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
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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
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Workshop at IMPAN in Warsaw (02 - 04.09.2026): Cartan Geometries
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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)
Jingsong Ao (IPPT PAN)
Zuzanna Bakun (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Krystian Bartczak (University of Łódź)
Bilguun Bayarsaikhan (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Mohammed Benharrat (National Polytechnic School of Oran-Maurice Audin)
Mayank Bhandare (University Of Bologna)
Maciej Błaszak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Aleksandra Borówka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Kasia Budzik (Harvard)
Yu Chen (NTU Singapore)
Piotr Chrusciel (University of Vienna)
Vitel Corentin (Université Bourgogne Europe)
Marek Demiański (University of Warsaw)
Shailesh Dhasmana (Czech Academy of Science)
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)
Xu Haoran (HIAS)
Jacek Horecki (Jagiellonian University)
Lane Hughston (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Jun-Muk Hwang (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)
Yasushi Ikeda (Cracow University of Technology)
Abdul Jawad (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan)
Alfie Jones (University of Edinburgh)
Wojciech Kamiński (University of Warsaw)
Aaron Kay (University of Cambridge)
Adam Kmec (University of Oxford)
Jarosław Kopiński (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Artur Krawczyk (University of Warsaw)
Juan Valiente Kroon (Queen Mary, University of London)
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)
Heidi Morstang (University of Plymouth)
Syed Naqvi (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Katharina Neusser (Masaryk University, Brno)
Maciej Nieszporski (University of Warsaw)
Kornelia Nikiel (Jagiellonian University)
Paweł Nurowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Kehinde Ogundipe (Yerevan Physics Institute)
Peter Olver (University of Minnesota)
Amin Omarouayache (Sheffield)
Julia Osęka-Lenart (Jagiellonian University)
Maciej Ossowski (Jagiellonian University)
Andriy Panasyuk (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)
Stylianos Papadopoulos (University of Tartu)
Przemysław Podleśny (Jagiellonian University)
Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) - online
Maria Przybylska (University of Zielona Góra)
Shamaila Rani (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan)
Bidisha Samanta (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
Prem Chand Saw (Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, India)
Artur Sergyeyev (Silesian University in Opava)
Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minesota)
Atul Sharma (Harvard University)
Abbas Mohamed Sherif (Henan Academy of Sciences)
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