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Congratulations to Simons Donaldson, Winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics: Symposium Panel Videos Now Available

By on June 23, 2014 in Outreach

View videos from the mathematics track at the Breakthrough Prize Symposium: The symposium was held November 10, 2014 at Stanford University and co-hosted by UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley. Panel: Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie, Terence Tao, Richard Taylor and Yuri Milner (http://media.scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?f=20141215_2_qtp.mp4) Watch Simon’s video here:  http://media.scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?f=20141215_3_qtp.mp4 Simon Donaldson, permanent member of the Simons […]

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Dr. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, February 26-27, 2013

By on February 24, 2013 in Della Pietra lecture series, Outreach, public talks, talks-legacy

What Can Big Data Teach Us About Society and About Ourselves? Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web […]

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Dr. Andrei Linde, Stanford University, March 11-12, 2013

By on February 22, 2013 in Della Pietra lecture series, Outreach, talks-legacy

UNIVERSE OR MULTIVERSE?   Andrei Linde studied physics at Moscow State University, was a member at CERN and is currently a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is an author of more than 250 papers on particle physics, phase transitions and cosmology. As a founding author of the inflationary universe scenario, he has written […]

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NOWHERE DIFFERENTIABLE: February 12-28, 2013

By on January 17, 2013 in art program, art program events, art program talks, Outreach, videos

February 12, 2013 – 6 pm pre-lecture reception in gallery 5:30 pm Lecture by Ethno-Mathematician and Author of African Fractals Ron Eglash, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute February 20, 2013 – 6 pm pre-lecture reception in gallery 5:30 pm Artist-in-Residence: Saya Woolfalk will give a talk about her work and residency. She will be working on campus  […]

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Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena at Global Scales

By on January 13, 2013 in Outreach

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Jon Kleinberg, February 26-27, 2013 Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and […]

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Probabilistic Models for Cascading Processes in Networks

By on January 12, 2013 in Outreach

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Jon Kleinberg, February 26-27, 2013 Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web […]

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Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Robert Kirshner, October 2-3 2012

By on October 4, 2012 in Della Pietra lecture series, Outreach, talks-legacy

Dr. Robert Kirshner, Photo credit: Lynn Barry Hetherington Lecture 1 ‘A Nobel Surprise: The Accelerating Universe’ (This lecture is geared for high school and undergraduate students) Title: “A Nobel Surprise: The Accelerating Universe” by Dr. Robert Kirshner Time: Tuesday October 2nd at 11:00 am Place: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics room 103 [box, type=”download”]Watch […]

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