Scientific Advisory Committee

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

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.ox.ac.uk

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

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook NY 11794-3636, USA