Organized by: Niayesh Afshordi, Emil Martinec and Samir D. Mathur 50 years ago Stephen Hawking published his famous paper arguing that the evaporation of black holes violated quantum unitarity. In the intervening decades, the puzzle, known as the black hole information paradox, has become an intense focus of interest. However, different parts of the community … Read more
Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Seventeenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-second in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. This year’s Simons summer workshop in physics will explore future … Read more
Organized by: Aleksey Cherman (U of Minnesota) Sungwoo Hong, (KAIST) Nabil Iqbal (Durham U) Zohar Komargodski (SCGP) Emily Nardoni, (Vassar College) Tin Sulejmanpasic (Durham U) Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (SBU) Our workshop proposal centers on trying to bring together the members of several disjoint communities in a productive and informative way. While workshops to this effect do … Read more
Organized by: Vincenzo Alba Jerome Dubail Mari-Carmen Banuls Aditi Mitra Anatoli Polkovniko The workshop will foster interactions among experts in quantum and classical simulation methods, quantum information, and tractable systems, to assess the state-of-the art of these questions, and propose benchmarks that may help answer it. First, the workshop will stimulate a complexity-informed exploration of … Read more
Organized by: Luigi Ambrosio (Pisa) Andrea Mondino (Oxford) Raquel Perales (CIMAT) Christina Sormani (CUNYGC and Lehman College) In the nearly twenty-five years since the publication of Ambrosio-Kirchheim’s seminal paper, Currents on Metric Spaces, there have been significant applications of this generalization of Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) that deepen our understanding of both Geometry and Physics. … Read more
Organized by: John Anderson (Stony Brook) Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton) Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook) Jonathan Luk (Stanford) Recent years have seen many exciting advances in the study of PDEs. Experience has shown that ideas developed in the context of certain PDEs can often be adapted to say something interesting about other equations as well. Even when … Read more
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Organized by: Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University) Robin Karlsson (CERN) Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria) Hong Liu (MIT) Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin) There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can … Read more
Organized by: David Auckly (Kansas State) Aliakbar Daemi (Washington Univ-St Louis) Olga Plamenevskaya (Stony Brook University) Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis) Nikolai Saveliev (University of Miami) In the 1980s, Donaldson introduced methods of Yang–Mills gauge theory in topology, with remarkable applications. By the 1990s, research largely shifted away from Donaldson theory to Seiberg–Witten theory, and, a few … 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
