The Art of Science: Selections from the Collection
Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, NY August 1 – December 15, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24, 2019Reception: 5:00 pm, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP LobbyGuest Speaker: 5:30 pm, Ethan Edwards, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJLecture Title: On the Importance of Fusing … Read more
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: Progress and Open Problems 2019: September 8-11, 2019
Progress and Open Problems 2019: September 8-11, 2019, SCGP, Stony Brook For more information please visit https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-open-problems-2019-september-8-11-2019-scgp-stony-brook/
Supersymmetric Black Holes, Holography and Microstate Counting (Postponed)
Organized by: Cyril Closset (Birmingham U.), Leopoldo Pando Zayas (Michigan U.), Luigi Tizzano (SCGP, Stony Brook), Chiara Toldo (Amsterdam U.), Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano Bicocca U.) This workshop will be rescheudled For more information regarding the online seminar series, including the schedule of talks and registration information please visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/32982 These activities will be dedicated to the … Read more
Palindrome Quartet, November 13, 2019
The Simons Center Art and Outreach program is pleased to present a Palindrome Quartet performance and lecture on Wednesday November 13, 2019 featuring Iva Casian-Lakoš on cello, Jennifer Gersten and Kate Dreyfuss on violin, and Chelsea Wimmer on viola. Lecture Title: Going Against the Grain: Ruth Crawford and her String Quartet “1931” Abstract: A lecture on … Read more
Stony Brook University Art Crawl: September 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ET) Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges, and collaborations. Our art crawls unite the university galleries through a series of free, guided tours led by curators. This initiative directly supports the … Read more
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: September 8-11, 2019
Progress and Open Problems 2019: September 8-11, 2019 More information can be found on the full conference website here: https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-open-problems-2019-september-8-11-2019-scgp-stony-brook/
Peter van Niewenhuizen Shares Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Congratulations to Dr. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, distinguished professor of physics in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, and long-time friend and collaborator with the SCGP. It was announced today that van Nieuwenhuizen shares the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Sergio Ferrara of CERN and Daniel Z. Freedman of … Read more
Virtual Workshop Renormalization Retrospective: Feigenbaum Memorial Conference: March 4-7, 2021
This event has been changed to a virtual conference. In order to be added to the event mailing list for upcoming talk announcements and links, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms Organizers: David Campbell, Kostya Khanin, Misha Lyubich, and Dennis Sullivan This Conference will pay tribute to the great discovery made by Feigenbaum in the mid … Read more
Virtual Workshop Many faces of renormalization: March 8-12, 2021
This event has been changed to a virtual conference. In order to be added to the event mailing list for upcoming talk announcements and links, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms. For security reasons, please do not post the log-in info online, but feel free to share it privately with your colleagues. Organized by: Dzmitry Dudko, Mikhail Lyubich … Read more
Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Adam Riess, August 5 and 6, 2019
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr. Adam Riess, Astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Riess is widely known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes and shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is … Read more