By Charles L. KaneChristopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics University of Pennsylvania Matter can arrange itself in the most ingenious ways. In addition to the solid, liquid and gas phases that are familiar in classical physics, electronic phases of matter with both useful and exotic properties are made possible by quantum mechanics. In the … Read more
Grand environmental challenges face our world, and Stony Brook University is well positioned to help solve some of them. We intend to propose a new Center focusing on solutions addressing Grand Challenge problems of the Earth environment utilizing campus-wide interdisciplinary faculty expertise. This workshop will shape the vision for this new campus-wide, environment-focused Center. Friday … Read more
The Simons Center wishes to extend our heartfelt congratulations to faculty member Simon Donaldson on being elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This is yet one more wonderful recognition of the deep impact Simon’s work has had on science.
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
