Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Cumrun Vafa: Puzzles to Unravel the Universe
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present Cumrun Vafa, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the Physics Department at Harvard University: General Public Lecture Date: Monday May 16, 2022Lecture: 5:00pm, Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103Title: “Puzzles to Unravel the Universe”Abstract: Beneath all of the complex and formidable mathematical … Read more
2022 Simons Summer Workshop: July 25 – August 12, 2022
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
Simons Foundation Conference on Higher Dimensional Geometry: May 8 – 12, 2023
For more information please visit: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mps-conference-on-higher-dimensional-geometry-may-8-12-2023/
Simons Foundation: Higher Dimensional Geometry: August 22 – 26, 2022
For more information please visit https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mps-conference-on-higher-dimensional-geometry-august-22-26-2022/
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: Progress and Open Problems: September 11-14, 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/
Supersymmetric Black Holes, Holography and Microstate Counting: October 31-November 4, 2022
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
5d N=1 SCFTs and Gauge Theories on Brane Webs: October 17 – October 21, 2022
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
Mathematics Seminar
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











