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
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture *NOTE this event has been rescheduled to Wednesday 2/14 due to inclement weather: Wednesday, February 14 at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – … Read more
Thursday October 19, 1:00pm in SCGP room 102 Speaker: Thomas Allison Title: Attosecond Optics and Attosecond Physics: the Good, the Bad, and the Maybe Abstract: In this lecture I will discuss the work recognized by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Pierre Agostini, Anne L’Huillier, and Ferenc Krausz for their pioneering work on … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Mathematician Ian Stewart, University of Warwick General Public Lecture Date and Time: Monday, October 2 at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby TITLE: All the World’s a Network Abstract: Networks are ubiquitous in today’s … Read more
Speaker: Professor Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto) “Transcendence in Algebraic Geometry” Tuesday, November 7. Title: Transcendence of period integrals over function fields. ABSTRACT Wednesday, November 8. Title: Definable o-minimal structures and applications to Periods. ABSTRACT Thursday, November 9. Title: Unlikely Intersection problems and Functional Transcendence. ABSTRACT All lectures will take place from 4:00 – 5:00pm … Read more
C.N. Yang Colloquium Series Presents Dr. Serge Haroche, 2012 Nobel Laureate Quantum Science with Giant Atoms September 19, 2023 Coffee/Tea at 3:45pm, Simons Center Lobby Lecture, 4:15pm, Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 This talk will be live streamed at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live
Mini-course by Gregory Falkovich September 26 – November 28, 2023 on Tuesdays at 2:30pm in room 313 Title: Introduction to Information Theory Selected Subjects: Measuring Uncertainty Mutual Information and Entanglement Entropy, Redundancy of Language and Genetic Code Information is Life and Money Theory of Mind – Active Inference Information in Quantum Mechanics and Statistics
