Party After Talk on Spin Particles by Francis Howard
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2023-07-24

On June 27, 2023, we held this online party to celebrate, socialize and casually engage mathematical physicist Francis Howard and discuss the talk which he gave on May 29, 2023.  That was the inaugural Math 4 Wisdom distinguished lecture,  "Group-Algebraic Characterization of Spin Particles: Semi-Simplicity, SO(2N) Structure and Iwasawa Decomposition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0WjClpA4YM
Francis talked about a paper 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00006-022-01214-2
which he coauthored with his supervisors, Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou and Kinvi Kangni.  All three are affiliated with International Chair of Mathematical Physics and Applications, (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, 072 B.P. 50 Cotonou, Republic of Benin. 

Francis is from Ghana and will defend his PhD this year.  He is working as a lecturer and pursuing opportunities for post doc research.  

Our party included biophysicist, environmental scientist, philosopher Jere Northrup, theoretical physicist Thomas Gajdosik, mathematician and physicist John Harland, philosopher and mathematician Andrius Kulikauskas, and mathematician Ryan Buchanan.

Since this is a party video, I have added some special effects and some extra video footage, including Samuel Hutchens playing the drums.  Thank you to https://freesound.org for sound effects!

We are honored that Francis participates at Math 4 Wisdom, including through our new study group on the mathematics of the divisions of everything.  Our study group brings together math enthusiasts at the basic level (high school students and teachers) and the advanced level (math graduate students).  We will be studying the math relevant for the cognitive frameworks of Andrius Kulikauskas's "wondrous wisdom".  We start with basic notions such as the complex numbers and the binomial theorem, we master key structures such as SU(2) and we aspire to understand the intricacies of Bott periodicity.

Please join us!  Sign up for our Math 4 Wisdom discussion group
https://www.freelists.org/list/math4wisdom
and you will get invitations to our study group's sessions.  

Thank you to John Harland, Bill Pahl and all for your support through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/math4wisdom

Visit my website http://www.math4wisdom.com to contact me, Andrius Kulikauskas, and learn more about Math 4 Wisdom!