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)  

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.  

Third Annual Summer School: Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem: June 20 – 24, 2016

The Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem will hold its third annual summer school June 20-24 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. 55 collaboration members and guests will participate. Organized by collaboration scientist Steve White, the school will focus on new developments in the density matrix renormalization group, tensor networks … Read more

Buckminster Fuller: Inventing for Today

Simons Center Gallery Opening Reception Buckminster Fuller: Inventing for Today Monday, May 9 – Thursday, August 25, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center Gallery and Lobby 5:45 pm: Guest Speaker: Kurt Przybilla, Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, SCGP … Read more

Between Dynamics and Spectral Theory: June 6 – 10, 2016

Organized by: William Yessen and Zhenghe Zhang Dates: June 6 – 10, 2016 The study of 1D discrete Schroedinger equation lies across physics, spectral theory, and dynamical systems. It models the motion of a quantum particle in a disordered medium. The evolution of motion is studied via the spectral theory of the Schroedinger operator. For … Read more

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: May 16 – 20, 2016

Organized by Martin Hairer Stochastic partial differential equations allow to describe phenomena that vary in both space and time and are subject to random influences. They arise naturally in a variety of contexts, including the description of the large-scale behaviour of random systems in statistical mechanics, the modelling of forward interest rates, the description of … Read more