In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Moduli

Organized by: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Dan Freedman Supergravity is intrinsically associated with Stony Brook. It may well be the most significant physics discovery in the entire history of the Yang Institute. Since 1976, many researchers have worked to generalize the basic theory we found and apply it to the physics of elementary particles and gravity. … Read more
Organized by: Michael Anderson (Stony Brook University) Dionysios Anninos (King’s College London) Damian Galante (King’s College London) Edgar Shaghoulian (UC Santa Cruz) Eva Silverstein (Stanford University) Asymptotic boundaries play a crucial role in the theory of general relativity. Foundational examples include the null boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes and the conformal boundary of Anti-de Sitter … Read more
Organized by Lars Andersson (BIMSA) and Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook) This program will bring together a constellation of the world’s experts on Einstein 4-manifolds and gravitational instantons. Recall that a Riemannian manifold is said to be Einstein if its Ricci curvature, considered as a function on the unit tangent bundle, is constant. However, dimension four … Read more
Organized by: Niayesh Afshordi, Emil Martinec and Samir D. Mathur 50 years ago Stephen Hawking published his famous paper arguing that the evaporation of black holes violated quantum unitarity. In the intervening decades, the puzzle, known as the black hole information paradox, has become an intense focus of interest. However, different parts of the community … Read more
Organized by: Niayesh Afshordi, Emil Martinec and Samir D. Mathur 50 years ago Stephen Hawking published his famous paper arguing that the evaporation of black holes violated quantum unitarity. In the intervening decades, the puzzle, known as the black hole information paradox, has become an intense focus of interest. Yet different parts of the physics … Read more
The Simons Center is pleased to present pianist Liya Nigmati, Mirrors of Sound: A Musical Odyssey Solo recital performance at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Wednesday February 12, 2025 5:00pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium, room 103 Program G. Mahler ‘Adagietto’ from Symphony No. 5 (arr. by O. Singer) (11 minutes) J. S. Bach … Read more
Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Seventeenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-second in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. This year’s Simons summer workshop in physics will explore future … Read more
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
By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard