Derived categories and Chow groups of hyperkaehler and Calabi-Yau varieties: September 19-23, 2016.
Organized by: Daniel Huybrechts, Ljudmila Kamenova, Emanuele Macri, Eyal Markman The Chow group of an algebraic variety encodes information about its algebraic cycles up to rational equivalence. The study of Chow groups is intimately related to the study of the derived categories of coherent sheaves, as illustrated, for example, by recent results on rational points … Read more
RESOUND, September 8, – Friday, October 28, 2016
RESOUND Thursday, September 8, – Friday, October 28, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh with Margaret Schedel and Joo Yun Lee RESOUND Featuring the work of Memo Akten, Sougwen Chung, Seth Cluett, Yoon Chung Han, Carsten Nicolai, Jess Rowland Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center … Read more
Guest Speaker Dr. David H. Shoemaker – September 14, 2016
Simons Center Gallery + Art Program Guest Speaker Dr. David H. Shoemaker Director MIT LIGO Laboratory; Leader, Advanced LIGO; Senior Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute Realizing Einstein’s Dream: Observing the Signature of Dynamic Space-time Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:45 pm Simons Center Auditorium 103 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. David … Read more
Automorphic forms, mock modular forms and string theory: August 29 – September 2, 2016
Organized By: Terry Gannon, David Ginzburg, Axel Kleinschmidt, Stephen D. Miller, Daniel Persson, and Boris Pioline Dates: August 29 – September 2, 2016 The purpose of this workshop is to kick-start a 6-week program on the interface between number theory, representation theory and string theory. Specifically the aim is to investigate connections between string amplitudes, … Read more
Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: September 6-15, 2016
Inaugural Conference: Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics, September 6-9, 2016. School: Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy, September 12-15, 2016. Organized by: Bobby Acharya, Robert Bryant, Simon Donaldson, Mark Haskins and Dave Morrison This event is organized by the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy and Geometry. For more information please visit there website … Read more
Congratulations to Nigel Hitchin, winner of the 2016 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics congratulates Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford and SCGP Trustee, for winning the 2016 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, “for his far reaching contributions to geometry, representation theory and theoretical physics. The fundamental and elegant concepts and techniques that he has introduced have had wide … Read more
Simons Center ArtSci Lecture Series: Speaker Valerie Gonzalez
ArtSci Lecture Series Programmed by Lorraine Walsh Discovering Where Art, Science & the Humanities Meet Lecture by Valerie Gonzalez Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 4:30PM, SCGP 102 ISLAMIC AND EAST ASIAN CERAMIC ART IN WORLD-CLASS MUSEUMS: COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES OF DISPLAY The West and East’s ongoing encounter with global consumer culture through which different worlds … Read more
Simons Center Art Program Summer 2016 Tuesday Concerts
Summer 2016 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 12, 2016 JOSE CONDE y OLA FRESCA 5:30 – 6:00 pm: Reception in the Simons Center Lobby and Gallery 6:00 … Read more
Simons Summer Workshop: July 5 to July 29, 2016
This Workshop is the ninth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fourteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s summer workshop will focus on the role of topology in physics with particular emphasis in recent exciting developments in the context of condensed matter systems as well … Read more
Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles II
The Simons Center will be hosting the Current trends on spectral data for Higgs bundles II Workshop. This event will take place June 11-12, 2016. For more information please take a look at their website: http://schapos.people.uic.edu/SpectralhiggsII.html.