The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) serves as an advisory committee to the Director and the Permanent Members. The SAC consists of the SCGP faculty (ex officio) and external members. The external members add to the expertise of ex officio members and represent the fields of research that complement the ones of SCGP faculty. Other factors such as gender and geographic diversity (both nationwide and worldwide) and experience with other similar research institutes around the world are also considered for SAC nominations. The Committee suggests topics and organizers, and helps solicit the organizers to submit detailed proposals for future programs. It also evaluates proposals that the Center receives from general solicitations for such programs and–when appropriate–refashions them for stronger proposals more in line with the Center’s goals.
The current membership of the SCGP Scientific Advisory Committee:
DIRECTOR
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé
Director
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
lalvarezgaume@scgp.stonybrook.edu
631-632-2800
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Samuel Grushevsky
Deputy Director
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
sgrushevsky@scgp.stonybrook.edu
631-632-2849
COMMITTEE STAFF PERSON
Janell Rodgers
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
jrodgers@scgp.stonybrook.edu
631-632-2824
EXTERNAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
David Ben-Zvi
Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
benzvi@math.utexas.edu
Denis Bernard
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique
Ecole Normale Superieure
denis.bernard@ens.fr
Pasquale Calabrese
Statistical Physics
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
calabrese@sissa.it
Mike Hopkins
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
mjh@math.harvard.edu
Sheldon Katz
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
katzs@illinois.edu
Alexei Kitaev
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Caltech
kitaev@caltech.edu
Sakura Schafer-Nameki
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
sakura.schafer-nameki@maths.
Samson Shatashvili
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
samson@maths.tcd.ie
Anne Taormina
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham University
anne.taormina@durham.ac.uk
Ashvin Vishwanath
Department of Physics
Harvard University
ashvin_vishwanath@fas.harvard.edu
ALL SENIOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SIMONS CENTER
Simon Donaldson
Kenji Fukaya
Zohar Komargodski
Nikita Nekrasov
John Pardon
