Piano Performance by Leon Livshin, Wednesday April 23

The Simons Center is please to present a piano performance by Leon Livshin. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5:00pm Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, room 103 Crescendo of the Self: From Baroque Humility to Romantic Climax Bach 7 Preludes and Fugues Mozart Sonata in A minor … Read more

Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Memorial Symposium – Monday, April 28th, 2025

Organizing Committee: Luis Alvarez-Gaume David Goldhaber-Gordon Concha Gonzalez-Garcia Vladimir Korepin Barry McCoy Martin Rocek Robert Shrock George Sterman, Chair Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen Tzu-Chieh Wei Alfred (Fred) Scharff Goldhaber passed away last Fall.  Fred was a faculty member at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook nearly from its founding, and a valued … Read more

Science Playwriting Competition – Staged Readings Wednesday, April 16, 2025

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to present the 2025 Science Playwriting Competition Staged Readings of the Winning Plays. First Place: The Physics of Fiction By Alex Dremann Second Place: Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter Third Place: Mother of Chemistry by Rex … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawl: Spring 2025

Art Crawl: Friday, April 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Free guided tours of Stony Brook University art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges.  The art crawl offers tours of five galleries this spring—visiting each … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Edward Frenkel, April 21-24

The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture  Monday April 21, at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby  Title: Where Does Mathematics Come From? Abstract: … Read more

Flows of Reflectivity

Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

DANIEL ROZIN: FrameRates

DANIEL ROZIN: FrameRates October 21–December 10, 2024 Curated by Lorraine Walsh Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Artist Talk:  Daniel Rozin’s Digital Interactive Art. SCGP Room 102 The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is honored to present a … Read more