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The Della Pietra Lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley

Article by Lorraine Walsh

Charting the Next Decades of U.S. Particle Physics. From Snowmass to the Muon Shot: How the Community Builds a Vision for Discovery

By Patrick Meade. Professor, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University

Emergence of Order in Fluid Motion. By Theodore D. Drivas

By Theodore D. Drivas. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University

Shocks in Compressible Fluids. By John Anderson

By John Anderson. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University
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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

Piano Performance by Leon Livshin, Wednesday April 23

The Simons Center is please to present a piano performance by Leon Livshin. This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5:00pm Simons Center Della Pietra Family Auditorium, room 103 Crescendo of the Self: From Baroque Humility to Romantic Climax Bach 7 Preludes and Fugues Mozart Sonata in A minor … Read more

Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Memorial Symposium – Monday, April 28th, 2025

Organizing Committee: Luis Alvarez-Gaume David Goldhaber-Gordon Concha Gonzalez-Garcia Vladimir Korepin Barry McCoy Martin Rocek Robert Shrock George Sterman, Chair Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen Tzu-Chieh Wei Alfred (Fred) Scharff Goldhaber passed away last Fall.  Fred was a faculty member at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook nearly from its founding, and a valued … Read more

John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

Congratulations to John Pardon on winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for important results in geometry and topology, particularly in the field of symplectic geometry and pseudo-holomorphic curves: More information can be found here: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3984 https://breakthroughprize.org/News/91

Science Playwriting Competition – Staged Readings Wednesday, April 16, 2025

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to present the 2025 Science Playwriting Competition Staged Readings of the Winning Plays. First Place: The Physics of Fiction By Alex Dremann Second Place: Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter Third Place: Mother of Chemistry by Rex … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawl: Spring 2025

Art Crawl: Friday, April 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Free guided tours of Stony Brook University art galleries – join at any point! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges.  The art crawl offers tours of five galleries this spring—visiting each … Read more

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Edward Frenkel, April 21-24

The Della Pietra Lecture Series is pleased to present a series of lectures by Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley All talks will be streamed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live General Public Lecture  Monday April 21, at 5:00pm Location: Della Pietra Family Auditorium – 103 Reception at 4:15pm, Simons Center Lobby  Title: Where Does Mathematics Come From? Abstract: … Read more

Contact Geometry, General Relativity, and Thermodynamics: March 2-6, 2026

Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The workshop will bring together experts in contact geometry, topology, and mathematical physics to focus on novel methods and phenomena in the geometry of the space of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds, with an emphasis on causal … Read more

Contact Geometry, General Relativity and Thermodynamics: February 9 – March 20, 2026

Organized by: Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum) Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford) Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) Stefan Suhr (Bochum) The primary goal of this program is to investigate the causal structure on the space of Legendrian submanifolds—an emerging area of “hard” contact topology with deep connections to Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries, contact Hamiltonian dynamics, and Hofer-type … Read more

Flows of Reflectivity

Flows of Reflectivity March 12-June 20, 2025 Curated by Patricia Maurides (SBU Department of Art) and Karina Yager (SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception, Simons Center Gallery and SCGP Lobby 5:30-6:30 pm: Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and … Read more

Artist and Scientist Talk: Flows of Reflectivity

Flows of Reflectivity Art + Science talk by Patricia Maurides and Karina Yager Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Flows of Reflectivity unites artistic and scientific perspectives to examine glacier change and the dynamics of reflectivity through photography and video. Merging art and science, the exhibit deepens our understanding of … Read more

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