IT FEELS LIKE COMING HOME — CONVERSATION WITH LUIS ÁLVAREZ-GAUMÉ
Maria Shtilmark sits down with the center’s new Director, Luis Alvarez-Gaume, theoretical physicist, who has come full circle upon returning to Stony Brook where he originally obtained his PhD.
THE MAGIC OF STRING THEORY
Conversation with Michael Green, FRS, Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a fellow in Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Interview by Maria Shtilmark
DELLA PIETRA FAMILY AUDITORIUM DEDICATION
By Maria Guetter On November 17, 2016, Stony Brook University, and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, recognized long-time supporters, the Della Pietra family, by dedicating the Simons Center auditorium the “Della Pietra Family Auditorium.” An event was held to honor the family — brothers Vincent and Stephen Della Pietra, and their wives Barbara … Read more
ATLAS Flavor Tagging / Higgs to bb: September 5 – 9, 2017
The aim of the workshop is to advance research in the fields of Flavor Tagging and Higgs searches/measurements with b-jets in final states, involving the respective working groups of the ATLAS Collaboration. One day of the workshop will be devoted to open sessions with both theoretical physicists and experimentalists attending. This joint workshop is the … Read more
Simons Center Art Program Summer 2017 Tuesday Concerts
Summer 2017 Tuesday Concerts The Art Program at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University is pleased to present a new music series free and open to the public: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 THE EARLY BIRD JAZZ BAND 5:30 – 6:00 pm: Reception in the Simons Center Lobby and Gallery 6:00 … Read more
Film Screening of “Whispers of String Theory”, Thursday July 27
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Art and Science Program presents, Film screening of “Whispers of String Theory” Author, Director, Producer: Ekaterina Eremenko Camera: Irina Shatalova Music: Arthur Khayrullin Duration: 24 min 30 sec Thursday, July 27, 2017 5:00 pm The Della Pietra Family Auditorium Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Stony Brook University … Read more
THE ELEGANT BRAIN
THE ELEGANT BRAIN Simons Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY May 23 – September 27, 2017 * Note extended dates Curated by Lorraine Walsh Art Director and Curator, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Art, Stony Brook University Opening Reception Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Reception: 5:30 – 6:00 pm, Simons Center Gallery … Read more
Matrix Factorizations in Mathematics and Physics: June 12-16, 2017
Organized By: David Eisenbud, David Morrison, Irena Peeva A matrix factorization of an element w in a polynomial or power series ring (more generally, in a local or graded regular commutative ring) is a pair of square matrices (A, B) of the same size such that AB = BA = wE, where E is an … Read more
Simons Summer Workshop: July 17 – August 11, 2017
This Workshop is the tenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fifteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s Summer Workshop will focus on strings and QFT without supersymmetry, including non-supersymmetric vacuum constructions in string theory, dualities in nonsupersymmetric theories in 3 and other dimensions, issues … Read more
Strongly Correlated Topological Phases of Matter: June 5-9, 2017
Organized by: Lukasz Fidkowski, Dan Freed, and Anton Kapustin Previously, phases of matter were mostly classified based on symmetry principles, or purely on the basis of topological properties. Recent developments however have highlighted the interplay of symmetry and topology as manifested by topological insulators and other symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, and by symmetry enrichment … Read more