In this issue of the Newsletter

Milestones and Prizes

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield

Organized by: Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook) Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann) Vladimir Rosenhaus (CUNY) Vlad Vicol (NYU) The last decade has seen significant progress in the studies of turbulence, understood widely as a far-from-equilibrium state of a system with many degrees of freedom. This is due, in particular, to the two just-finished Simons collaborations, one on wave … Read more
The Simons Center is please to present a piano performance by Leon Livshin. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5:00pm Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, room 103 Crescendo of the Self: From Baroque Humility to Romantic Climax Bach 7 Preludes and Fugues Mozart Sonata in A minor … Read more
Organizing Committee: Luis Alvarez-Gaume David Goldhaber-Gordon Concha Gonzalez-Garcia Vladimir Korepin Barry McCoy Martin Rocek Robert Shrock George Sterman, Chair Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen Tzu-Chieh Wei Alfred (Fred) Scharff Goldhaber passed away last Fall. Fred was a faculty member at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook nearly from its founding, and a valued … Read more
Congratulations to John Pardon on winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for important results in geometry and topology, particularly in the field of symplectic geometry and pseudo-holomorphic curves: More information can be found here: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3984 https://breakthroughprize.org/News/91
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to present the 2025 Science Playwriting Competition Staged Readings of the Winning Plays. First Place: The Physics of Fiction By Alex Dremann Second Place: Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter Third Place: Mother of Chemistry by Rex … Read more
Art Crawl: Friday, April 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Free guided tours of Stony Brook University art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges. The art crawl offers tours of five galleries this spring—visiting each … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Monday April 21, at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby Title: Where Does Mathematics Come From? Abstract: … Read more
Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The workshop will bring together experts in contact geometry, topology, and mathematical physics to focus on novel methods and phenomena in the geometry of the space of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds, with an emphasis on causal … Read more
Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The primary goal of this program is to investigate the causal structure on the space of Legendrian submanifolds—an emerging area of “hard” contact topology with deep connections to Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries, contact Hamiltonian dynamics, and Hofer-type … Read more
Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more