SCGP Fall 2015 Newsletter
The Simons Center is pleased to announce the Fall 2015 newsletter. Read on for more details about our programs, workshops, special lectures and events: Click here to download the SCGP Fall 2015 Newsletter
Spring 2016 – Seminar Series “Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland systems”
Organized by: Nikita Nekrasov, Alexander Turbiner and Alexander Abanov Timing: Spring 2016 Abstract: Calogero-Moser-Sutherland many-body systems arose originally in the 1970’s simultaneously in Nuclear Physics, Mathematical Physics and Solid State Physics. Since then they were found in some incarnations in diverse branches of physics and mathematics such as the theory of quantum Hall effect, Yang-Mills … Read more
SCGP Weekly Talks – Spring 2016
Organized by Alexander Abanov SCGP Weekly Talks is a colloquium style series of talks aimed at all members and visitors of the Simons Center and the more general math and physics community on Stony Brook campus. The regular time and place for the talks are Tuesday, 1pm. During the workshops at the Center the talks … Read more
Penrose Tiling
The paving pattern outside the ground entrance to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics follows a design invented by Roger Penrose in the early 1970s; the design comes from his solution to the problem of finding the smallest number of tile shapes that can only tile non-periodically: the entire pattern never repeats, no matter how far … Read more
Entanglement and Dynamical Systems: September 7 – December 16, 2016
Organized By: Chris Herzog, Vladimir Korepin and Bruno Nachtergaele. Entanglement is the property of quantum states that most clearly distinguishes them from classical states. Entanglement is responsible for the fascinating effects in the low-temperature states of matter and the phase transitions between them that are the subject of much research in experimental and theoretical … Read more
2014 – 2015 Science Playwriting Competition
The 2014 – 2015 Science Playwriting Competition Winners Have Been Announced: 1st Place Prize = Moira Chas = “The Mathematical Visions of Alicia Boole” 2nd Place Prize = Michael Shodell – “A Number of Things” 3rd Place Prize = Colin West – “Counting Sheep” Honorable Mentions: Paige Borak – “Entropy” Hillary Bhaskaran – “A Planet is Born” … Read more
Riemannian Convergence Theory: November 9 – 13, 2015
Organized by Simon Donaldson, Kenji Fukaya, Hans-Joachim Hein, Song Sun Dates: November 9 – 13, 2015 The subject of the workshop is the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of sequences of Riemannian manifolds under a variety of curvature and other natural geometric bounds. Such Gromov-Hausdorff limits are typically highly singu- lar metric spaces. By studying their regularity properties, … Read more
SCGP Gallery Closing Reception – Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art – Nov. 12, 2015
Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art Closing Reception Thursday, November 12, 2015 Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Wine and cheese reception, 5:00 – 5:45 pm Talk by Anne and Michael Spalter Explorations of the New Order: Arranging Space Thursday, November 12, 2015 SCGP Room 103, 5:45 pm Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of … Read more