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The Simons Center Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of HIDDEN SYMMETRIES, an exhibition featuring pre-Columbian art from Tony Phillips’ collection of mathematical textiles. Simons Center Gallery June 20 – September 17, 2018 Hidden Symmetries Opening Reception Math and Art Symposium Tuesday, July 31, 2018, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics 11:00 am: Introductions … Read more
Opening Reception Math and Art Symposium Tuesday, July 31, 2018
For more information please visit: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/MATHUSLA/MATHUSLAPublic For information about our specific workshop and a schedule for the week please visit: https://indico.cern.ch/event/748511/overview
Visit scgp.stonybrook.edu/della-pietra-lecture-series for more information on the Simons Center public lectures
Jun 15, 2018 at 10:00 Am Title: Computer driven questions, pre-theorems and theorems in geometry Abstract: Several numbers can be associated to a free homotopy class X of closed curves on a surface S with negative Euler characteristic. Among these, – the self-intersection number of X – the word length of X – the length … Read more
Time: Jun 14, 2018 10:00 AM Speaker: Dennis Sullivan Title: The generalization of the Goldman bracket to Three dimensions and its relation to Geometrization This lecture begins with some background to the joint work of Moira Chas and Siddartha Gadgil recognizing “geometrization”. We describe elementary pictorial computations of the zeroth, first and second homology of the … Read more
The SCGP wishes to congratulate Professor Nora Donaldson on her recent election, effective as of July 2018, to the International Advisory Board of the International Society for Quality of Life Research. The International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), established in 1993, is a non-profit society to advance the scientific study of health-related quality of … Read more
By Yakov Landau The Annual Simons Summer Workshop held at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is one of the Center’s scientific highlights of the year. In its 15th year, this summer’s topic was “Strings and QFT Without SUSY.” However, as one speaker pointed out, this is as broad a subject as non-giraffe biology, … Read more