
Quantum information and black holes
Johanna Erdmenger University of Würzburg
Mathematical physics, including mathematics, is a research area where novel mathematical techniques are invented to tackle problems in physics, and where novel mathematical ideas find an elegant physical realization. Historically, it would have been impossible to distinguish between theoretical physics and pure mathematics. Often spectacular advances were seen with the concurrent development of new ideas and fields in both mathematics and physics. Here one might note Newton's invention of modern calculus to advance the understanding of mechanics and gravitation. In the twentieth century, quantum theory was developed almost simultaneously with a variety of mathematical fields, including linear algebra, the spectral theory of operators and functional analysis. This fruitful partnership continues today with, for example, the discovery of remarkable connections between gauge theories and string theories from physics and geometry and topology in mathematics.
Johanna Erdmenger University of Würzburg
Catherine Meusburger University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Cohl Furey Humboldt University of Berlin
Bianca Dittrich Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Theo Johnson-Freyd Dalhousie University
Sylvie Paycha University of Potsdam
Katarzyna Rejzner University of York
Anne Taormina Durham University
Reiko Toriumi Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Paul Townsend University of Cambridge
Michel Dubois-Violette University of Paris-Saclay
Kirill Krasnov University of Nottingham
Peter Koroteev University of California, Berkeley
Nora Ganter University of Melbourne
Sarah Harrison Stanford University
Anne Moreau University of Poitiers