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Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

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Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) This Workshop is the fourteenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the nineteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s summer workshop will focus on Diverse Facets of String Theory. String theory … Read more
For more information please visit: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mps-conference-on-higher-dimensional-geometry-may-8-12-2023/
For more information please visit https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mps-conference-on-higher-dimensional-geometry-august-22-26-2022/
Organizer: Robert Bryant For more information please visit https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-open-problems-2022-september-11-14-2022-scgp-stony-brook/
Organized by: Cyril Closset (University of Birmingham), Leopoldo Pando Zayas (Michigan U.), Luigi Tizzano (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Chiara Toldo (Harvard University), Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano Bicocca U.) These activities will be dedicated to the study of supersymmetric black holes in holography from both sides of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Holography provides a powerful framework which allows … Read more
Organized by: Amihay Hanany (Imperial College London), Marcus Sperling (Tsinghua University), Antoine Bourget (Imperial College London), Julius Grimminger (Imperial College London) Five dimensional (5d) Lagrangian gauge theories are non-renormalizable, however many 5d N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories can be understood as effective infrared (IR) descriptions of 5d or 6d conformal fixed points in the ultraviolet (UV) under … Read more
Talks by postdoctoral scholars at the SCGP, Stony Brook Mathematics department, and the IMS introducing the foundational concepts and questions in their fields. The talks will be at the level accessible to all other postdocs in all fields of mathematics. Organized by Olivier Martin and Fabian Lehmann Mondays: 2-3PM in SCGP room 313 unless otherwise … Read more
As per NYS, mask mandate is no longer in effect as of March 2, 2022. Masks are optional. For more information, please visit the dedicated page Stony Brook University – STRONGER TOGETHER. We continue to advise mask wearing if you: Develop COVID-like symptoms Receive a positive COVID-19 test while you are at work Are concerned you … Read more