Congratulations to Professor Mark Haskins!

Professor Haskins has received a Simons Foundation award for "Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics."

Professor Mark Haskins is one of the Principal Investigators on the recent successful Simons Collaboration “Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics”, awarded by the Simons Foundation.

The 4-year award for $8.5million is an international multi-university cross-disciplinary collaboration between mathematicians and theoretical physicists. It is only the third Simons Collaboration to be awarded worldwide in mathematics.

The aim is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The collaboration will advance the theory and applications of spaces with special holonomy and the geometric structures and calibrated submanifolds and instantons associated with them, particularly in two exceptional cases: spaces with holonomy G2 or Spin(7) in seven or eight dimensions, respectively. Advances in understanding geometric structures associated with exceptional holonomy spaces have often required insights from apparently disparate parts of the field, or from outside the field entirely. The collaboration brings together the leading mathematics researchers in the various geometric incarnations of exceptional holonomy with experts on the applications to physics. Further information can found here.

Professor Haskins is also the Deputy Collaboration Director and a member of the Collaboration’s Steering Committee. The Collaboration will be organising 4 annual collaboration meetings, two of which are intended to take place at Imperial College. The first meeting on “Collapse, adiabatic limits and special holonomy” will be held here in January 2017.

Further information regarding application for Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences can be found here.