SCGP News Volume XVI – Fall/Winter 2020
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 activities and cultural events.
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Chris Gerig Lecture Series
The following talks will be held at the Simons Center in Room 102. Live streaming is available for virtual participants here: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/live Virtual Lecture 1: Wednesday 6/2312:00-13:00 EDT14:00-15:00 EDT 1) Introductory ECH and cobordism map difficultiesAbstract: In these two lectures I will introduce Embedded Contact Homology, a useful Floer theory for contact 3-manifolds, obtained by counting pseudoholomorphic curves … Read more
Dynamics of SCFTs and Special Functions: April 18-22, 2022
Organized by: Shlomo Sergei Razamat (Technion), Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) Recent years have seen significant progress in understanding the dynamics of supersymmetric quantum field theories in various space-time dimensions. This progress was partly due to the development of various localization techniques leading to exact computations of certain partition functions. Such computations can be expressed … Read more
Lecture Series by Daniel Jafferis: Mini-course on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix Models
The Simons Center is pleased to present a mini-course by Daniel Jafferis on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix Models Talks will be held daily from Monday June 7 – Thursday June 10 at 1:30pm in the SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium, room 103. This will be an in-person event for local attendees, video recordings will be streamed live … Read more
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: Progress and Open Problems: September 12-15, 2021
For more information please visit https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/
Simons Collaboration the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap: November 8-10, 2021
The Simons Center will be hosting the Simons Collaboration: the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap. For more information about this event please visit: http://bootstrapcollaboration.com.
Simons Center YouTube – Della Pietra Lecture Collection
The Simons Center’s popular science lecture series: “Della Pietra lecture series” are now available as a special collection on the Center’s YouTube channel. You can find it HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6pOFUNZzTMxqFKaRR53WvQ
Dynamics of SCFTs and Special Functions
Organized by: Shlomo Sergei Razamat and Masahito Yamazaki Recent years have seen significant progress in understanding the dynamics of supersymmetric quantum field theories in various space-time dimensions. This progress was partly due to the development of various localization techniques leading to exact computations of certain partition functions. Such computations can be expressed in terms of … Read more
Probability, integrability, and conformal invariance: August 23 – September 10, 2021
Organized by: Eldad Bettelheim (Hebrew University), Ilya Gruzberg (Ohio State University), Håkan Hedenmalm (KTH), Alisa Knizel (University of Chicago), Paul Wiegmann (Univ. of Chicago) In recent years, the convergence of several topics in mathematics and physics have led to exciting developments in the study of fundamental problems in field theory, statistical mechanics, and probability theory. … Read more
Talk by Kenji Fukaya | Harvard CMSA Math Science Literature Lecture Series
Harvard CMSA and Shing-Tung Yau are continuing to host a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars. All talks will take place virtually via Zoom. The next upcoming talk will be by Kenji Fukaya (Simons Center … Read more