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 charge of the committee is to shape the scientific program of the Simons Center, which consists of longer-term visiting programs, and regular weeklong workshops. All these are normally selected from the proposals received, but the committee can request modifications to the proposals, including adding extra organizers or changing focus, and the committee is further empowered to initiate creation of programs and workshops. The term of service is 3 years, renewable at most once.
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
Claudia Landgrover
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
clandgrover@scgp.stonybrook.edu
631-632-2846
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.
Ashvin Vishwanath
Department of Physics
Harvard University
ashvin_vishwanath@fas.harvard.edu
ALL SENIOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SIMONS CENTER
Kenji Fukaya
Zohar Komargodski
Nikita Nekrasov
John Pardon