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ICMS - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences

This workshop aims to bring together experts on singularity formation from mathematical general relativity as well as from dispersive PDE to map out the current frontiers of the fields, stimulate the transfer of ideas, foster discussions and new collaborations, and to inspire the new generation of researchers to take up the challenges this field holds. On the side of general relativity the workshop focuses on the topics of naked singularities, singularities inside black holes, as well as cosmological singularities. On the side of dispersive PDE the workshop aims to discuss the characterisation of general singularities and blow-up dynamics.

Calculus, Differential Equations and Integration,    Mathematical Physics

Institute of Physics (IOP)

The Sun bathes the Earth in light but also in a stream of charged particles traveling at over 1.8 million mph. As these particles reach Earth, they collide with Earth’s magnetic field, getting captured and trapped in the space around us.

Dr. Forsyth will explain how this stream of particles results in the aurora, Van Allen belts and what stops such ‘space weather’ negatively impacting our lives

Public Lectures and Outreach,    Geophysics and Geology

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Dr Sadie Jones, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton will discuss the mysterious behaviour of Active Galactic Nucleui (AGN) NGC 4051 which was the subject of her PhD research. She will specifically focus on the simultaneous Radio and X-ray data analysis she did and then end with some discussion of how the first direct image of a black hole was produced using a combination of radio interferometry and computing expertise.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

Defining a theory of quantum gravity remains one of the most challenging problems at the cutting edge of research in mathematical and theoretical physics. Unlocking this problem implies constructing a quantum field theoretic description of gravity which fully elucidates how a quantum field theory encodes gravitational spacetime background solutions. Much of the progress in shaping the language and the framework of this problem owes its genesis to a specific subset of problems in quantum gravity, namely those dealing with understanding the organisation of information in black holes.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from number theory, automorphic representation theory and string theory to explore how automorphic forms that encode degeneracies of BPS could be related to and feed into information theoretic concepts such as quantum error corrections, applied to BPS and near-extremal black hole backgrounds, and to develop machine learning techniques to unveil some of the hitherto undefined automorphic structures underlying the generating functions for BPS black hole microstates in superstring models. This event is the first workshop of the 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Number Theory, Arithmetic

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers in solution-generating techniques and integrability, as well as Riemann-Hilbert factorization problems in gravity. It will also bring in expertise in AI and machine learning as a tool, especially in solving factorization problems, and in developing new matrix factorization methods that will be of service to solving gravitational PDEs. This event is the second workshop in a 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop aims to bring together researchers in quantum gravity and in holographic quantum information to take advantage of the rapid recent progress in these streams of research with a view to tackling outstanding questions related to black hole entropy and, more generally, the structure of information in quantum gravity. This is the last of the 3 workshops of a 4-month long BLH programme at the INI centred around the same topics.