22nd Simons Physics Summer Workshop: July 28 – August 15, 2025

Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Seventeenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-second in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. More information to follow in January 2025.  

Workshop: Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 8-12, 2026

Organized by: Vincenzo Alba Jerome Dubail Mari-Carmen Banuls Aditi Mitra Anatoli Polkovniko The workshop will foster interactions among experts in quantum and classical simulation methods, quantum information, and tractable systems, to assess the state-of-the art of these questions, and propose benchmarks that may help answer it. First, the workshop will stimulate a complexity-informed exploration of … Read more

Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 1 – July 2, 2026

Organized by: Vincenzo Alba Jerome Dubail Mari-Carmen Banuls Aditi Mitra Anatoli Polkovnikov Triggered by unprecedented control in cold-atom experiments, trapped ion setups, or superconducting platforms, the rise of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices urges theoretical physicists, computational scientists and mathematicians to quantitatively assess the complexity of quantum many-body dynamics and quantify the computational capabilities … 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

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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