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DANIEL ROZIN: FrameRates
DANIEL ROZIN: FrameRates October 21–December 10, 2024 Curated by Lorraine Walsh Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Artist Talk: Daniel Rozin’s Digital Interactive Art. SCGP Room 102 The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is honored to present a … Read more
The Third Colloquium of the C.N. Yang Colloquium Series: Prof David Gross
Title: A Half Century of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) Speaker: Prof David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 September 17, 2024 Coffee/Tea: 3:00pm, Simons Center Lobby Lecture: 3:45pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Simons Center Room 103
Director’s Note
In preparing this Newsletter, we were collecting a tally of the activities over the last year, and those for the months to come, when we received the shattering news that Jim Simons had passed away. He was one of the exceptional few that combined several lives into one. It is difficult to imagine a single … Read more
Simons Foundation: Remembering Jim
Jim loved mathematics, science research, and education. In lieu of gifts or flowers, the Simons family asks that well-wishers consider a donation to some groups, among them the SCGP; whom all in their own way advance the frontiers of mathematics and the basic sciences: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/observing
LOOKING AHEAD: Arriving at the Center
Please take a moment to go through this section for any matters pertaining to your arrival at SCGP. INFORMATION ABOUT SIMONS CENTER, DIRECTIONS, AND TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION ABOUT INVITATIONS, VISAS, GENERAL VISIT, AND TRAVEL SUPPORT INFORMATION ABOUT INTERNET, WI-FI, AND STREAMING
LOOKING AHEAD: Preparing for your Program or Workshop Visit
As a confirmed participant in one of our many events, visitors can explore all options listed below in order to plan ahead for their visit. Please feel free to contact us if you have further questions that are not answered in the sections below.
Artist Talk: Ander Mikalson: “Score for the Big Bang”
Ander Mikalson Score for the Big Bang Thursday, November 9, 2024. 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Ander Mikalson discusses her eight-minute Score for A Big Bang featuring speculative sounds the cataclysmic Big Bang might have generated, in the form of a musical score. The composition and performance are sparce, highlighting choral voices and a pipe … Read more
Happy Holidays from the Simons Center
Wishing you good health, peace, and creativity throughout the New Year
The Simons Center Congratulates Alexander Zamolodchikov, Co-recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair Alexander Zamolodchikov has been named co-recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the award with John Cardy, All Souls College, University of Oxford, “For profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different … Read more