Columbia/Stony Brook Probability Day

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

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

Flows of Reflectivity

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

Artist and Scientist Talk: Flows of Reflectivity

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

Artist Talk: Daniel Rozin’s Digital Interactive Art

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

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