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Congratulations to Kenji Fukaya, Recipient of the 2025 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2025 is awarded to Kenji Fukaya, Former SCGP Senior Faculty, and Professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) and the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University, PRC, for his pioneering work on symplectic geometry, especially for envisioning the existence of a category — nowadays … 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

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Congratulations to Samson Shatashvili; 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize Recipient

We are very happy to congratulate a former professor of the SCGP, Samson Shatashvili, for this prestigious award recognizing his important work in theoretical physics. More precisely, according to the APS: Samson L. Shatashvili, 2025 recipient “For clever use of various techniques in studying symmetry in quantum field theory, in particular, for work with L. … Read more

The SCGP seeks Research Assistant Professors/Postdocs for Fall 2025

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has openings for Research Assistant Professors (Postdocs) in the coming academic year. These are three-year, fixed term positions with an expected start date of September 1, 2025. Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is an endowed research organization devoted to furthering fundamental knowledge in geometry and … Read more