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Milestones and Prizes

Congratulations to John Pardon on winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for important results in geometry and topology, particularly in the field of symplectic geometry and pseudo-holomorphic curves, which are certain types of smooth surfaces in manifolds.

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces. By Samuel Grushevsky Teichmuller Dynamics via Algebraic Geometry

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield. Interview by Evita Nestoridi

Random Paths to Quantum Field Theory

Random Paths to Quantum Field Theory. By Antti Kupiainen
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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

Confinement and QCD Strings: November 10 – 12, 2025

Organized by Igor Klebanov, Zohar Komargodski, Raju Venugopalan The workshop will cover a range of topics related to confining gauge theories, and non-perturbative QFT more broadly. Topics will include aspects of lattice gauge theory models, corrections to the Nambu-Goto action and the S-matrix bootstrap for confining strings, generalized symmetries on the lattice and in the … Read more

2025-26 Call for Plays!

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Science Playwriting Competition 2025-26 Call for Plays DEADLINE for submissions is now closed. Winners will be announced in early 2026! The Science Playwriting Competition brings science and theatre together for the dissemination of scientific knowledge through an intriguing lens — providing inspiration for plays that lead to exciting ways … Read more

4th Simons Math Summer Workshop: Algebraic methods in probability – July 6 – 24, 2026

Organized By: Alexei Borodin (MIT) Ivan Corwin (Columbia) Evita Nestoridi (Stony Brook) Much of probability theory is concerned with understanding phenomena and structure that emerges in large, complex systems driven by disorder. This understanding is often first established for special example systems that are analyzable due to hidden connections to algebra. This summer workshop will … Read more

Physics and mathematics of turbulence in different media: September 14-18, 2026

Organized by: Theodore Drivas (Stony Brook) Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann) Vladimir Rosenhaus (CUNY) Vlad Vicol (NYU) The last decade has seen significant progress in the studies of turbulence, understood widely as a far-from-equilibrium state of a system with many degrees of freedom. This is due, in particular, to the two just-finished Simons collaborations, one on wave … Read more

Piano Performance by Leon Livshin, Wednesday April 23

The Simons Center is please to present a piano performance by Leon Livshin. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5:00pm Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, room 103 Crescendo of the Self: From Baroque Humility to Romantic Climax Bach 7 Preludes and Fugues Mozart Sonata in A minor … Read more

Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Memorial Symposium – Monday, April 28th, 2025

Organizing Committee: Luis Alvarez-Gaume David Goldhaber-Gordon Concha Gonzalez-Garcia Vladimir Korepin Barry McCoy Martin Rocek Robert Shrock George Sterman, Chair Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen Tzu-Chieh Wei Alfred (Fred) Scharff Goldhaber passed away last Fall.  Fred was a faculty member at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook nearly from its founding, and a valued … Read more

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