3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
Geometry and Physics
As an introduction to modern mathematics, I will speak about recent interactions between geometry and physics. According to Galileo Galilei, "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the Universe." Our language, say English, is made in such a way that it describes our daily life very well. However it is not good enough once one tries to understand non-daily phenomena. For example, one needs quantum mechanics to understand micro phenomena and Einstein's relativity to understand macro phenomena. Therefore, learning mathematics is, in a sense, learning a new language and gaining a new point of view of our universe. On the other hand, mathematics used in quantum mechanics and general relativity was created more than 100 years ago, and not much is known about the recent progress in mathematics (used in modern theoretical physics). In this lecture, I will briefly review the history of mathematics and physics, and introduce some recent topics in geometry inspired by theoretical physics.
* Before Dr. Kanazawa's talk, Dr. Hemant Poudyal (5th batch) will give a small talk on the internationalization efforts with Sikkim University in India.