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For Visitors: Cultural and Educational Offerings at Stony Brook University

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Calendar of Upcoming Events Visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/calendar Stony Brook University Calendar of Upcoming Events Visit: calendar.stonybrook.edu Staller Center Zuccaire Gallery Events Visit: https://calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/zuccaire/ Staller Center for the Arts Full Schedule of Events: Films, concerts, movies and more – please visit: www.stallercenter.com Charles B Wang Center Full Schedule of Events:  Films, concerts, movies … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Mohammed Abouzaid, Recipient of the New Horizons in Math Prize

Long-time visitor of the Simons Center, Dr. Mohammed Abouzaid, has recently been awarded the 2017 New Horizons in Math prize. The 2017 award recipients mark the Breakthrough Prize‘s 5th consecutive year celebrating top achievements in science. The New Horizons in Mathematics Prize was awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics:   … Read more

Dr. Cumrun Vafa Wins 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Simons Center is pleased to formally congratulate Dr. Cumrun Vafa and all of the winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics: Dr. Joseph Polchinski, Professor in the Department of Physics and Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Dr. Andrew Strominger, Director of the Center … Read more

SCGP Spring 2016 Newsletter

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the latest issue of SCGP News, a biannual publication which reflects the Center’s mission, scientific and cultural events. In this issue the Founding Director, John Morgan, recounts the Center’s early days, the power of transversality, and more. SCGP Professor Simon Donaldson contributes an elegant … Read more

The SCGP Seeks Research Assistant Professors/Postdocs for Fall 2018

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has openings for several Research Assistant Professors (Postdocs) in the coming academic year in both mathematics and physics. The position is for a fixed term of three years with an expected start date of September 1, 2018.  Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is an … Read more

Congratulations 2016 Nobel prize winners in physics: David J. Thouless, J. Michael Kosterlitz and F. Duncan M. Haldane

On behalf of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, we would like to congratulate 2016 Nobel prize winners in physics: David J. Thouless, J. Michael Kosterlitz and F. Duncan M. Haldane. The Nobel prize was awarded “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”. These topics are very close to … Read more

C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics 50th Anniversary Symposium

The C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics 50th Anniversary Symposium will be held from October 9-10, 2016 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. For more information please visit the YITP website at http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/www/

Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles II

The Simons Center will be hosting the Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles II Workshop. This event will take place June 11-12, 2016. For more information please take a look at their website: http://schapos.people.uic.edu/SpectralhiggsII.html.  

Third Annual Summer School: Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem: June 20 – 24, 2016

The Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem will hold its third annual summer school June 20-24 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. 55 collaboration members and guests will participate. Organized by collaboration scientist Steve White, the school will focus on new developments in the density matrix renormalization group, tensor networks … Read more