Simons Programme on Twistor Theory and its Applications
Simons Programme on Twistor Theory and its Applications
Institute of Mathematics, 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 (01.09.2026): Heavenly Day
Workshop at IMPAN in Warsaw (02 - 04.09.2026): Cartan Geometries
Workshop at IMPAN in Warsaw (08.09.2026): General Relativity
Conference at IMPAN in Warsaw (14 - 18.09.2026): Einstein Equations and Conformal Geometry
Workshop at IMPAN in Warsaw (24.09.2026): Integrable Systems
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)
Alexander Goodenbour (University of Oxford)
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)
Virinchi Rallabhandi (University of Edinburgh)
Timothy Adamo (University of Edinburgh)
Dinmukhammed Akpan (FSU Jena)
Lars Andersson (University of Potsdam; BIMSA, Beijing)
Roberto Araujo (IM PAN)
Zuzanna Bakun (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Krystian Bartczak (University of Łódź)
Bilguun Bayarsaikhan (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Aleksandra Borówka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Jarosław Buczyński (IM PAN)
Kasia Budzik (Harvard)
Yu Chen (NTU Singapore)
Piotr Chrusciel (University of Vienna)
Vitel Corentin (Université Bourgogne Europe)
Marek Demiański (University of Warsaw)
Wojciech Domitrz (Warsaw University of Technology)
Boris Doubrov (Belarusian State University, Minsk)
Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide)
Luis Bonanand Estarlich (University of Cambridge)
Evgeny Ferapontov (Loughborough University)
Udhav Fowdar (University of Warsaw)
Tymon Frelik (University of Warsaw)
Jörg Frauendiener (University of Otago)
Eduardo Garcia-Rio (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Alejandro García Rivas (University of Bologna)
Luca Giudici (FernUni Schweiz)
Can Görmez (University of California, Davis)
Steven Greenwood (Masaryk University)
Marek Grochowski (UKSW, Warsaw)
Kai Hall (University of Cambridge)
Emil Have (University of Oxford and Niels Bohr Institute)
Jonathan Holland (University of Pittsburgh)
Jacek Horecki (Jagiellonian University)
Lane Hughston (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Jun-Muk Hwang (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)
Yasushi Ikeda (Cracow University of Technology)
Bronisław Jakubczyk (IM PAN)
Jacek Jezierski (University of Warsaw)
Alfie Jones (University of Edinburgh)
Wojciech Kamiński (University of Warsaw)
Aaron Kay (University of Cambridge)
Adam Kmec (University of Oxford)
Jarosław Kopiński (CFT PAN)
Artur Krawczyk (University of Warsaw)
Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromsø)
Hari Kunduri (McMaster University)
Mingyang Li (Stony Brook)
James Lucietti (University of Edinburgh)
Angelika Łukanty (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Andrzej Maciejewski (University of Zielona Góra)
Omid Makhmali (UKSW, Warsaw)
Michalina Maksymowicz-Maciata (University of Bristol)
Koushiki Malda (India)
Maciej Maliborski (TU Wien)
Taiji Marugame (Tokyo)
Tim Maruhn (FernUni Schweiz)
Lionel J Mason (University of Oxford)
Thomas Mettler (UniDistance Suisse)
Krzysztof Meissner (University of Warsaw)
Michał Mętel (Jagiellonian University)
Giovanni Moreno (University of Warsaw)
Rodrigo Morón Sanz (Universidad de León)
Piotr Mormul (University of Warsaw)
Heidi Morstang (University of Plymouth)
Katharina Neusser (Masaryk University, Brno)
Kornelia Nikiel (Jagiellonian University)
Paweł Nurowski (CFT PAN)
Kehinde Ogundipe (Yerevan Physics Institute)
Peter Olver (University of Minnesota)
Amin Omarouayache (Sheffield)
Julia Osęka-Lenart (Jagiellonian University)
Maciej Ossowski (Jagiellonian University)
Andriy Panasyuk (UKSW, Warsaw)
Stylianos Papadopoulos (University of Tartu)
Przemysław Podleśny (Jagiellonian University)
Bartosz Prech (University of Warsaw)
Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) - online
Maria Przybylska (University of Zielona Góra)
Witold Respondek (Łódź University of Technology)
Prem Chand Saw (Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, India)
Katja Sagerschnig (CFT PAN)
Artur Sergyeyev (Silesian University in Opava)
Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota)
Atul Sharma (Harvard University)
Jan Slovak (Masaryk University, Brno)
Tomasz Smołka (University of Warsaw)
George Sparling (University of Pittsburgh)
Simone Speziale (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille)
Wijnand Steneker (University of Tromsø)
Josef Šilhan (Masaryk University, Brno)
Adam Szereszewski (University of Warsaw)
Sebastian Szybka (Jagiellonian University)
Arman Taghavi-Chabert (University of Łódź)
Tomasz Taylor (University of Warsaw)
Dennis The (University of Tromsø)
Arianna Viganò (University of Edinburgh)
Raffaele Vitolo (Universita' del Salento)
Petr Vlachopulos (Masaryk University, Brno)
Andrew Waldron (University of California Davis)
Ben Warhurst (University of Warsaw)
Jonas Wessling (Jagiellonian University)
Jan Wierzbicki (Jagiellonian University)
Aneta Wojnar (University of Wrocław)
Hanzhi Zhang (University of Cambridge)
email: twistortheory@impan.pl