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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

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
Professor Zohar Komargodski Awarded the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

Fluid flows: from graphene to planet atmosphere: March 20-24, 2017

Organized by: Gregory Falkovich, Alexander Zamolodchikov and Leonid Levitov Fluid mechanics in two dimensions has wide range of applications and possesses unique mathematical properties which are far from being fully explored and used. Even laminar and regular flows in two dimensions are of great interest ranging from microfluidics to emerging hydrodynamics of current flows in … Read more

2015-2016 Science Playwriting Competition – LAST CALL FOR PLAYS

The final submission date for entries to the 2015-2016 Science Playwriting Competition is April 1, 2016. The submission date has passed. We anticipate winners will be notified in mid to late May. The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, in its ongoing mission to explore the intersection science and art, announces a CALL FOR PLAYS … Read more

Stony Brook University Art Crawls: Spring 2016

Join us for the Spring 2016 Art Crawl at Stony Brook University! The Art Crawl is a free event with guided tours of carious galleries on the the Stony Brook University campus. Thursday, April 21 from 3 to 5 pm The tour will begin in the Skylight Gallery in the Charles B. Wang Center and ends with the Form & Line Closing Reception … Read more

The SCGP Welcomes Dr. Luis Álvarez-Gaumé

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is delighted to announce that Dr. Luis Álvarez-Gaumé will be joining the Center as its Director effective September 1st, 2016. Dr. Álvarez-Gaumé did his undergraduate work at the Autonoma University in Madrid, and his graduate work at Stony Brook University and MIT.  He received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University … Read more

Flat Holography: April 4 – 8, 2016

Organized by Arjun Bagchi, Glenn Barnich, Stephane Detournay, Daniel Grumiller, and Joan Simon Dates: April 4 – 8, 2016 Over the last fifteen years our understanding of quantum gravity in string theory has been transformed by the discovery and exploitation of D-branes and the AdS/CFT correspondence in string theory. The holographic principle, positing massive reduction … Read more

Film Screening of “The Discrete Charm of Geometry”

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics presents the movie “The Discrete Charm of Geometry” Directed by Ekaterina Eremenko Friday, March 18, 2016 – 6:00PM   5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, SCGP Lobby 6:00 pm: Introduction and Film Screening, SCGP Auditorium About the Film: The award winning film “The Discrete Charm of Geometry,” directed by Ekaterina … Read more

Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception: Form & Line, Mar. 3, 2016

Form & Line On view from March 3 – April 21, 2016 in the Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh, Stony Brook University with Mitzi R. Vernon, University of Kentucky Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2016 Wine & Cheese Reception, 5:00 – 5:45 pm Simons Center Gallery and Lobby Talk “Form to Product” by Mitzi R. Vernon, … Read more

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