We hope your visit to the Simons Center has been productive. Please take a moment to read through the tasks that need to be completed before your departure: Please review the travel reimbursement instructions you received from reimbursements@scgp.stonybrook.edu (if applicable). Please return your SCGP access key to Melissa Wessler in Room 408 before you leave. Your … Read more
Please take a moment to go through this section for any matters pertaining to Housing for your visit at SCGP. What are the Housing Options? Please take a look at the types of housing we have available. For any specific questions, please email housing@scgp.stonybrok.edu. When will I receive my housing confirmation and assignment? Once you … Read more
Please take a moment to go through this section for any matters pertaining to your arrival at SCGP. Where is the Simons Center located and what are business hours? The Simons Center is located on Stony Brook University’s campus, adjacent to the Mathematics building. There is a bridge linking the Simons Center directly to the … Read more
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Ander Mikalson Score for the Big Bang Thursday, November 9, 2024. 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Ander Mikalson discusses her eight-minute Score for A Big Bang featuring speculative sounds the cataclysmic Big Bang might have generated, in the form of a musical score. The composition and performance are sparce, highlighting choral voices and a pipe … Read more
Organized by: Qile Chen (Boston College) Felix Janda (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Melissa Liu (Columbia University) John Pardon (SCGP) Rachel Webb (Cornell University) Modern curve-counting theories were in part inspired by the work of physicists yet have active lives of their own as interesting and rich mathematical notions with … Read more
Wishing you good health, peace, and creativity throughout the New Year
Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair Alexander Zamolodchikov has been named co-recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the award with John Cardy, All Souls College, University of Oxford, “For profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different … Read more
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.
Organizing by: Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield, UK) Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University, USA) Andrew Neitzke (Yale University, USA) Martin Moeller (Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany) This program in Mathematics is inspired by a circle of ideas originating in quantum field theory and string theory, particularly the study of the quantum field theories “of class S”. These … Read more
