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Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard),
Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)
The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Seventeenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-second in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. This year’s Simons summer workshop in physics will explore future pathways for fundamental physics. This will be based on evaluating what we have learned in the past few decades in fundamental physics including string theory and quantum field theories, what is missing in our understanding, and general directions which could potentially remedy this.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
- All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall (Room 102).
- Breakfast will be served daily from 9:00am-10:00am in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
- Lunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
- Tea time will be in the Simons Center Cafe at 3:30pm *Tuesday Tea time will be at 4:30 before the concert in the SCGP Lobby
Wednesdays
- The talk will be at Smith Point Beach at 11AM (please see Special Events above). Lunch will be served at Smith Point Beach around 12:30pm.
SPECIAL EVENTS & BANQUETS
Tuesdays: Summer Concert Series – 5PM – SCGP Auditorium
Thursdays: Banquet Dinners
Please see Special Events above
- Thursday, July 31, 2025 – Banquet Dinner Hosted by Luis Alvarez-Gaume – 6PM – SCGP Cafe
- Thursday, August 7, 2025 – Special Dinner Hosted by Marilyn Simons – 6PM – Avalon Park
- Thursday, August 14, 2025 – Special Dinner Hosted by Martin Rocek – 7:00PM – Rocek Residence
Talk Schedule Week 1
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | On the endpoint of black hole evaporation (Part 1) | Ahmed Almheiri | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | On the endpoint of black hole evaporation (Part 2) | Ahmed Almheiri | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Aspects of anomaly matching (Part 1) | Ken Intriligator | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Aspects of anomaly matching (Part 2) | Ken Intriligator | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Group Photo | N/A | SCGP Lobby |
| 12:10pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 4:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 5:00pm | Simons Summer Concert Series | Long Island Chamber Music Group | SCGP 103 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:00am | Constraining Quantum Gravity – at the desk and in the lab | Timo Weigand | Smith Point County Park, 1 William Floyd Pkwy, Shirley, NY 11967, USA |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Generalized Schur partition functions and RG flows (Part 1) | Shlomo Razamat | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Generalized Schur partition functions and RG flows (Part 2) | Shlomo Razamat | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 6:000pm | Workshop Banquet | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | The CFT Distance Conjecture and non-critical strings(Part 1) | Irene Valenzuela | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | The CFT Distance Conjecture and non-critical strings(Part 2) | Irene Valenzuela | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
Talk Schedule Week 2
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Cobordism Utopia (Part 1) | Jonatha Heckman | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Cobordism Utopia (Part 2) | Jonatha Heckman | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | The Obstruction to Holographic Factorization (Part 1) | Jake McNamara | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | The Obstruction to Holographic Factorization (Part 2) | Jake McNamara | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Group Photo | N/A | SCGP Lobby |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 4:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 5:00pm | Simons Summer Concert Series | Performance by the Jazz Loft | SCGP 103 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:00am | Exotic corners of M-theory: From non-SUSY boundaries to deSitter saddles | Miguel Montero | Smith Point County Park, 1 William Floyd Pkwy, Shirley, NY 11967, USA |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | The String Theory Axiverse (Part 1) | Naomi Gendler | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | The String Theory Axiverse (Part 2) | Naomi Gendler | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 6:00pm | Workshop Banquet at Avalon Park and Preserve | N/A | Avalon Park and Preserve |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Comments on QED_3 in a magnetic field (Part 1) | Juan Maldacena | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Comments on QED_3 in a magnetic field Part (2) | Juan Maldacena | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
Talk Schedule Week 3
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Dynamical Swampland (Part 1) | Alek Bedroya | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Dynamical Swampland (Part 2) | Alek Bedroya | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Tame Geometry in QFTs and the Swampland (Part 1) | Thomas Grimm | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Tame Geometry in QFTs and the Swampland (Part 2) | Thomas Grimm | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Group Photo | N/A | SCGP Lobby |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 4:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 5:00pm | Simons Summer Concert Series | Piano Performance by Leon Livshin | SCGP 103 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:00am | The No-Hair theorem, Gibbs Uniqueness, and Persistent Order | Zohar Komargodski | Smith Point County Park, 1 William Floyd Pkwy, Shirley, NY 11967, USA |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Bootstrap constraints on the S-matrix of (super)gravity(Part 1) | Leonardo Rastelli | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Bootstrap constraints on the S-matrix of (super)gravity(Part 2) | Leonardo Rastelli | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 7:00pm | Workshop Banquet Hosted by Martin Rocek | N/A | Martin Rocek’s house |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| 9:00am | Breakfast | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 10:00am | Intro to Modern Cosmology and the Evidence for a Fading Dark Sector (Part 1) | Georges Obied | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Intro to Modern Cosmology and the Evidence for a Fading Dark Sector (Part 2) | Georges Obied | SCGP 102 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | N/A | SCGP Cafe |
