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Ten Years in the SCGP and 3 + 4 = 7

By Sir Simon Donaldson Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Natural Language: Geometry and Physics

By Nikita Nekrasov Professor of Physics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest university in Northern Europe. The tradition of conferring honorary degrees goes back to the same time yet a different place (Oxford University). It is a tremendous honor to join a long line of scholars linking the centers of knowledge mining and knowledge transfer throughout the globe. Read more…

A Word from the Directors: Remembering Jim

On May 10, 2024, James Harris Simons (Jim), passed away at the age of 86 in New York City. Jim’s lifelong passion for math and basic science were an inspiration … Read more

My Career in Physics. A Biographical Research Summary by Robert Shrock

C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Distinguished Professor Robert Shrock details a brief history of his career in physics, including a collection of research results.

Mathematical Billiards and Related Topics. By Alfonso Sorrentino and Sergei Tabachnikov

Mathematical Billiards and Related Topics By Alfonso Sorrentino, University of Rome Tor Vergata and Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University   
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Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Professor Zohar Komargodski Awarded the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

Workshop: Hyperkahler quotients, singularities, and quivers: January 30 – February 3, 2023.

Organized by: Ljudmila Kamenova (Stony Brook University), Giovanni Mongardi (University of Bologna), Alexei Oblomkov (UMass Amherst) Hyperkahler manifolds are higher-dimensional generalizations of K3 surfaces, and as such they are a perfect testing ground for central conjectures in algebraic geometry, like the Hodge conjecture, the Tate conjecture, Grothendieck’s standard conjectures, Bloch-Beilinson conjectures, etc. Exciting new insight … Read more

Roundtable for Math and Science Summer Programs: April 29 – May 1, 2022

Organized by:Elena Yakubovskaya, Stony Brook University, SigmaCamp,Alexander Kirillov, Stony Brook University, SigmaCamp,Marisa Debowsky, Canada/USA Mathcamp,Daniil Lukin, Stanford University, SigmaCamp,Dan Zaharopol, BEAM This workshop brings together organizers of advanced math and science summer programs for middle and high school students. This roundtable is geared towards the most pressing issues of post-pandemic return to in-person sessions, recruiting … Read more

Gauged Linear Sigma Models @30: May 22-26, 2023

Organized by: Mykola Dedushenko, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Heeyeon Kim, Rutgers University, Johanna Knapp, University of Melbourne, Ilarion Melnikov, James Madison University, Eric Sharpe, Virginia Tech. Gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) have provided key insights into numerous aspects of string theory and supersymmetric field theory and have been a bridge to various fields … Read more

Forty Years of Ricci Flow: The Geometric-Flow Revolution in Global Differential Geometry: July 11-15, 2022

Organized by: Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University Christine Guenther, Pacific University James Isenberg, University of Oregon Dan Knopf, The University of Texas at Austin Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook University. The Ricci flow has played a decisive role in geometry and topology during the forty years since it was first introduced by Richard … Read more

Combinatorics and Geometry of Convex Polyhedra: March 20-24, 2023

Organized by: Karim Adiprasito, University of Copenhagen and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Alexey Glazyrin, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Igor Pak, UCLA. Convex polyhedra are fundamental structures in geometry playing an intermediate role between the continuous (smooth) and discrete (combinatorial) worlds. Over the past century, much progress has been … Read more

Number Theory And Physics: October 24 – November 18 2022

Organized by: Brian Conrey (American Institute of Mathematics ), Matilde Lalin (Université de Montréal), Giuseppe Mussardo (Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche, SISSA), German Sierra (UAM/CSIC) Talk Schedule: Time Title Speaker Location Monday October 31 10:30am Hyperuniformity and its connection to number theory and discrete geometry Abstract Salvatore Torquato SCGP 313 Monday October 31 1:30pm … Read more

SuperGeometry and SuperModuli: March 27 – May 19, 2023

Organized by: Sergio Cacciatori (Università degli studi dell’Insubria), Samuel Grushevsky (SCGP), Alexander Polishchuk (University of Oregon) A supermanifold is the generalization of a usual manifold when some of the coordinates are even variables, and some are odd. The mathematical foundations of supergeometry were established in the 1970s and 1980s. While much of the motivation for … Read more

Lighting New Lampposts for Dark Matter and Beyond the Standard Model: March 13-17, 2023

Organized by: Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science), Rouven Essig (Stony Brook), Maxim Pospelov (University of Minnesota), Kim Berghaus (Stony Brook), Mauro Valli (Stony Brook) Continuing progress in collider physics and dark matter searches in the past few decades have put significant pressure on several favorable theoretical models for Dark Matter and other beyond the … Read more

Hyperkahler quotients, singularities, and quivers: January 3 – February 24, 2023

Organized by: Ljudmila Kamenova (Stony Brook University), Giovanni Mongardi (University of Bologna), Alexei Oblomkov (UMass Amherst) Talk Schedule:     Time Title Speaker Location Monday January 9 10:30am Hodge theory of Lagrangian fibrations I Abstract Junliang Shen SCGP 313 Tuesday January 10 10:30am Hodge theory of Lagrangian fibrations II Abstract Junliang Shen SCGP 313 Wednesday … Read more

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