In this issue of the Newsletter

Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros

By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)  

2017 Many Electron Collaboration Summer School: June 16 – 23, 2017

Fourth Annual Summer School: Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem: June 19 – 23, 2017 The Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem will hold its fourth annual summer school June 19-23 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. 55 collaboration members and guests will participate. Organized by collaboration … Read more

Mini-course: Modern Fluid Mechanics: From viscous electronics in graphene to conformal invariance and anomalies in turbulence

Modern Fluid Mechanics: From viscous electronics in graphene to conformal invariance and anomalies in turbulence Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/falkovich/ This introductory course is intended for those who does not know the subject and for those who think they do. First lecture, April 05, Wednesday 11:00, rm 313 (schedule of subsequent lectures by … Read more

SCGP Cafe Culinary Masters Series – The Cuisine of India, April 4, 2017

Join Chef Paolo Fontana at the SCGP Cafe for a cooking demonstration featuring the cuisine of India 6:00pm – Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 Admission $35.00 To purchase tickets please visit: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2911783 For more information please contact the SCGP Cafe at 631-632-2881 – www.scgpcafe.com – facebook.com/scgpcafe

Oakes Twins: SIGHTLINES, Closing Reception April 7

November 15, 2016 – April 7, 2017 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh Closing Reception: Friday, April 7, 2017 4:30 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center Gallery and Lobby 5:00 pm: Artist Talk: The Oakes Twins: Capturing Visual Consciousness, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics … Read more

Categorification in Mathematical Physics: April 9 – 13, 2018

Organized by: Eugene Gorsky, Sergei Gukov, Mikhail Khovanov, Andrei Negut, and Piotr Sułkowski Categorification is one of the deepest ideas in contemporary mathematics. As the name indicates, it aims to generalize various statements to a categorical level, replacing sets by categories, functions by functors, etc. It led to important developments in various branches of mathematics, … Read more

Mass in General Relativity: March 26 – 30, 2018

Workshop: Mass in General Relativity March 26-30, 2018 Organized by: Piotr Chrusciel, Richard Schoen, Christina Sormani, Mu-Tao Wang, and Shing-Tung Yau Due to the equivalence principle and the lack of an absolute space, the understanding of the fundamental notion of mass in general relativity has been subtle since Einstein’s time.  Arnowitt-Deser-Misner gave the well-defined definition … Read more

“Broadening the Computer Science Community: Examining successful strategies for significantly increasing diversity in STEM fields”

President Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College Thursday, March 9, 2017, 1:30-2:30 pm Simons Center Auditorium Reception to follow in the Simons Center Lobby Abstract: Computing is one of the least diverse disciplines in science and engineering in terms of participation by women, African-Americans and Hispanics, and the only discipline where participation by women has significantly decreased … Read more

Applied Newton-Cartan geometry: March 6-10, 2017

Organized by: Eric Bergshoeff, Gary Gibbons, Rob Leigh, Djordje Minic, and Dam Thanh Son. Recent studies of non-AdS holography involving Lifshitz spacetimes have led to a boundary conformal field theory coupled to an extension of Newton-Cartan geometry that includes twistless torsion. At the same time, effective field theories in Newton-Cartan backgrounds have been studied and … Read more

SCGP Remembers Ludwig Faddeev: March 23, 1934 – February 26, 2017

Ludwig Faddeev, one of the greatest mathematical physicists of the 20th century, passed away in the morning of February 26, 2017.  Ludwig Faddeev made a enormous impact in the mathematical studies of quantum field theory. Just to mention a few: his work with V. Popov on quantum non-abelian gauge theory made the Feynman diagram expansion meaningful, … Read more