workshops

Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: September 6-15, 2016

Inaugural Conference: Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics, September 6-9, 2016. School: Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy, September 12-15, 2016. Organized by: Bobby Acharya, Robert Bryant, Simon Donaldson, Mark Haskins and Dave Morrison This event is organized by the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy and Geometry. For more information please visit there website … Read more

Simons Summer Workshop: July 5 to July 29, 2016

This Workshop is the ninth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fourteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s summer workshop will focus on the role of topology in physics with particular emphasis in recent exciting developments in the context of condensed matter systems as well … Read more

Third Annual Summer School: Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem: June 20 – 24, 2016

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

Between Dynamics and Spectral Theory: June 6 – 10, 2016

Organized by: William Yessen and Zhenghe Zhang Dates: June 6 – 10, 2016 The study of 1D discrete Schroedinger equation lies across physics, spectral theory, and dynamical systems. It models the motion of a quantum particle in a disordered medium. The evolution of motion is studied via the spectral theory of the Schroedinger operator. For … Read more

New perspectives on Higgs bundles, branes and quantization: June 13 – 17, 2016

Organized by: Lara B. Anderson, David Baraglia, Laura P. Schaposnik, and Vivek Shende Dates: June 13 – 17, 2016 The aim of this workshop is to connect recent developments and open questions in the study of branes in the moduli space of Higgs bundles with other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics: differential and algebraic … Read more

Recent Developments in the Mathematical study of Gauge Theory: October 17 – 21, 2016

Organized by: Simon Donaldson, Kenji Fukaya, and John Morgan, Recent Developments in the Mathematical Study of Gauge Theory: The workshop will focus on geometrical and analytical aspects Gauge Theories beyond the `classical’ cases of SU(2)- and SO(3)-gauge theory in dimensions 3 and 4. Topics will include gauge theory on complex manifolds and on manifolds with … Read more

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: May 16 – 20, 2016

Organized by Martin Hairer Stochastic partial differential equations allow to describe phenomena that vary in both space and time and are subject to random influences. They arise naturally in a variety of contexts, including the description of the large-scale behaviour of random systems in statistical mechanics, the modelling of forward interest rates, the description of … Read more

Generalized Geometry & T-dualities: May 9 -13, 2016

Organized by Marco Gualtieri, Nigel Hitchin, Ctirad Klimcik, Yolanda Lozano, Eoin Ó Colgáin, Martin Rocek, Konstantinos Sfetsos, and Daniel Thompson Dates: May 9 – 13, 2016 Over the last few years we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in geometrical facets of T-duality, with developments coming thick and fast on a number of fronts. The … Read more

Geometry of Quantum States in Condensed Matter Systems: April 18 – 22, 2016

Organized by: Sasha Abanov, Tankut Can, Anton Kapustin and Paul Wiegmann This workshop marks the start of the program “Geometry of Quantum Hall States” at the SCGP. While the program mostly focuses on recent advances in the geometric approach to the quantum Hall effect, the purpose of the workshop is to encourage a broader discussion … Read more

Flat Holography: April 4 – 8, 2016

Organized by Arjun Bagchi, Glenn Barnich, Stephane Detournay, Daniel Grumiller, and Joan Simon Dates: April 4 – 8, 2016 Over the last fifteen years our understanding of quantum gravity in string theory has been transformed by the discovery and exploitation of D-branes and the AdS/CFT correspondence in string theory. The holographic principle, positing massive reduction … Read more