In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Moduli

Workshop: Wonders of Broken Integrability October 2-6, 2017 Organized by: Fabian Essler, Giuseppe Mussardo and Alexei Tsvelik Quantum Integrability is one of the most significant concepts of modern science, characterized by a wide spectrum of applications and fascinating mathematical properties. Striking advances in the fields of ultra-cold atomic gases, non-equilibrium and thermalization properties of many-particle … Read more
Project Meeting: SUSY Bootstrap November 6 – 8, 2017 For more information about the Simons Collaboration please visit their website: http://bootstrapcollaboration.com/
Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2017: September 10-13, 2017, SCGP, Stony Brook This event is organized by the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy and Geometry. For more information and to see the schedule please visit their website at https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-problems-2017/ Time SUN. SEPT. 10 MON. SEPT. 11 TUES. SEPT. 12 WED. SEPT. 13 8:30 BREAKFAST … Read more
Tuesday September 5, 2017 5:30pm Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics In the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the basic laws of Physics in the infinitely small – and the infinitely large – and how the two are intimately connected. New windows … Read more
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the latest issue of SCGP News, a biannual publication which reflects the Center’s mission, scientific and cultural events.
By George Sterman, Director of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Most of us would agree that addition and subtraction are simpler than multiplication and division, at least for big numbers. And this is not just for people who lack an affinity for math. When quantitative astronomy began in earnest, astronomers like Tycho Brahe … Read more
Young-Kee Kim Young-Kee Kim, an experimental particle physicist, is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. She has devoted much of her research to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying two of the most massive particles (the W boson and the … Read more
By Kenji Fukaya Recently there has been a discussion among mathematicians, as well as in press and several blogs, covering the developments in symplectic geometry. Professor Fukaya expressed interest in giving his opinion and we are happy to present it here: The set of the solutions of the equation x2 + y2 – z2 = … Read more
By George Sterman, Director of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics On October 9 and 10, the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) at Stony Brook University celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a symposium of talks by faculty and returning alumni, held at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. The Institute for … Read more
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.