Simons Center 10th Anniversary Lectures, November 9, 2020
On November 9, 2020, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics will hold a 10th anniversary celebration to mark 10 years since the building’s inauguration. The festivities will include a day of conference talks given by experts in the field and friends of the Simons Center on the following topics; highlights of theoretical Physics and Mathematics […]
Zoom Seminar Series: Dynamics and Renormalization Program
The Simons Center program on Renormalization and Universality in Conformal Geometry, Dynamics, Random Processes, and Field Theory is continuing with a series of online ZOOM seminars throughout 2020. For the full schedule of talks please visit: http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/agenda?LocationID=151 Or our calendar here: http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/calendar/full-calendar In order to be added to our mailing list to receive upcoming talk announcements and […]
Zoom Fall Seminar Series: Supersymmetric Black Holes, Holography and Microstate Counting
Organized by: Cyril Closset (Oxford U.), Leopoldo Pando Zayas (Michigan U.), Luigi Tizzano (SCGP, Stony Brook), Chiara Toldo (Ecole Polytechnique and CEA Saclay), Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano Bicocca U.) This seminar series will serve as a first part of the of the activity. The seminars will be run online via ZOOM, from September 28, 2020 – November […]
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 […]
Summer Seminar Series: Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD
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 at the Simons Center of Stony Brook University, but this in-person meeting is now delayed to June 7, 2021. This will mean a roughly two year gap since […]
A Message from Simons Center Director, Luis Alvarez-Gaume, in response to COVID-19
Dear all, If you have been following the announcements issued by the University, we cannot continue with business as usual at the Center. As such, we will be following the guidelines below: 1.The building has been closed to those without key card access. If you have key card access to the Center, you may come […]
Postponed Events Due to to the Coronavirus
At this time we are postponing and rescheduling the following events: Workshops: Recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory: March 16-20, 2020 Lighting new Lampposts for Dark Matter and Beyond the Standard Model: March 30 – April 3, 2020. Floer homology in low-dimensional topology: April 6-10, 2020 New directions in topological phases: from fractons to spatial […]
COVID-19 Advisory: UPDATE
Employees Returning to Work Daily health self-check screener Building occupancy log Return to work training Cancellation and Postponement of Events In response to growing concerns over the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the Simons Center will be cancelling or postponing all public events until August 24, effective immediately. An updated list of postponed events can […]
Friends of SCGP
The mission of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is to further fundamental research in geometry and theoretical physics, specifically at the interface of these two fields. The Center supports collaborative research at the frontiers of mathematics and physics, and is committed to sharing this knowledge with the broader community. As government funding for […]
