In this issue of the Newsletter

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)  

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Fumiharu Kato, November 15-17, 2022

The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Dr. Fumiharu Kato, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics November 15-17, 2022 General Public Lecture Date and Time: Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 5:00PM ET Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby  Title: Why is … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawl: October 2022

Thursday, October 6, 2022 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (ET) Free guided tours of diverse art galleries – join at any point on the tour! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges and collaborations. Our art crawls unite our university’s galleries through … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Alvaro De Rujula, October 25-27, 2022

The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Dr. Alvaro De Rujula, CERN, October 25-27, 2022 General Public Lecture Date and Time: Tuesday, October 25th, 2022, 5:00PM ET Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby  THE VALUE OF “PURE” SCIENCE The Higgs boson and the … Read more

Fluctuations, Entanglements, and Chaos: Exact Results: August 28, 2023-October 6, 2023

Organized by: D. Bernard, B. Bertini, F. H. L. Essler, V. Khemani and T. Prosen Experimental advances in ultra-cold atomic physics and building quantum simulators have opened up new research areas in quantum many-body physics focused on inherently dynamical properties. Examples of fundamental questions that have been investigated in the last few years included characterizing … Read more

Ways of Making: September 30–December 15, 2022

Moira Chas, Johnathan Hopp, LoVid September 30–December 15, 2022 Curated by Tali Hinkis and Lorraine Walsh The Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) Stony Brook University, NY 11794 Opening Reception: Friday, September 30, 2022, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Artist Presentations. Della Pietra … Read more

Discovering New Frontiers

SCGP Director Luis Álvarez-Gaumé sits down with new SCGP Deputy Director Samuel Grushevsky to talk about his career, his view of the Simons Center’s unique traditions, and his vision of new directions of bringing mathematics and physics together.