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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)  
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In the news

John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
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

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

SCGP Cafe Culinary Masters Series – The Cuisine of Spain, March 7, 2017

Join Chef Paolo Fontana at the SCGP Cafe for a cooking demonstration featuring the cuisine of Spain 6:00pm – Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 Admission $35.00 To purchase tickets please visit: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2891709 For more information please contact the SCGP Cafe at 631-632-2881 – www.scgpcafe.com – facebook.com/scgpcafe

Internationally Renowned Physicist Appointed As Chen Ning Yang-Wei Deng Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy

Professor Alexander Zamolodchikov Appointed As Chen Ning Yang-Wei Deng Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy Read the full article in the SBU Happenings HERE http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/facultystaff/internationally-renowned-physicist-appointed-as-chen-ning-yang-wei-deng-endowed-chair-in-physics-and-astronomy/ Investiture of Dr. Alexander Zamolodchikov (front, fourth from left) as the Chen Ning Yang – Wei Deng Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy at Bright Oceans Corporation, Beijing, on January 6, … Read more

2017 Science Playwriting Competition – Deadline for Submission, April 1, 2017

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, in collaboration with the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, announces a CALL FOR PLAYS for the 2017 SBU Science Playwriting Competition: Calling all talented playwrights with an interest in the sciences, and talented scientists with an interest in the theatre to compose a ten-minute play with a substantial … Read more

SCGP Cafe Culinary Master Series – The Cuisine of Italy – 2017

Join Chef Paolo Fontana at the SCGP Cafe for a cooking demonstration featuring the cuisine of Italy 6:00pm – Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 Admission $35.00 To purchase tickets please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2797524 For more information please contact the SCGP Cafe at 631-632-2881 – www.scgpcafe.com – facebook.com/scgpcafe  

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