upcoming events
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to present the 2025 Science Playwriting Competition Staged Readings of the Winning Plays. First Place: The Physics of Fiction By Alex Dremann Second Place: Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter Third Place: Mother of Chemistry by Rex … Read more
Art Crawl: Friday, April 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Free guided tours of Stony Brook University art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges. The art crawl offers tours of five galleries this spring—visiting each … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Monday April 21, at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby Title: Where Does Mathematics Come From? Abstract: … Read more
Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more
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
Organized by: John Anderson (Stony Brook) Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton) Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook) Jonathan Luk (Stanford) Recent years have seen many exciting advances in the study of PDEs. Experience has shown that ideas developed in the context of certain PDEs can often be adapted to say something interesting about other equations as well. Even when … Read more
Organized by: Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University) Robin Karlsson (CERN) Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria) Hong Liu (MIT) Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin) There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can … Read more
Organized by: Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University) Robin Karlsson (CERN) Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria) Hong Liu (MIT) Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin) There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can … Read more
Art Crawl: Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 1:00 – 3:30 pm Free guided tours of diverse art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges. The art crawl offers tours of four galleries this spring—visiting each for 30 minutes. … Read more
Seminar in Topology and Symplectic Geometry Fall 2015, Location Math Tower 5-127 or SCGP 313, Thursday 1PM: (09/03/2015) Michael Sullivan, UMass (Amherst) Legendrian invariants constructed using regular cell decompositions of surfaces, (09/10/2015) N/A N/A (09/17/2015) Kenji Fukaya, Simons Center, Stony Brook SO(3)-Floer homology of 3-manifolds with boundary (09/24/2015) Marco Farinati, Universidad de Buenos Aires Link … Read more
