upcoming events
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Science Playwriting Competition 2026-27 Call for Plays Deadline for submission: September 14, 2026 Winners will be announced in early 2027. Contest is open to the general public. The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to announce a new … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Wednesday, May 13 Lecture at 5:00pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception, 4:15pm, Simons Center lobby Title: The TRUTH About Quantum Computing … Read more
Organized by: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University) Patrick Meade (Stony Brook University) Luis Alvarez-Gaume (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) This SCGP/YITP workshop celebrates the extraordinary scientific achievements of Professor George Sterman, a leading figure in theoretical physics whose contributions have fundamentally shaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the strong force. As a … Read more
100 Years of Quantum Mechanics EXHIBITION EXTENDED Curated by Lorraine Walsh Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5:00 pm The Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby Public Lecture Follows Reception God Plays Dice with the World: The Story of Quantum Mechanics by Giuseppe Mussardo, Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA (Trieste) … 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
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
Organized by: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Dan Freedman Sergio Ferrara Luis Alvarez-Gaume Advisory Committee: Hermann Nicolai Anna Ceresole Paul Townsend Antoine van Proeyen 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 … Read more
Organized by: Vincenzo Alba Jerome Dubail Mari-Carmen Banuls Aditi Mitra Anatoli Polkovnikov Triggered by unprecedented control in cold-atom experiments, trapped ion setups, or superconducting platforms, the rise of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices urges theoretical physicists, computational scientists and mathematicians to quantitatively assess the complexity of quantum many-body dynamics and quantify the computational capabilities … 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