I just heard about this from George Sparling, who is giving a talk this afternoon with the title “From Roger Penrose to Robert Langlands and back” at a symposium in Pittsburgh. I don’t at all know what this is about, but am posting this quickly because he tells me there may be a live stream of his talk at 5pm today, available at<\/p>\n
http:\/\/live.twistor.org<\/p>\n
Evidently yesterday and today at Pittsburgh there’s a symposium on “Towards the Unification of Mathematics and Physics”, with the following schedule:<\/p>\n
4pm Wednesday: Mellon Professor Thomas Hales, “The present status of the Langlands Conjecture”.
\n5pm Wednesday: Jonathan Holland, “Parabolic geometry”.<\/p>\n
4pm Thursday: Tim Adamo, University of Oxford, “Twistor-String theory and gravity”
\n5pm Thursday: George Sparling, “From Roger Penrose to Robert Langlands and back.”<\/p>\n
Last week there was a workshop at Banff on The Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes<\/a>, with videos now available. I’ll try soon to take a look at some of them, Sparling’s may give an idea of what he is up to.<\/p>\n And, for something completely different, see this interview with Edward Frenkel<\/a> about the Langlands Program at the Fields Institute blog for this fall’s Fields Medal symposium.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> There’s a video of the Sparling talk available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just heard about this from George Sparling, who is giving a talk this afternoon with the title “From Roger Penrose to Robert Langlands and back” at a symposium in Pittsburgh. I don’t at all know what this is about, … Continue reading