Organized by: Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science), Rouven Essig (Stony Brook), Maxim Pospelov (University of Minnesota) If you wish to apply for a talk please send a title and an abstract to Ranny Budnik. Continuing progress in collider physics and dark matter searches in the past few decades have put significant pressure on several … Read more
November 22, 5:45 pm, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Della Pietra Family Auditorium Preceded by reception at 5 pm in the Simons Center Lobby Title: Dirac and the Quantum Mechanics Nobel Prizes in 1933Mats Larsson is Professor of Physics at Stockholm University and director of the AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm, which is a joint scientific center between the … Read more
Organized by: Balt van Rees, David Simmons-Duffin, Slava Rychkov, Silviu Pufu, David Poland and Leonardo Rastel
Progress and Open Problems 2019: September 8-11, 2019, SCGP, Stony Brook For more information please visit https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-open-problems-2019-september-8-11-2019-scgp-stony-brook/
Congratulations to Dr. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, distinguished professor of physics in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, and long-time friend and collaborator with the SCGP. It was announced today that van Nieuwenhuizen shares the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Sergio Ferrara of CERN and Daniel Z. Freedman of … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr. Adam Riess, Astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Riess is widely known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes and shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is … Read more
“There’s a balance of amusing and interesting lives, always presented with a great sense of humor, and you can see a trace of them in our community,” says Alvarez-Gaume. Read the full article, as it appears in Newsday, here: https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/big-bang-theory-long-island-physics-1.30818036
Organized by: Hrant Hakobyan, Kirill Lazebnik, Raanan Schul, Scientific committee: Peter Jones, Misha Lyubich, Dennis Sullivan The workshop will bring together experts in Analysis, Dynamics, Geometry and Probability. These fields have had fruitful interaction in the past and present. One example is the connection between Brownian motion, harmonic measure, analysis of singular integrals, and geometric properties of … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is thrilled to congratulate Karen Uhlenbeck for having been awarded the 2019 Abel Prize. The prize, created by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, recognizes contributions to the field of mathematics that are of extraordinary depth and influence, and is generally viewed as the mathematics equivalent of … Read more
The mission of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is to further fundamental research in geometry and theoretical physics, specifically at the interface of these two fields. The Center supports collaborative research at the frontiers of mathematics and physics, and is committed to sharing this knowledge with the broader community. As government funding for … Read more
