FRONTIER Research · Beyond Spacetime

🔮 Frontier Sciences — Beyond Spacetime

Positive geometries, the amplituhedron, cosmological polytopes — where physicists are discovering that spacetime itself is emergent from deeper mathematical structures.

Key initiative: UNIVERSE+ — €10M ERC Synergy Grant (2023–2029) studying positive geometry in particle physics and cosmology.

10
Research Centers
$280M
Total Funding
6
International Sites
4
UNIVERSE+ PIs

Key Geometric Objects

Amplituhedron — Encodes scattering amplitudes without spacetime (Arkani-Hamed & Trnka, 2013)
Cosmological Polytope — Extends framework to cosmological correlators
Associahedron — Connects to bi-adjoint scalar & string amplitudes
Surfacehedron — Generalization linking to string-like amplitudes

Research Centers