In this issue of the Newsletter

Milestones and Prizes

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield

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: More information can be found here: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3984 https://breakthroughprize.org/News/91
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to present the 2025 Science Playwriting Competition Staged Readings of the Winning Plays. First Place: The Physics of Fiction By Alex Dremann Second Place: Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter Third Place: Mother of Chemistry by Rex … Read more
Art Crawl: Friday, April 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Free guided tours of Stony Brook University art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges. The art crawl offers tours of five galleries this spring—visiting each … Read more
The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture Monday April 21, at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby Title: Where Does Mathematics Come From? Abstract: … Read more
Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The workshop will bring together experts in contact geometry, topology, and mathematical physics to focus on novel methods and phenomena in the geometry of the space of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds, with an emphasis on causal … Read more
Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The primary goal of this program is to investigate the causal structure on the space of Legendrian submanifolds—an emerging area of “hard” contact topology with deep connections to Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries, contact Hamiltonian dynamics, and Hofer-type … Read more
Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more
Flows of Reflectivity Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and Karina Yager Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Flows of Reflectivity unites artistic and scientific perspectives to examine glacier change and the dynamics of reflectivity through photography and video. Merging art and science, the exhibit deepens our understanding of … Read more
Organized by: Zhen Bi, Penn State University Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Zhu-Xi Luo (Georgia Institute of Technology) Thomas Scaffidi (University of California) Advances in the ability to create and dynamically control quantum many-body systems have catalyzed new and theoretically profound questions about collective quantum phenomena in real-world conditions. For instance, while the … Read more
Organizers: ● Timothy Budd (Radboud University) ● Frank Ferrari (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and International Solvay Institutes) ● Scott Sheffield (MIT) ● Herman Verlinde (Princeton University) ● Yilin Wang (IHES / ETH Zürich) ● Zhenbin Yang (Tsinghua University) The study of low dimensional models for quantum gravity, in particular Liouville and JT gravity, is … Read more