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5th Simons Math Summer Workshop: New Developments in Birational Geometry: Atoms, Hodge Theory, and Physics July 5 – 23, 2027

Organized by: Leonardo Cavenaghi Ludmil Katzarkov Maxim Kontsevich Tony Pantev Birational geometry has recently acquired a new and unexpected source of invariants. Rather than being extracted from the geometry of a variety directly, they are read off from its quantum cohomology together with the Hodge-theoretic structures attached to it. The purpose of this event is … Read more

Public Lecture by Neil Turok, Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics: Thursday, June 25, 2026

Public Lecture: Neil Turok, Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh and Roger Penrose Distinguished Visiting Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Thursday, June 25 at 5:00pm, SCGP Room 103 Reception at 4:30pm Title: A Simpler Cosmology Abstract: Recent observations reveal surprising simplicity and order in the universe, on both the largest and smallest … Read more

Representation Theory, Geometry, and Mathematical Physics: A Conference in Honor of the 90th Birthday of A. A. Kirillov

May 26–27, 2026 Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Alexandre Alexandrovich Kirillov is one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His pioneering work on the orbit method — linking coadjoint orbits of Lie groups to unitary representations — transformed the landscape of representation theory and has had profound … Read more

Christina Sormani Selected as 2025 AAAS Fellow

Christina Sormani is one of only ten mathematicians selected as 2025 AAAS Fellow. She was honored for “distinguished contributions to the field of geometric analysis and the development of new notions of convergence to measure geometric stability with applications to mathematical general relativity.” She is on sabbatical from CUNY visiting SCGP for 2025-2026 Academic Year. … Read more

Stony Brook Lectures in Algebraic Geometry by Olivier Benoist (DMA ENS, Paris)

Stony Brook Lectures in Algebraic Geometry Speaker: Olivier Benoist (DMA ENS, Paris) Lecture Series Title: Sums of squares and algebraic cycles Lecture 1: Tuesday, October 28 at 4:00pm, SCGP Room 102 Title: Hilbert’s 17th Problem and Hodge Theory Lecture 2: Wednesday, October 29 at 4:00pm, SCGP Room 102 Title: The Optimality of Pfister’s Bound and the Wu Relations … Read more

Conference: Unsettling Intelligences: Politics of Reason through Art and AI

The Future Histories Studio at Stony Brook University and Guggenheim New York are collaborating to present a day-long symposium on October 24 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. This conference explores urgent questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the human, and is co-organized by Noam Segal, LG Electronics Associate … Read more

100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

100 Years of Quantum Mechanics EXHIBITION EXTENDED Curated by Lorraine Walsh Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5:00 pm The Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby Public Lecture Follows Reception God Plays Dice with the World: The Story of Quantum Mechanics by Giuseppe Mussardo, Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA (Trieste) … Read more

Workshop: Advancing Entangled X-Ray Photon Research. October 15-17, 2025

The First Workshop on Advancing Entangled X-Ray Photon Research will be held at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) at the Stony Book University the 15-17 of October 2025. Conference webpage: https://indico.global/event/14044/overview The scope of the workshop is be to exchange  knowledge, create collaborations,and shape the future of entangled X-ray photon research and its … Read more

Physics and mathematics of turbulence in different media: August 24 – October 9, 2026

Organized by: Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook) Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann) Vladimir Rosenhaus (CUNY) Vlad Vicol (NYU) The last decade has seen significant progress in the studies of turbulence, understood widely as a far-from-equilibrium state of a system with many degrees of freedom. This is due, in particular, to the two just-finished Simons collaborations, one on wave … Read more