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OSMU2025
Octonions, Standard Model, and Unification
February 7 – December 19, 2025
An online lecture series presented by
Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy (Bristol)
Motivation:
Several physicists believe that quantum theory, as presently understood, is likely to be approximate, not exact. In particular, our understanding of space-time structure in quantum field theory might be in for an overhaul. Twistor theory, trace dynamics, and the number system known as octonions, will possibly play an important role in this improved understanding of space-time. Octonions have also emerged significantly in recent years in the investigation of elementary particles, the standard model, and its unification with gravitation. Perhaps the foundational underpinnings of quantum gravity, as well as of particle physics, need to be examined afresh. Do we need dark matter, or a modified law of gravitation? Does the standard model of cosmology need a revision? The present lecture series presents ongoing research from eminent physicists and mathematicians working in these fields. Each session will be two hours long, with one hour for the talk, followed by an hour long question-answer session.
Hosts: Tejinder P. Singh and Michael Wright
Advisors: Latham Boyle (Edinburgh), Felix Finster (Regensburg), Cohl Furey (Berlin), Niels Gresnigt (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Jose Isidro (Valencia), Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke), Anthony Lasenby (Cambridge), Roger Penrose (Oxford), Hendrik Ulbricht (Southampton)
SPEAKERS
Mordehai Milgrom
Stacy McGaugh
Latham Boyle
Igor Kannatchikov
Shane Farnsworth
Rabindra Mohapatra
Gregory Moore
Abhay Ashtekar*
Bob Coecke*
Walter van Suijlekom*
Goran Senjanovic*
Roger Penrose*
(More names to be added)
* To Be Confirmed