kmec (University of Oxford)
Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromsø)
Hari Kunduri (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Mingyang Li (Stony Brook)
James Lucietti (University of Edinburgh)
Taiji Marugame (Tokyo)
Lionel J Mason (University of Oxford)
Thomas Mettler (UniDistance Suisse)
Giovanni Moreno (University of Warsaw)
Paweł Nurowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Peter Olver (University of Minnesota)
Maciej Ossowski (Jagiellonian University)
Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), TBC
Maria Przybylska (University of Zielona Góra)
Jan Slovak (Masaryk University, Brno)
Wijnand Steneker (University of Tromsø)
Song Sun (Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University)
Adam Szereszewski (University of Warsaw)
Arman Thagavi-Chabert (Łódź University of Technology)
Dennis The (University of Tromsø)
Petr Vlachopulos (Masaryk University, Brno)
Salvatore Vultaggio (University of Otago)

email: twistortheory@impan.pl

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