In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Moduli

C.N. Yang Colloquium Series Presents Dr. Barry Barish, 2017 Nobel Laureate Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves September 6, 2022 Coffee/Tea at 4:00pm, Simons Center Cafe Lecture, 4:30pm, Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 Reception immediately following the talk
John Morgan, the Founding Director of the Simons Center, talks to geometer Richard Hamilton about the 40-year history of Ricci flow, the Poincare conjecture and the importance of being lucky.
The Simons Center is pleased to congratulate Research Assistant Professor, Avia Raviv-Moshe. Avia has been selected to receive the 2022 Women’s Postdoctoral Career Development Award in Science, granted by the Weizmann Institute of Science, in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements to date.
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.
Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory are constructing the world’s first quantum-enabled internet By Eden Figueroa, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Joint Appointment, Brookhaven National Laboratory
By Mark Andrea de Cataldo Department of Mathematics Stony Brook University
Dr. Dennis Parnell Sullivan, distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University, is the 2022 recipient of the Abel Prize, an honor often described as “the equivalent of a Nobel in mathematics.” He is also the Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) at City University of New York Graduate Center and a … Read more
Summer 2022 Tuesday Concerts The Art and Outreach Program at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University is pleased to present a new music series free and open to the public: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 The TransAtlantic Piano Duo: Pablo Lavandera and Evelyn Ulex 4:30 – 5:30 pm: Concert in the … Read more
This instructional workshop, aimed at graduate students familiar with basic algebraic geometry, will introduce attendees to rationality problems, measures of irrationality, and groups of birational automorphisms such as the Cremona group. The SCGP will host a research workshop Birational Complexity of Algebraic Varieties the following week (December 12-16, 2022, SCGP). The Graduate workshop will revolve around … Read more
In honor of Mrs. Caterina Tomassoni and Dr. Felice Pietro Chisesi, the prize is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in physics.
Dr. Zohar Komargodski has been recognized for his outstanding and influential contributions to Quantum Field Theory and the theories of the fundamental interactions.