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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

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

Six-vertex model, dimers, shapes, and all that: March 14 – 18, 2016

Organized by: Pavel Bleher, Vladimir Korepin and Bernard Nienhuis Dates: March 14-18, 2016 The workshop will be devoted to recent results on the six-vertex and related models. The bulk free energy in the six-vertex model was explicitly calculated for periodic boundary conditions by Lieb. Then other boundary conditions were studied. A very interesting case is … Read more

Form & Line, March 3 – April 21, 2016

Form & Line Featuring the work of artist Beverly Ress and the Virginia Tech Industrial Design Students March 3 – April 21, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh, Art Director and Curator, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception … Read more

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