Form & Line, March 3 – April 21, 2016

Form & Line Featuring the work of artist Beverly Ress and the Virginia Tech Industrial Design Students March 3 – April 21, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh, Art Director and Curator, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception … Read more

Simons Center Gallery Closing Reception: Through a Looking Glass, Feb. 18, 2016

Through a Looking Glass Featuring work by Jeppe Hein, Daniel Rozin, Alyson Shotz December 3, 2015 – February 18, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh Closing Reception: Thursday, February 18, 2016 Wine & Cheese Reception, 5:00 – 5:45 pm Simons Center Gallery and Lobby Artist Talk by Alyson Shotz, 5:45 pm SCGP Auditorium (Room … Read more

Through a Looking Glass, December 3 – February 18, 2016

Jeppe Hein, Daniel Rozin, Alyson Shotz December 3, 2015 – February 18, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 2015 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center Gallery and Lobby 5:45 pm: Artist talk by Daniel Rozin, SCGP Auditorium (Rm 103) Title: “Creating Digital Interactive Art using Reflection” … Read more

Inclement Weather Event Updates

Due to the inclement weather the following events have been rescheduled:  Della Pietra Lecture Series – General Public Lecture  Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00 pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 6:00pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title: “Science from a sheet of paper” Abstract: Starting from just a sheet … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Professor Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge University) February 8-10, 2016

General Public Lecture  Date: NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this event has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00 pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 6:00 pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title: “Science from a sheet of paper” Abstract: Starting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, … Read more

Spring 2016 – Seminar Series “Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland systems”

Organized by: Nikita Nekrasov, Alexander Turbiner and Alexander Abanov Timing: Spring 2016 Abstract: Calogero-Moser-Sutherland many-body systems arose originally in the 1970’s simultaneously in Nuclear Physics, Mathematical Physics and Solid State Physics. Since then they were found in some incarnations in diverse branches of physics and mathematics such as the theory of quantum Hall effect, Yang-Mills … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talks – Spring 2016

Organized by Alexander Abanov SCGP Weekly Talks is a colloquium style series of talks aimed at all members and visitors of the Simons Center and the more general math and physics community on Stony Brook campus. The regular time and place for the talks are Tuesday, 1pm. During the workshops at the Center the talks … Read more

Penrose Tiling

The paving pattern outside the ground entrance to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics follows a design invented by Roger Penrose in the early 1970s; the design comes from his solution to the problem of finding the smallest number of tile shapes that can only tile non-periodically: the entire pattern never repeats, no matter how far … Read more

2014 – 2015 Science Playwriting Competition

The 2014 – 2015 Science Playwriting Competition Winners Have Been Announced: 1st Place Prize = Moira Chas = “The Mathematical Visions of Alicia Boole” 2nd Place Prize = Michael Shodell – “A Number of Things” 3rd Place Prize = Colin West – “Counting Sheep” Honorable Mentions: Paige Borak – “Entropy” Hillary Bhaskaran – “A Planet is Born” … Read more