SCGP News Volume XVI
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the latest issue of SCGP News, a biannual publication which reflects the Center’s mission, scientific activities and cultural events.
Chris Gerig Lecture Series
Virtual Lecture 1: Wednesday 6/2312:00-13:00 EDT14:00-15:00 EDT 1) Introductory ECH and cobordism map difficultiesAbstract: In these two lectures I will introduce Embedded Contact Homology, a useful Floer theory for contact 3-manifolds, obtained by counting pseudoholomorphic curves and Reeb orbits. ECH is known to be isomorphic to versions of monopole Floer homology, and can be used to probe both […]
Summer Seminar Series: Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD: June 7- August 2021
Organizers: Massimo D’Elia, Jeff Greensite, Elias Kiritsis, Zohar Komargodski, Edward Shuryak, Jacob Sonnenschein, Ismail Zahed A workshop on these topics was supposed to start in June 2020 and then again in June 2021 at the Simons Center of Stony Brook University, but this in-person meeting is now canceled. This will mean a roughly three-year gap […]
Lecture Series by Daniel Jafferis: Mini-course on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix Models
The Simons Center is pleased to present a mini-course by Daniel Jafferis on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix ModelsTalks will be held daily from Monday June 7 – Thursday June 10 at 1:30pm in the SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium, room 103. This will be an in-person event for local attendees, video recordings will be streamed live and available […]
Simons Center YouTube – Della Pietra Lecture Collection
The Simons Center’s popular science lecture series: “Della Pietra lecture series” are now available as a special collection on the Center’s YouTube channel. You can find it HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6pOFUNZzTMxqFKaRR53WvQ
Simons Summer Workshop: Strings and Geometry July 12 – August 6, 2021
If you would like to participate via zoom please email contact@scgp.stonybrook.edu. Scientific organizer: Cumrun VafaLocal organizer: Martin Rocek This Workshop is the thirteenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the eighteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s summer workshop will focus on Strings and Geometry. For […]
COVID-19: Advisory and Updates
Employees Returning to Work Daily health self-check screener Building occupancy log Return to work training Upcoming Events In response to COVID-19, the Simons Center has cancelled or postponed many events. Others have been moved to an online or hybrid format. Please check individual event webpages for most recent information: Workshops Programs For Program and Workshop Participants […]
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Film
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University is pleased to share a new movie highlighting the Center’s research and faculty. Planned to be initially screened at the APS (American Physical Society) 2020 Conference, it will be aired at the APS Conference in 2021. Watch the film here: http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?id=4521 Directed, produced and […]
Virtual Workshop: Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD
Organized by: Massimo D’Elia, Jeff Greensite, Elias Kiritsis, Zohar Komargodski, Edward Shuryak, Jacob Sonnenschein, Ismail Zahed. Understanding gauge field dynamics at the non-perturbative level, in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has been a persistent challenge. Lattice gauge theories solve these issues from first principles, on supercomputers. Semiclassical methods rely on dynamics of gluonic solitons – instantons, monopoles, instanton-dyons […]
