
Production of Solar Scalars
Anne Davis University of Cambridge
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.
Anne Davis University of Cambridge
Astrid Eichhorn Universität Heidelberg
Ruth Gregory King's College London
Cliff Burgess McMaster University
Shinji Mukohyama Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Andrew Tolley Imperial College London
Kazuya Koyama University of Portsmouth
Martin Kunz University of Geneva (UNIGE)
David Langlois Université Paris Cité