The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the latest issue of SCGP News, a biannual publication which reflects the Center’s mission, scientific activities and cultural events. SCGP-Newsletter-XVII-SpringSummer-2021Download
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The Simons Center 10th Anniversary
By Maria Guetter, Maria Shtilmark and Lorraine Walsh On November 9, 2020, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a special symposium and luncheon at the Center. The SCGP was officially founded in 2008 and the physical building’s inauguration was on November 9, 2010. Thus, this special commemoration marked […]
Celebrating John Milnor
By Simon Donaldson, Permanent Faculty Member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Photo courtesy Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University
Statistical Physics, Neural Networks and Combinatorial Optimization
By Michael R. Douglas, Affiliate Faculty, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Photo courtesy Michael R. Douglas
Milestones and Prizes
By Kenji Fukaya, Permanent Faculty Member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation awards the acclaimed, international Wolf Prize to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world. In 2020, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics was awarded jointly to Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) and Simon Donaldson (SCGP). In this article, Kenji Fukaya […]
Della Pietra Lecture Series
By Luis Álvarez-Gaumé Manjul Bhargava. Photo: Joshua Klein The Della Pietra Lecture Series commenced in 2011 with a generous donation from the Della Pietra families. The series aims to bring world-renowned scientists to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to enhance the intellectual activity of the Center and bring greater awareness of recent and […]
A New Collider in our Backyard
US Electron Ion Collider to be Built at Brookhaven National Laboratory By Abhay Deshpande, Professor, Stony Brook University; Director, EIC Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory Figure 1: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory shown above will provide the initial infrastructure for the new US Electron Ion Collider. Recent news and excitement On […]
From Hourglass to Black Holes: A Conversation with Mark Mezei, Interview by Zohar Komargodski
Zohar Komargodski, physicist, is a permanent faculty member at SCGP. Mark Mezei, physicist, is the inaugural research associate professor at SCGP. All previous postdoctoral positions at SCGP have been research assistant professors. To watch the video, please visit: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?id=4493 An excerpt, as published in SCGP News Vol XIV, can be found below: Mark Mezei. Photo: […]
Mapping the Universe
By Marilena Loverde Assistant Professor of Physics C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Stony Brook University
A Dialogue Between a Struggling Student and his Advisor, Eugenio Calabi
By Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, Stony Brook University I met Professor Eugenio Calabi in the Fall of 1989, a couple of months after I arrived on the University of Pennsylvania campus. We hit it off quite nicely, as he was a zealous lecturer and loved to go to the blackboard, while I was […]
