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
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
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton General Public Lecture Wednesday, November 12 Lecture at 4:00pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Wine and cheese reception, 5:00pm, Simons Center lobby Following the lecture and reception, there will be a public concert by … Read more
Columbia University, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Mathematics Department: Probability Day Organized by Ivan Corwin (Columbia) and Evita Nestoridi (Stony Brook) Schedule of talks *All talks will take place in SCGP Room 102* 11:00am – 12:00pm Speaker: Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia; Clay Mathematics Institute) Title: Hitting time mixing for the random transposition … Read more
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
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
Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more
Flows of Reflectivity Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and Karina Yager Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Flows of Reflectivity unites artistic and scientific perspectives to examine glacier change and the dynamics of reflectivity through photography and video. Merging art and science, the exhibit deepens our understanding of … Read more
Daniel Rozin Daniel Rozin’s Digital Interactive Art Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 For almost three decades, Daniel Rozin has been exploring interactive mechanisms of reflection and perception. He creates and writes custom software with mechanical engineering while utilizing a wide range of material for installation, sculpture, and screens. Within … Read more
