Weekly Talks, Physics Seminar and Calendar of Events
View the schedule of Simons Center weekly seminars here: scgp.stonybrook.edu/science/weekly-seminars
The SCGP Seeks Tenured Mathematics Professor (Permanent Faculty Member)
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University seeks applications for one Tenured Professor position in Mathematics; the candidate will also be a Tenured Professor at the Mathematics department. The search is open to outstanding candidates in the area of geometry understood in a broad sense and related areas. The applicant does … Read more
The SCGP Seeks Tenured Physics Professor (Permanent Faculty Member)
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University seeks applications for one Tenured Professor position in Theoretical Physics; this candidate will also be Tenured Professors at the YITP/Department of Physics and Astronomy. The search is open to outstanding candidates in any field of theoretical physics, ranging from Quantum Gravity to Condensed Matter … Read more
22nd Simons Physics Summer Workshop: 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. More information to follow in January 2025.
Outreach Lectures – Book Talks
Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature
Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Moduli
By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard
Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros
By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)
Paths to Quantum Field Theory: June 22-26, 2026
Organized by: Aleksey Cherman (U of Minnesota) Sungwoo Hong, (KAIST) Nabil Iqbal (Durham U) Zohar Komargodski (SCGP) Emily Nardoni, (Vassar College) Tin Sulejmanpasic (Durham U) Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (SBU) Our workshop proposal centers on trying to bring together the members of several disjoint communities in a productive and informative way. While workshops to this effect do … Read more
Workshop: Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 8-12, 2026
Organized by: Vincenzo Alba Jerome Dubail Mari-Carmen Banuls Aditi Mitra Anatoli Polkovniko The workshop will foster interactions among experts in quantum and classical simulation methods, quantum information, and tractable systems, to assess the state-of-the art of these questions, and propose benchmarks that may help answer it. First, the workshop will stimulate a complexity-informed exploration of … Read more
Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 1 – July 2, 2026
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
Geometric Measure Theory on Metric Spaces with Applications to Physics and Geometry: September 15-19, 2025
Organized by: Luigi Ambrosio (Pisa) Andrea Mondino (Oxford) Raquel Perales (CIMAT) Christina Sormani (CUNYGC and Lehman College) In the nearly twenty-five years since the publication of Ambrosio-Kirchheim’s seminal paper, Currents on Metric Spaces, there have been significant applications of this generalization of Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) that deepen our understanding of both Geometry and Physics. … Read more
Geometry and Convergence in Mathematical General Relativity: August 25 – Oct 3, 2025
Organized by: Michael Kunzinger (U Vienna) Andrea Mondino (Oxford) Marcus Khuri (Stony Brook) Raquel Perales (CIMAT) Richard Schoen (UC Irvine) Christina Sormani (CUNYGC and Lehman College) Guoliang Yu (TAMU) In the past decade, significant advances in the understanding of spaces arising in General Relativity have been achieved using techniques from Metric Geometry, Optimal Transport, and … Read more