Geometry of Quantum Hall States Organized by Sasha Abanov, Tankut Can, Anton Kapustin, and Paul Wiegmann April 18, 2016 – June 17, 2016 The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is a fascinating and important phenomenon. Since its experimental discovery in the early 80’s the QHE continues to fuel work in experimental physics, metrology, fundamental theoretical physics … Read more
Complex, p-adic, and logarithmic Hodge theory and their applications Organized by Mark de Cataldo, Radu Laza, Christian Schnell March 7, 2016 – April 29, 2016 Hodge theory is a very powerful tool for understanding the geometry of complex algebraic varieties and it has a wide range of applications in complex and algebraic geometry, mirror symmetry, … Read more
Statistical mechanics and combinatorics Organized by Pavel Bleher, Vladimir Korepin, and Bernard Nienhuis February 15 – April 15, 2016 The purpose of the program is to relate physics and mathematics, and more specifically, statistical mechanics, algebraic combinatorics, and random matrices. The program will focus on the six-vertex model of statistical mechanics and related models, such … Read more
Geometric representation theory Organized by: David Ben-Zvi, Roman Bezrukavnikov and Alexander Braverman January 4-29th, 2016 The program will focus on emerging trends in representation theory and their relation to the more traditional ideas of the subject. The celebrated success of the perverse sheaves methods in 1980’s has led to development of a direction which may … Read more
Moduli spaces and singularities in algebraic and Riemannian geometry Organized by Simon Donaldson (SCGP), Hans-Joachim Hein (Maryland), Henry Guenancia (Stony Brook), Radu Laza (Stony Brook), Yuji Odaka (Kyoto), Song Sun (Stony Brook),Valentino Tosatti (Northwestern) August 17-November 20th, 2015 Weekly Talks are held in SCGP Rm 313. The theme of this program is the interaction between … Read more
Foundations and Applications of Random Matrix Theory in Mathematics and Physics Organized by Alexei Borodin,Peter Forrester, Yan Fyodorov, Alice Guionnet, Jon Keating, Mario Kieburg, and Jacobus Verbaarschot August 24 – December 18, 2015 Weekly Talks are held in SCGP Room 313 at 11:00 am. Random Matrix theory has been applied to many areas in pure … Read more
We are pleased to announce the 2015 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics from July 20 to August 14. This workshop is the eighth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the thirteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. The Centers mission is to develop the interaction of … Read more
Gauge Field Topology: From Lattice Simulations and Solvable Models to Experiment Organized by Jinfeng Liao,Robert Pisarski,Thomas Schaefer and Edward Shuryak Dates: Aug.17-21 , 2015 The aim of this workshop is to bring together people actively working on the physics of topologically non-trivial solutions in gauge theories. We would like to focus not on the objects … Read more
Organizers: Radu Laza, Valentino Tosatti, Mark Gross, and Simon Donaldson Dates: August 31 – September 4, 2015 This workshop is organized in connection to the SCGP program on Moduli spaces and singularities in algebraic and Riemannian geometry. The main topic is the Riemannian collapsing and large complex structure limits of Calabi-Yau manifolds. This is a … Read more
General Public Lecture Tuesday March 31, 2015 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 5:30pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title:The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics Abstract: At the frontiers of physics we search for the principles that might unify all the forces of nature and we strive to understand the … Read more
