activities and events
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
SCGP Gallery Closing Reception – Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art – Nov. 12, 2015
Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art Closing Reception Thursday, November 12, 2015 Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Wine and cheese reception, 5:00 – 5:45 pm Talk by Anne and Michael Spalter Explorations of the New Order: Arranging Space Thursday, November 12, 2015 SCGP Room 103, 5:45 pm Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of … Read more
Fall 2015 – Seminar Series: Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland systems.
Organized by: Nikita Nekrasov, Alexander Turbiner and Alexander Abanov. Timing: Spring 2015/Fall 2015 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, … Read more
SCGP Weekly Talks – Fall 2015
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 are … Read more
Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) October 1-2 2015
General Public Lecture Thursday, October 1, 2015 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00 pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 5:45 pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title: “How Bacteria Talk To Each Other” Abstract: Bacteria communicate with one another using small chemical molecules that they release into the environment. These molecules travel from cell … Read more
Seminar in Topology and Symplectic Geometry
Seminar in Topology and Symplectic Geometry Fall 2015, Location Math Tower 5-127 or SCGP 313, Thursday 1PM: (09/03/2015) Michael Sullivan, UMass (Amherst) Legendrian invariants constructed using regular cell decompositions of surfaces, (09/10/2015) N/A N/A (09/17/2015) Kenji Fukaya, Simons Center, Stony Brook SO(3)-Floer homology of 3-manifolds with boundary (09/24/2015) Marco Farinati, Universidad de Buenos Aires Link … Read more
Fall 2015 Art Crawl at the Simons Center Gallery
Join us for the Fall 2015 Art Crawl at Stony Brook University! The Art Crawl is a free event with guided tours of all the Stony Brook University campus galleries. TOUR 1: Thursday, September 10, 2015, from 3 to 5 pm Tour 1 begins at the Skylight Gallery in the Charles B. Wang Center and ends at the … Read more
