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Spaces of Functions with a Bounded Number of Critical Points

By John Pardon, Professor of Mathematics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

The Black Hole Information Paradox

A 50 Year Journey – By Samir D. Mathur

Puzzle Time

The Fisherman and the Boat by Alexander Abanov Integer Mutations by Maxim Braverman

The Simons Center Art and Outreach Program

A summary of the Art and Outreach events hosted by the Simons Center during the fall 2025 and winter 2026, including a series of Della Pietra sponsored lectures by Prof Avi Wigderson (IAS)
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In the news

Simons Center Welcomes New Director Ludmil Katzarkov
Congratulations to the 2026 Fields Medalists
John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov

The SCGP seeks Research Assistant Professors/Postdocs for Fall 2027

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has openings for Research Assistant Professors (Postdocs) in the coming academic year. These are three-year, fixed term positions with an expected start date of September 1, 2027. Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is an endowed research organization devoted to furthering fundamental knowledge in geometry and … Read more

Symposium: Math, Physics, and AI: 200 Years Later. Friday, October 30, 2026

How does AI change mathematical and physical research? This SCGP event connects five research talks with a structured panel. The talks focus on specific research problems. The panel examines proof, understanding, discovery and education. Speakers will compare concrete examples and explain how they check results. Audience questions will connect the three themes. All talks will … Read more

C.N. Yang Memorial Symposium, October 13-14, 2026 

Late Prof. C.N. “Frank” Yang: 1922-2025 Date: October 13-14, 2026  |  Location: Simons Center Room 103 & 102 Chen-Ning Yang left an indelible impression on the development of physics that is as strong in the second quarter of the twenty-first century as when he retired from Stony Brook, twenty-seven years ago.  For this meeting, we … Read more

Celebrating John Pardon, 2026 Fields Medalist, Thursday, October 29, 2026

  A Tribute to Discovery, Research and Excellence in Mathematics Thursday, October 29, 2026 Please join us in celebrating our colleague, John Pardon, recipient of the 2026 Fields Medal for his achievements in symplectic geometry, including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles, Fukaya categories of certain manifolds and counting holomorphic curves, and for his contributions … Read more

5th Simons Math Summer Workshop: New Developments in Birational Geometry: Atoms, Hodge Theory, and Physics July 5 – 23, 2027

Organized by: Leonardo Cavenaghi Ludmil Katzarkov Maxim Kontsevich Tony Pantev Birational geometry has recently acquired a new and unexpected source of invariants. Rather than being extracted from the geometry of a variety directly, they are read off from its quantum cohomology together with the Hodge-theoretic structures attached to it. The purpose of this event is … Read more

Simons Center Welcomes New Director Ludmil Katzarkov

Ludmil Katzarkov, an international leader and researcher of advanced geometry, has taken the helm of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics this fall, 2026. Katzarkov is well known for his work and its far-reaching implications in geometry, number theory and physics. He has worked in the following areas: uniformization, where he was instrumental in … Read more

New Developments in Birational Geometry, October 7–9, 2026

A Three-Day School and Research Workshop Preparatory Meeting for the 2027 Summer School  Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) October 7–9, 2026 Overview Birational geometry has recently acquired a new and unexpected source of invariants. Rather than being extracted from the geometry of a variety directly, these invariants are read off from its quantum … Read more

Congratulations to the 2026 Fields Medalists

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics congratulates our colleague John Pardon on being awarded the 2026 Fields Medal, one of the highest international honors in mathematics. Presented every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the Fields Medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement and is awarded to mathematicians whose work has made profound contributions to the field. Pardon shares the 2026 honor with Yu Deng (University of Chicago), Jacob … Read more

Holographic Correlators and the Black Hole Interior – January 4-8, 2027

Organized by: Ahmed Almheiri (NYU) Hong Liu (MIT) Stephen Shenker (Stanford University) Sasha Zhiboedov (CERN) The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on AdS/CFT, general relativity, black hole perturbation theory, thermal QFT correlators, quantum chaos and SYK. The focus of the workshop is to investigate and understand how boundary correlation functions … Read more

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