Zohar Komargodski, physicist, and permanent faculty member at SCGP sits down with Mark Mezei, physicist, the inaugural research associate professor at SCGP. All previous postdoctoral positions at SCGP have been research assistant professors.
Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook Mathematics Department, conducted an interview with Eugenio Calabi. This interview is partly intended as a celebration of the recent award of the Veblen Prize to Simons Center and Stony Brook faculty members Simon Donaldson, Xiuxiong Chen, and Song Sun but will also help us remember Calabi’s personal role in the story.
Spenta R. Wadia is Founding Director and Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India. His main research interests are in elementary particle physics, string theory and quantum gravity. Here is an excerpt from an interview during Spenta’s visit to SCGP.
Dr. Cumrun Vafa sits down with Maria Shtilmark after receiving the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics along with Drs. Joseph Polchinski and Andrew Strominger for his research in transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity.
Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Director of Energy Research, Oxford University and President SESAME Council, has a conversation with Maria Shtilmark following his Della Pietra lectures at the Center.
Simons Center Chief Administrative Office has a conversation with Conversation with Eliezer Rabinovici, Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Chair of Science Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maria Shtilmark sits down with the center’s new Director, Luis Alvarez-Gaume, theoretical physicist, who has come full circle upon returning to Stony Brook where he originally obtained his PhD.
Conversation with Michael Green, FRS, Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a fellow in Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Interview by Maria Shtilmark
Reflections On How This All Came About: A Conversation with Simons Center Director John Morgan on how he became the Center’s Founding Director. Interview by Maria Shtilmark.
Conversation with Martin Hairer, Regius Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Warwickorganizer and sole organizer of the Simons Center workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
