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Ten Years in the SCGP and 3 + 4 = 7

By Sir Simon Donaldson Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Natural Language: Geometry and Physics

By Nikita Nekrasov Professor of Physics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest university in Northern Europe. The tradition of conferring honorary degrees goes back to the same time yet a different place (Oxford University). It is a tremendous honor to join a long line of scholars linking the centers of knowledge mining and knowledge transfer throughout the globe. Read more…

A Word from the Directors: Remembering Jim

On May 10, 2024, James Harris Simons (Jim), passed away at the age of 86 in New York City. Jim’s lifelong passion for math and basic science were an inspiration … Read more

My Career in Physics. A Biographical Research Summary by Robert Shrock

C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Distinguished Professor Robert Shrock details a brief history of his career in physics, including a collection of research results.

Mathematical Billiards and Related Topics. By Alfonso Sorrentino and Sergei Tabachnikov

Mathematical Billiards and Related Topics By Alfonso Sorrentino, University of Rome Tor Vergata and Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University   
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Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Professor Zohar Komargodski Awarded the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

Homological Mirror Symmetry and Higher Genus Invariants: May 22-26, 2017

Organized By: Mohammed Abouzaid, Denis Auroux, Ron Donagi, Kenji Fukaya, Tony Pantev Mirror symmetry’s most spectacular predictions are those about enumerative invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds, which exhibit intricate structures when studied for all degrees and genera. This workshop will focus on new developments whose goal is to provide a conceptual approach to the study of … Read more

Dr. Carl E. Schoonover: THE ELEGANT BRAIN – May 23, 2017

Simons Center Art + Science Program Guest Speaker Carl Schoonover Axel Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University How to look inside the brain Tuesday, May 23, 2017 6:00 pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium, SCGP 103 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University ABSTRACT Our understanding of the brain depends in large part on … Read more

Continuum and Lattice Approaches to the Infrared Behavior of Conformal and Quasi- Conformal Gauge Theories: Jan. 8 – 12, 2018

Organized by Thomas Ryttov and Robert Shrock The evolution of an asymptotically free gauge theory from large Euclidean momentum in the ultraviolet (UV) to small momentum scales in the infrared (IR) is of fundamental field-theoretic importance. The evolution of the gauge coupling is described by the renormalization-group beta function. There is particular interest in the … Read more

Quantitative Symplectic Geometry: May 8-12, 2017

Organized by: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, Richard Hind, Michael Hutchings. Despite the fundamental importance of symplectic geometry, many basic questions about it are not well understood. Quantitative symplectic geometry is concerned with closely related questions of size and time in symplectic geometry. Specifically, when can one symplectic manifold with boundary (such as a domain in ) be … Read more

Simons Center ArtSci Lecture Series: Speaker Irene Gaumé.

ArtSci Lecture Series Programmed by Lorraine Walsh New Technologies in Art: Digital Creation Process and Digital Restoration Lecture by Irene Gaumé Thursday, May 11th at 4:30 pm, Della Pietra Family Auditorium, SCGP 103 The Simons Center Art and Science Program is pleased to welcome Irene Gaumé as a guest speaker on May 11th, 2017. Gaumé … Read more

Gauge Theory and Low Dimensional Topology: April 24-28, 2017

Organized by: Simon Donaldson, Kenji Fukaya, and John Morgan Gauge Theory and Low Dimensional Topology: With the introduction of Seiberg-Witten theory in the mid 1990s the study of the instanton moduli spaces in dimensions 3 and 4 took a secondary role. Nevertheless, these moduli spaces have a rich geometric structure that has not been fully … Read more

SCGP Spring School on Discrete and Computational Geometry: April 17-21, 2017

Organized by: Christopher Bishop and Joe Mitchell The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is running a week-long workshop on discrete and computational geometry April 17-21, 2017.The intended audience is graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in mathematics and computer science who are not necessarily working in this area, but are interested in learning what it … Read more

Beyond WIMPs: from Theory to Detection: March 27-29, 2017

Organized By: Rouven Essig, Jeremy Mardon, Samuel McDermott, Peter Sorensen, Tomer Volansky, and Tien-Tien Yu. The identity of dark matter is one of the most important and urgent problems in physics today. For more than three decades, the dominant paradigm for explaining dark matter has been a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) and most theoretical … Read more

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