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Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Moduli

The Simons Center program on Renormalization and Universality in Conformal Geometry, Dynamics, Random Processes, and Field Theory is continuing with a series of online ZOOM seminars throughout 2020. For the full schedule of talks please visit: http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/agenda?LocationID=151 Or our calendar here: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/calendar/full-calendar In order to be added to our mailing list to receive upcoming talk announcements and … Read more
Organized by: Cyril Closset (Oxford U.), Leopoldo Pando Zayas (Michigan U.), Luigi Tizzano (SCGP, Stony Brook), Chiara Toldo (Ecole Polytechnique and CEA Saclay), Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano Bicocca U.) This seminar series will serve as a first part of the of the activity. The seminars will be run online via ZOOM, from September 28, 2020 – November … Read more
Organized by: Matthew Hedden, Tom Mrowka, Olga Plamenevskaya, Jacob Rasmussen This event has been changed to a Zoom Conference. There will be two talks every day (at 1:00pm and 3:00pm, U.S. Eastern Time) as well as informal discussion time following each talk. This workshop will explore topics of current interest in the theory of Floer … Read more
Organized by: David Damanik (Rice University), Jake Fillman (Texas State University), Selim Sukhtaiev (Auburn University) Ergodic Schrödinger operators have been studied heavily since the 1970s, as they include many examples of physical interest, such as disordered media, electrons in an external magnetic field, and quasicrystals. These operators enjoy many subtle connections to other areas of … Read more
By Luis Álvarez-Gaumé The Della Pietra Lecture Series commenced in 2011 with a generous donation from the Della Pietra families. The series aims to bring world-renowned scientists to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to enhance the intellectual activity of the Center and bring greater awareness of recent and impactful discoveries in physics and … Read more
US Electron Ion Collider to be Built at Brookhaven National Laboratory By Abhay Deshpande, Professor, Stony Brook University; Director, EIC Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory Recent news and excitement On January 9, 2020, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as the site of its future Electron Ion Collider … Read more
Organized by: Theodore D. Drivas (Stony Brook University), Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook University) 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. This is, in part, because fluid motion involves many spatiotemporal … Read more
Organizers: Massimo D’Elia, Jeff Greensite, Elias Kiritsis, Zohar Komargodski, Edward Shuryak, Jacob Sonnenschein, Ismail Zahed A workshop on these topics was supposed to start in June 2020 at the Simons Center of Stony Brook University, but this in-person meeting is now delayed to June 7, 2021. This will mean a roughly two year gap since … Read more
This is a continuation of last years program: Lighting new Lampposts for Dark Matter and Beyond the Standard Model. Organized by: Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science), Rouven Essig (Stony Brook), Maxim Pospelov (University of Minnesota) Continuing progress in collider physics and dark matter searches in the past few decades have put significant pressure on … Read more
Zohar Komargodski, physicist, and permanent faculty member at SCGP sits down with Mark Mezei, physicist, the inaugural research associate professor at SCGP. All previous postdoctoral positions at SCGP have been research assistant professors.