UPDATE Wednesday, October 31st The Hyper Kahler Geometry Workshop will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Lecture Hall 102 beginning at 9:30 am. The SCGP Cafe will be serving breakfast and lunch. All other activity in the Center is to be determined, please check back for updates. Earlier Message: Due … Read more
Title: Baxter’s Operators, Boundary States, ODE/CFT and Beyond Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Alexander Zamolodchikov, Rutgers University Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Auditorium Room 103, Simons Center Abstract: In this talk I will review the paradigm of integrability in 2D Quantum Field Theories (QFT), in particular the Baxter’s operators … Read more
Title: Exact Results in D=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Speaker: Dr. Jaume Gomis, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: The exact computation of the partition function of two dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories using supersymmetric localization will be presented, together with … Read more
With collaborative research started in the fall of 2011 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, the authors study Einstein metrics on smooth compact 4-manifolds with an edge-cone singularity of specified cone angle along an embedded 2-manifold.
In 2009 the Simons Foundation initiated a program through which 46 universities have awarded a total of 70 Postdoctoral Fellowships in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. We have been delighted by the outstanding quality of the appointments made. In a three-day meeting beginning April 11, the Simons Foundation will bring together this remarkable … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) at Stony Brook University is seeking proposals for scientific programs/workshops/conferences. The Simons Center is a research center devoted to furthering fundamental knowledge in mathematics and theoretical physics, especially knowledge at the interface of these two disciplines. Each year the Simons Center funds about 4 Visiting Programs (ranging … Read more
Title: “Gauge Theory, Langlands Duality and Mirror Symmetry” Speaker: Constantin Teleman, Berkeley University of California Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Kapustin and Witten have explained some landmark results and conjectures relating the geometry and representations of Langlands dual pairs of … Read more
Title: Points and Flags Speaker: Sir Michael Atiyah Date: Thursday November 10, 2011 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center Abstract: I will describe and study a natural map from the configuration space of n distinct ordered points in Euclidean 3-space to the flag manifold of U(n). I will also describe … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce that Kenji Fukaya, currently Professor of Mathematics at Kyoto University, will be joining the Center as a Permanent Member starting April 1, 2013. The Center is slated to have 6 permanent members and Kenji is the second, joining Michael Douglas. Kenji’s recent work has … Read more
