In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

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

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros

By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)  

Strings, Geometry, and Data Science: January 6-8, 2020

Organized by: Michael R. Douglas, Sergei Gukov, James Halverson, Sven Krippendorf, and Fabian Ruehle Recent years have seen great progress in data science (DS), specifically within the context of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence, which is beginning to lead to breakthroughs in mathematics and theoretical physics. In light of this growing subfield, this conference … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Charles Kane, May 7 and 8, 2019.

The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr. Charles Kane, theoretical condensed matter physicist and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.  Title: The Emergence of Topological Quantum Matter General Public Lecture, Wednesday May 8, 2019 at 5:45 pm, Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium (Reception at 5:00pm) Special Presentation for Students, Wednesday May 8, 2019, at 11:00am, … Read more

Virtual Workshop: Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD

Organized by: Massimo D’Elia, Jeff Greensite, Elias Kiritsis, Zohar Komargodski, Edward Shuryak, Jacob Sonnenschein, Ismail Zahed. Understanding gauge field dynamics at the non-perturbative level, in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has been a persistent challenge. Lattice gauge theories solve these issues from first principles, on supercomputers. Semiclassical methods rely on dynamics of gluonic solitons – instantons, monopoles, instanton-dyons … Read more

Karen Uhlenbeck Wins Abel Prize

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is thrilled to congratulate Karen Uhlenbeck for having been awarded the 2019 Abel Prize. The prize, created by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, recognizes contributions to the field of mathematics that are of extraordinary depth and influence, and is generally viewed as the mathematics equivalent of … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawl: March 2019

ART CRAWL Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 2 PM. Tour of the Simons Center Art Gallery, the University Libraries Special Collections, the Charles B. Wang Center, and the Zuccaire Gallery. Reception will follow at the Zuccaire Gallery. Free Admission! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities … Read more

Virtual Workshop C*-algebras, K-theories and Noncommutative Geometries of Correlated Condensed Matter Systems: May 17-21, 2021

Registration for this event has been closed, please watch live at: Organized by: Emil Prodan, Anton Kapustin and Nigel Higson The uncorrelated topological phases of matter are relatively well understood by now, even in the regime of strong disorder. Since C*-algebras, K-theory and noncommutative geometry (NCG) have been critical to that understanding, they might also … Read more

Physics of neural circuits and network dynamics: January 27-31, 2020

Organized by: Giancarlo La Camera, Luca Mazzucato, Jin Wang and Michael R. Douglas This workshop brings together leading researchers to discuss current progress on uncovering emergent phenomena and design principles of brain function. The workshop is organized to encourage discussion across different research communities including physics, mathematics, machine learning, and neuroscience with a special emphasis … Read more

Kolam: An Ephemeral Women’s Art of South India

An exhibition of photographs and video by Claudia SilvaMarch 25 – June 26, 2019Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, NY Opening Reception Tuesday, March 26, 2019Reception: 5:00 pm, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP LobbyArtist Talk: 5:30 pm, Kolam: An Ephemeral Women’s Art of South India, by Claudia Silva, Della … Read more

Friends of SCGP

The mission of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is to further fundamental research in geometry and theoretical physics, specifically at the interface of these two fields.  The Center supports collaborative research at the frontiers of mathematics and physics, and is committed to sharing this knowledge with the broader community.   As government funding for … Read more

Virtual Workshop New directions in topological phases: from fractons to spatial symmetries: May 24-28, 2021

The application is now closed please visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/live to watch live. Organized by Jennifer Cano, Dominic Else, Andrey Gromov, Siddharth Parameswaran, and Yizhi You Topological phases of matter are a long-standing subject of interest in the condensed matter community, and increasingly relevant to issues in high-energy physics. A topological phase is traditionally defined to be … Read more