Bridging Classic and Contemporary Perspectives on Open Quantum Systems – May 4-8, 2026

Organized by: Zhen Bi, Penn State University Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Zhu-Xi Luo (Georgia Institute of Technology) Thomas Scaffidi (University of California) Advances in the ability to create and dynamically control quantum many-body systems have catalyzed new and theoretically profound questions about collective quantum phenomena in real-world conditions. For instance, while the … Read more

Workshop: Random Geometry in Math and Physics – April 13-17, 2026

Organizers: ● Timothy Budd (Radboud University) ● Frank Ferrari (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) ● Scott Sheffield (MIT) ● Herman Verlinde (Princeton University) ● Yilin Wang (IHES / ETH Zürich) ● Zhenbin Yang (Tsinghua University) The study of low dimensional models for quantum gravity, in particular Liouville and JT gravity, is at the heart of … Read more

Conformal Geometry, Einstein Metrics, and General Relativity – January 26-30, 2026

Organized by: Marcus Khuri (Stony Brook University) Jaroslaw Kopinski (University of California at Davis) Ramiro Lafuente (University of Queensland) Marika Taylor (University of Birmingham) Andrew Waldron (University of California at Davis) The theory of General Relativity is founded upon on the mathematics of Einstein metrics and conformal geometries. This workshop will bring together mathematicians and … Read more

Modern Musings on Monopoles – October 20-24, 2025

Organized by: Chris Kottke (New College of Florida, USA) Nuno M. Romão (IHES, France) Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University, USA) Magnetic monopoles are smooth configurations of fields in nonabelian gauge theories that behave as sources of magnetic flux from a distance. They were introduced by ’t Hooft and Polyakov in independent work published 50 years … Read more

Double Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model: From Gravity to Many-Body Quantum Chaos – May 11-15, 2026

Organized by: Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute) Barbara Dietz (Institute for Basic Science) Yiyang Jia (Weizmann Institute) Henry Lin (Princeton University Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook University) The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has proved to be a fertile ground for many areas of modern physics such as black holes, holography, condensed matter physics and many-body quantum chaos. In … Read more

Supergravity at 50 – June 2-4, 2026

Organized by: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Dan Freedman Supergravity is intrinsically associated with Stony Brook. It may well be the most significant physics discovery in the entire history of the Yang Institute. Since 1976, many researchers have worked to generalize the basic theory we found and apply it to the physics of elementary particles and gravity. … Read more

Timelike Boundaries in Classical and Quantum Gravity – December 8-12, 2025

Organized by: Michael Anderson (Stony Brook University) Dionysios Anninos (King’s College London) Damian Galante (King’s College London) Edgar Shaghoulian (UC Santa Cruz) Eva Silverstein (Stanford University) Asymptotic boundaries play a crucial role in the theory of general relativity. Foundational examples include the null boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes and the conformal boundary of Anti-de Sitter … Read more

50 years of the black hole information paradox: November 3 -7 , 2025

Organized by: Niayesh Afshordi, Emil Martinec and Samir D. Mathur 50 years ago Stephen Hawking published his famous paper arguing that the evaporation of black holes violated quantum unitarity. In the intervening decades, the puzzle, known as the black hole information paradox, has become an intense focus of interest. However, different parts of the community … Read more

50 years of the black hole information paradox: October 6 – November 21, 2025

Organized by: Niayesh Afshordi, Emil Martinec and Samir D. Mathur 50 years ago Stephen Hawking published his famous paper arguing that the evaporation of black holes violated quantum unitarity. In the intervening decades, the puzzle, known as the black hole information paradox, has become an intense focus of interest. Yet different parts of the physics … Read more

22nd Simons Physics Summer Workshop: Future pathways for fundamental physics – July 28 – August 15, 2025

Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Seventeenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-second in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. This year’s Simons summer workshop in physics will explore future … Read more