Colloquia

Following Lord Kelvin’s attempt to establish a vortex atom theory of matter (a proper topological field ‘theory of everything’ ante litteram), Peter Guthrie Tait undertook the immense task of studying and classifying knots and links, thus contributing to the origin of the mathematics of knot theory. His work remained ...

People have been modeling music geometrically for more than 300 years. Early in the twenty first century it became clear that many existing models were orbifolds, quotients of R^n (known to musicians as "n-note ordered pitch space") by various symmetry groups (e.g. the "OPTI" symmetries containing octave shifts ...