The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has been awarded to Claire Voisin (National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, France) and Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University, United States) for work that has driven forward mathematical thought by breaking down barriers and bridging the space between two key areas of geometry. The awardee researchers have made “outstanding … Read more
Recent developments in higher genus curve counting: February 10 -14, 2025
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) On the geometric side, the workshop will investigate various moduli spaces recently introduced as tools to understand higher genus invariants, including (but not limited to) … Read more
Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Jocelyn Bell Burnell, February 14 and 15
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture *NOTE this event has been rescheduled to Wednesday 2/14 due to inclement weather: Wednesday, February 14 at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – … Read more
Symplectic Singularities, Supersymmetric QFT, and Geometric Representation Theory: March 31st – April 4, 2025.
Organized by: Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto University) Christopher Beem (University of Oxford) Antoine Bourget (IPhT Saclay), Thomas Creutzig (University of Alberta) Julius Grimminger (University of Oxford) Daniel Juteau (LAMFA, Université de Picardie) Paul Levy (Lancaster University) Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook University) Brandon Rayhaun (Stony Brook University) Alex Weekes (University of Saskatchewan) Supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs) … Read more
Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories, Vertex Operator Algebras, and Geometry: March 17th – April 18th, 2025
Organized by: Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto University) Christopher Beem (University of Oxford) Thomas Creutzig (University of Albert) Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook University) Brandon Rayhaun (Stony Brook University) Supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs) have been intensely researched by both physicists and mathematicians for decades. For physicists, they furnish computationally and conceptually tractable models from which one may … Read more
Recent developments in higher genus curve counting: January 6 – February 28, 2025
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
Random paths to QFT: New probabilistic approaches to field theory: October 14- November 22, 2024
Organized by: Denis Bernard (ENS, Paris) Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Oxford) Antti Kuipianen (University of Helsinki) Nikita Nekrasov (SCGP) Remi Rhodes (Aix-Marseille University) In recent years, new probabilistic methods were developed to offer a rigorous approach to constructing Euclidean path integral measures for several interacting quantum field theories, including the Liouville theory in d=2 and … Read more
Happy Holidays from the Simons Center
Wishing you good health, peace, and creativity throughout the New Year
The Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dava Sobel
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics was honored to host celebrated author Dava Sobel last spring for the Della Pietra Lecture Series. Read More…
Celebrating 20 Years: The Simons Summer Workshop
The 20th Simons Physics Summer Workshop (originally called the Simons Summer Workshop in Mathematics and Physics) was a celebration of the 19 successful workshops that preceded it. Read more…