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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

Geometrical Aspects of Topological Phases of Matter: Spatial Symmetries, Fractons and Beyond: April 4 – May 27, 2022

Organized by: Jennifer Cano (Stony Brook University), Dominic Else (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Andrey Gromov (Brown), Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford), Yizhi You (Princeton University) Topological phases of matter are a long-standing subject of interest in the condensed matter community, and increasingly relevant to issues in high-energy physics. A topological phase is traditionally defined to … Read more

Probability, integrability, and conformal invariance: August 23 – September 10, 2021

Organized by: Eldad Bettelheim (Hebrew University), Ilya Gruzberg (Ohio State University), Håkan Hedenmalm (KTH), Alisa Knizel (University of Chicago), Paul Wiegmann (Univ. of Chicago) In recent years, the convergence of several topics in mathematics and physics have led to exciting developments in the study of fundamental problems in field theory, statistical mechanics, and probability theory. … Read more

Virtual Lecture by Philip F. Palmedo: DEEP AFFINITIES: ART AND SCIENCE

Speaker: Philip F. Palmedo 5:00pm EDT, Wednesday March 24, 2021 via Zoom In this illustrated lecture Philip F. Palmedo, a former physicist who has written extensively on art, reveals how the two defining enterprises of humankind—art and science—are rooted in certain common instincts, which are fundamentally aesthetic. They originated in early humans’ need, to understand … Read more

Mathematical Aspects of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory: February 26-March 1, 2024

Organized by: Benjamin Basso (Ecole Normale Superieure) Lance Dixon (SLAC/Stanford U.) Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) Anastasia Volovich (Brown) Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory have a rich mathematical structure, involving Grassmannians and polytopes, the amplituhedron, tropicalization, cluster algebras, Hopf algebras, motivic zeta values, multiple polylogarithms and Galois theory, elliptic polylogarithms and Calabi-Yau geometries, and Y … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawl: March 2021 (VIRTUAL)

Tuesday, March 23, 2023 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (ET) Join us for a virtual, campus-wide tour of the art galleries at Stony Brook University on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.! Participating Galleries: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Simons Center, Wang Center and Melville Library. Join via zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/81413276255?pwd=SHFCZjR0S2ZqbWNlVWw5bno5Q085QT09 

Remembering Isadore Singer

It is with great sadness that we reflect on the loss of Professor Isadore Singer: Is Singer was a friend and colleague of many at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. He played an important role in the creation of the Simons Center and was the founding co-chairman of its Board of Trustees.  His achievements … Read more

Talk by Kenji Fukaya | Harvard CMSA Math Science Literature Lecture Series

Harvard CMSA and Shing-Tung Yau are continuing to host a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars. All talks will take place virtually via Zoom. The next upcoming talk will be by Kenji Fukaya (Simons Center … Read more

Recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory: March 14 – 18, 2022

Organized by: Kenji Fukaya (SCGP), Yanki Lekili (Imperial College, London), Chris Woodward (Rutgers University) The theme of the workshop is structural properties of Lagrangian Floer theory and its applications. Topics will include the behavior of Floer cohomology under various kinds of surgery; formulas for the behavior of disk potentials under Lagrangian surgery or mutation; potentials … Read more

Integrability, Enumerative Geometry and Quantization: August 22nd – September 23rd, 2022

Gaëtan Borot (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany), Alexandr Buryak (Higher School of Economics, Russia),  Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University), Nikita Nekrasov (SCGP), Paul Norbury (University of Melbourne, Australia), Paolo Rossi (University of Padua, Italy) Additional Talks: Tuesday, September 13⋅1:00 – 2:30pm, SCGP room 313: David HolmesTitle: Variations on double ramification cyclesAbstract Tuesday, September 20⋅1:00 – 2:30pm, … Read more

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