Mathematics and Physics: an entangled tango

We invite the audience to enjoy the intricate dance between theoretical physics and pure mathematics which has been unfolding over the centuries, to witness how they are constantly feeding each other new ideas. Along the way, we will highlight a distinction between mathematical physics and physical mathematics. We shall focus especially on contemporary developments such as string theory, and explain why this attempt at a unified theory of everything is still very much alive and relevant.

About the speaker:

Prof. Yang-Hui He is a Fellow at the London Institute. He is also Chang-Jiang Chair professor at Nankai University in China, and tutor in mathematics at Merton College, Oxford. He studied physics at Princeton, where he won the Shenstone Prize and Kusaka Memorial Prize. He then did the mathematics tripos at Cambridge, before earning his PhD in mathematical physics at MIT. After a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. He joined Oxford as the FitzJames Fellow and an STFC Advanced Fellow. Complementing his research, he is an accomplished science communicator. His public talks have included a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution. Outside research, he plays the violin.

He works on the interface between geometry, number theory and string theory, and is a pioneer in AI-assisted mathematical discovery.

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