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
Join Chef Paolo on Tuesday, December 6th at 6pm in the SCGP Cafe for the “Cuisine of France” cooking demonstration and tasting.
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 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
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
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/
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.
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
Organized by: Gregory Falkovich, Alexander Zamolodchikov and Leonid Levitov Fluid mechanics in two dimensions has wide range of applications and possesses unique mathematical properties which are far from being fully explored and used. Even laminar and regular flows in two dimensions are of great interest ranging from microfluidics to emerging hydrodynamics of current flows in … Read more
Organized by: Gregory Falkovich and Alexander Zamolodchikov Fluid mechanics in two dimensions has wide range of applications and possesses unique mathematical properties which are far from being fully explored and used. A landmark feature of turbulence in two dimensions is an inverse cascade, that is an appearance of large vortices and jets out of multi-scale … Read more