Organized by: Chris Herzog, Vladimir Korepin and Bruno Nachtergaele. This workshop is organized in connection to the SCGP program on Entanglement and Dynamical Systems. Quantum entanglement is a continuing source of inspiration and progress in physics and mathematics that cuts across traditional boundaries separating different disciplines. In this workshop, we would like to bring together … Read more
Fall 2016 Art Crawls The Simons Center Gallery will be participating in the Fall 2016 Art Crawl, a free event with guided tours of Stony Brook University’s galleries. A variety of art will be exhibited, including work from international artists, Stony Brook students, and artists who work in math and the sciences. This is a … Read more
The Simons Center Art Program Lecture Series presents a talk by Laurie Anderson on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 5:45 pm in the Simons Center Auditorium with a reception beginning at 5:00 pm in the SCGP Lobby. Tickets are no longer for sale; there will be a small quantity of tickets available at the front door. Remaining … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to announce: The Winners of the Fourth Annual Science Playwriting Competition A Staged Reading of the Winning Plays, to be held Wednesday, November 2 The Fifth Annual Science Playwriting Competition Stony Brook University is at the forefront in … Read more
Organized by: Daniel Huybrechts, Ljudmila Kamenova, Emanuele Macri, Eyal Markman The Chow group of an algebraic variety encodes information about its algebraic cycles up to rational equivalence. The study of Chow groups is intimately related to the study of the derived categories of coherent sheaves, as illustrated, for example, by recent results on rational points … Read more
RESOUND Thursday, September 8, – Friday, October 28, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh with Margaret Schedel and Joo Yun Lee RESOUND Featuring the work of Memo Akten, Sougwen Chung, Seth Cluett, Yoon Chung Han, Carsten Nicolai, Jess Rowland Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center … Read more
Simons Center Gallery + Art Program Guest Speaker Dr. David H. Shoemaker Director MIT LIGO Laboratory; Leader, Advanced LIGO; Senior Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute Realizing Einstein’s Dream: Observing the Signature of Dynamic Space-time Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:45 pm Simons Center Auditorium 103 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. David … Read more
Organized By: Terry Gannon, David Ginzburg, Axel Kleinschmidt, Stephen D. Miller, Daniel Persson, and Boris Pioline Dates: August 29 – September 2, 2016 The purpose of this workshop is to kick-start a 6-week program on the interface between number theory, representation theory and string theory. Specifically the aim is to investigate connections between string amplitudes, … Read more
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
ArtSci Lecture Series Programmed by Lorraine Walsh Discovering Where Art, Science & the Humanities Meet Lecture by Valerie Gonzalez Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 4:30PM, SCGP 102 ISLAMIC AND EAST ASIAN CERAMIC ART IN WORLD-CLASS MUSEUMS: COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES OF DISPLAY The West and East’s ongoing encounter with global consumer culture through which different worlds … Read more
