Statistical Physics, Neural Networks and Combinatorial Optimization
By Michael R. Douglas, Affiliate Faculty, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Milestones and Prizes
By Kenji Fukaya, Permanent Faculty Member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation awards the acclaimed, international Wolf Prize to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world. In 2020, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics was awarded jointly to Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) and Simon Donaldson (SCGP). In this article, Kenji Fukaya … Read more
Chris Gerig Lecture Series
The following talks will be held at the Simons Center in Room 102. Live streaming is available for virtual participants here: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/live Virtual Lecture 1: Wednesday 6/2312:00-13:00 EDT14:00-15:00 EDT 1) Introductory ECH and cobordism map difficultiesAbstract: In these two lectures I will introduce Embedded Contact Homology, a useful Floer theory for contact 3-manifolds, obtained by counting pseudoholomorphic curves … Read more
Dynamics of SCFTs and Special Functions: April 18-22, 2022
Organized by: Shlomo Sergei Razamat (Technion), Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) Recent years have seen significant progress in understanding the dynamics of supersymmetric quantum field theories in various space-time dimensions. This progress was partly due to the development of various localization techniques leading to exact computations of certain partition functions. Such computations can be expressed … Read more
Summer Seminar Series: Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD: June 7- August 2021
Organizers: Massimo D’Elia, Jeff Greensite, Elias Kiritsis, Zohar Komargodski, Edward Shuryak, Jacob Sonnenschein, Ismail Zahed A workshop on these topics was supposed to start in June 2020 and then again in June 2021 at the Simons Center of Stony Brook University, but this in-person meeting is now canceled. This will mean a roughly three-year gap … Read more
Lecture Series by Daniel Jafferis: Mini-course on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix Models
The Simons Center is pleased to present a mini-course by Daniel Jafferis on Wormholes, Strings and Matrix Models Talks will be held daily from Monday June 7 – Thursday June 10 at 1:30pm in the SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium, room 103. This will be an in-person event for local attendees, video recordings will be streamed live … Read more
Geometric Representation Theory, Integrability, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories: September 26 – September 30, 2022
Organized by: Peter Koroteev (University of California, Berkeley), Elli Pomoni (DESY), Benoit Vicedo (University of York), Dmytro Volin (NORDITA), Anton Zeitlin (Louisiana State University) Recent progress in the study of supersymmetric gauge theories provided nontrivial relations between various aspects of modern representation theory. That involves quantum groups and related integrable models which appear in different … Read more
Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem: June 17 – 24, 2022
Organized by: Andrew Millis (Columbia) For more information please visit the Simons Foundation website: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/many-electron-collaboration/
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: Progress and Open Problems: September 12-15, 2021
For more information please visit https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/
Simons Collaboration the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap: November 8-10, 2021
The Simons Center will be hosting the Simons Collaboration: the Non-Perturbative Bootstrap. For more information about this event please visit: http://bootstrapcollaboration.com.