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Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros

By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)  
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In the news

John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
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

Small Scale Dynamics in Fluid Motion: June 13-24, 2022

Organized by: Theodore D. Drivas (Stony Brook University), Tarek M. Elgindi (Duke University), Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook University – Math) Turbulent flows are ubiquitous in the world around us; from trailing airplane wakes to swirling cream in our morning coffee. Despite its prevalence, basic mathematical questions about this complex non-linear phenomenon persist. The purpose of … Read more

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

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