In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Moduli

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
The “Joint Science Meeting” is the central enabling activity of the partnership between the Tokyo Institute of technology and Stony Brook University as we pursue our common interests in science, engineering, technology, and especially the education and preparation of students. It is an opportunity for our faculty and students, as well as our external collaborators, to share … Read more
Organized by Mark Andrea de Cataldo, Francois Greer, Christian Schnell Shuttle Schedule – RTG Graduate Summer School The goal of this summer school is to introduce Ph.D. students and Postdocs to exciting recent developments in the geometry of algebraic groups and in modular representation theory. The school will consist of two morning lecture … Read more
Join us for a Free Guided Tour of the Art Galleries on the Stony Brook University Campus! Thursday, May 3, 3-5 pm The Simons Center Gallery is pleased to participate in Stony Brook University’s Spring 2018 Art Crawl on Thursday, May 3 from 3-5 pm. The free tour of campus art galleries begins at 3pm … Read more
Organized by Jayadev Athreya, Steve Bradlow, Sergei Gukov, Andy Neitzke, Anna Wienhard, and Anton Zorich Holomorphic differentials on Riemann surfaces have long held a distinguished place in low dimensional geometry, dynamics and representation theory. Recently it has become apparent that they constitute a common feature of several other highly active areas of current … Read more