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
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
Jim loved mathematics, science research, and education. In lieu of gifts or flowers, the Simons family asks that well-wishers consider a donation to some groups, among them the SCGP; whom all in their own way advance the frontiers of mathematics and the basic sciences: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/observing
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The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University seeks applications for: one Tenured Professor position in Theoretical Physics; this candidate will also be Tenured Professors at the YITP/Department of Physics and Astronomy. For more information please visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/41119 one Tenured Professor position in Mathematics; the candidate will also be a Tenured Professor … Read more
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
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Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair Alexander Zamolodchikov has been named co-recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the award with John Cardy, All Souls College, University of Oxford, “For profound contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory, with diverse and far-reaching applications in different … Read more
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