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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

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

POSTPONED: Ander Mikalson and Katie Paterson: Artworks to Sonify and Colorize the Universe

Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, NYMarch 26 – August 7, 2020 Opening Reception Postponed – TBAGuest Speaker: Artist talk by Ander Mikalson, Score for the Big Bang: The Universe as VoiceDella Pietra Family Auditorium, SCGP 103 Curated by Jillian McDonaldCurator, Pace Digital Gallery ProjectsProfessor, Art Department, Pace University, New … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series by Dr. Elena Aprile: October 27-29, 2021

General Public Lecture Date: Wednesday, October 27th, 2021Lecture: 5PM ET Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103   Title: “The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Project” Abstract: In this lecture, Elena Aprile will discuss the latest efforts to illuminate the nature of dark matter, the dominant form of matter in the Universe. An answer to this fundamental question … Read more

Canceled Simons Summer Workshop: Strings and Geometry July 13 – August 7, 2020

Due to the current pandemic, Stony Brook University will remain closed throughout the 2020 summer. The Simons Summer Workshop 2021 will run from July 12-August 6. Scientific organizer: Cumrun Vafa Local organizer: Martin Rocek This Workshop is the thirteenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the eighteenth in … Read more

Science Playwriting Competition – Virtual Staged Readings

Update 4/24/2020 – A virtual reading of the winning plays will take place on Monday May 11 at 7:00pm via createtheater.comA special thanks to Director, Steve Marsh, and the Create Theater community, who helped to make this possible. Watch the ZOOM video recording here: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?id=4516 *Some plays contain some strong language The Simons Center for … Read more

Mapping the Universe

By Marilena Loverde Assistant Professor of Physics C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Stony Brook University

Splitting the Indivisible

By Charles L. KaneChristopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics University of Pennsylvania Matter can arrange itself in the most ingenious ways. In addition to the solid, liquid and gas phases that are familiar in classical physics, electronic phases of matter with both useful and exotic properties are made possible by quantum mechanics. In the … Read more

Grand Environmental Challenges Workshop

Grand environmental challenges face our world, and Stony Brook University is well positioned to help solve some of them. We intend to propose a new Center focusing on solutions addressing Grand Challenge problems of the Earth environment utilizing campus-wide interdisciplinary faculty expertise. This workshop will shape the vision for this new campus-wide, environment-focused Center. Friday … Read more

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