A Three-Day School and Research Workshop Preparatory Meeting for the 2027 Summer School on the Theory of Atoms Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) October 7–9, 2026 Overview Birational geometry has recently acquired a new and unexpected source of invariants. Rather than being extracted from the geometry of a variety directly, these invariants are … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Wednesday, May 13 Lecture at 5:00pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception, 4:15pm, Simons Center lobby Title: The TRUTH About Quantum Computing … Read more
Columbia University, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Mathematics Department: Probability Day Organized by Ivan Corwin (Columbia) and Evita Nestoridi (Stony Brook) Schedule of talks *All talks will take place in SCGP Room 313* 11:00AM: Opening Discussion 11:15AM: Talk by Dominik Schmid, “Random walk approximation for the stationary distribution of the open … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Persi Diaconis (Stanford) All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Tuesday, March 24 Lecture at 4:30pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Wine and cheese reception, 3:45pm, Simons Center lobby Title: UNDERSTANDING COINCIDENCES Abstract: Coincidences astound us. … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live Common Title and Abstract “The Theory of Computation” Speaker: Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton In this series of three (independent) lectures, I will explain … Read more
Talks will talk place on Thursdays at 2:00pm in the 5th floor SCGP common room, unless stated otherwise in the announcement. Schedule: Date Name Title Abstract Sept 04 2025 Alexander Frenkel Confusions about Matrices and Black Holes and Emergent Gravity I will selfishly co-opt this journal club to talk about a list of questions (and … Read more
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
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
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
A discussion about the Oppenheimer film led by Gregory Falkovich, Pollack Professorial Chair in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science Friday, October 18, 2024 1:30pm SCGP Room 102 Dr. Falkovich will give a popular explanation of the basic physics which let us better see the human drama of war, peace and unpredictable … Read more