Effective January 2, 2018, the Simons Center Cafe has transitioned to new management under the direction of Executive Chef Eric Werner, of Lessing’s. We welcome you to come and try a new taste experience! The new Simons Center Cafe will continue to serve breakfast and lunch daily (Monday – Friday) from 8:30am – 11:30am and 11:30am … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics wishes to congratulate Director Luis Álvarez-Gaumé for being appointed Distinguished Severo Ochoa Visiting Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Madrid Autonoma University. The Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) in Madrid hosts a Distinguished Severo Ochoa Visiting Professor program, funded by its Severo Ochoa Excellence Grant from the Spanish … Read more
The Selection Committee of the 2018 Sackler Prize in the physical sciences has decided to award the 2018 Sackler Prize in the field of “Quantum Field Theory (QFT) – Novel Developments and Applications” to Professor Zohar Komargodski from the Weizmann Institute, Israel and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, US, and to Professor Pedro … Read more
Effective Monday October 2, the Simons Center Cafe has transitioned to new management under the direction of Executive Chef Lynne Gigliotti. We welcome you to come and try a new taste experience! The new Simons Center Cafe will continue to serve breakfast and lunch daily (Monday – Friday) from 8:30am – 10:30am and 11:30am – 2:30pm. … Read more
WINGS Lecture Series Presents: 10+ Years of ADVANCE at Michigan Tech, Jacqueline E. Huntoon, PhD Michigan Technological University September 21 (Thursday), 2017 12:00 – 1:00 pm SIMONS CENTER AUDITORIUM Michigan Tech is a STEM-dominant PhD-granting institution located in Michigan’s rural upper peninsula. The University has been undertaking formal efforts to increase the representation of women in … Read more
Project Meeting: SUSY Bootstrap November 6 – 8, 2017 For more information about the Simons Collaboration please visit their website: http://bootstrapcollaboration.com/
Tuesday September 5, 2017 5:30pm Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics In the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the basic laws of Physics in the infinitely small – and the infinitely large – and how the two are intimately connected. New windows … Read more
Young-Kee Kim Young-Kee Kim, an experimental particle physicist, is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. She has devoted much of her research to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying two of the most massive particles (the W boson and the … Read more
This Workshop is the tenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fifteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s Summer Workshop will focus on strings and QFT without supersymmetry, including non-supersymmetric vacuum constructions in string theory, dualities in nonsupersymmetric theories in 3 and other dimensions, issues … Read more
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Lecture: 11:00 am, Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium Title: “Where will our energy come from in the future?” Abstract: Global demand for energy is rising. Today, 80% is met by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). Will demand go on rising? Will fossil fuels continue to dominate? Will … Read more
