The SCGP Art Program presents Laurie Anderson
The Simons Center Art Program Lecture Series presents a talk by Laurie Anderson on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 5:45 pm in the Simons Center Auditorium with a reception beginning at 5:00 pm in the SCGP Lobby. Tickets are no longer for sale; there will be a small quantity of tickets available at the front door. Remaining … Read more
2016 Playwriting Competition – Winners and Performances
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics are pleased to announce: The Winners of the Fourth Annual Science Playwriting Competition A Staged Reading of the Winning Plays, to be held Wednesday, November 2 The Fifth Annual Science Playwriting Competition Stony Brook University is at the forefront in … Read more
Reflections On How This All Came About. Conversation with John Morgan
Reflections On How This All Came About: A Conversation with Simons Center Director John Morgan on how he became the Center’s Founding Director. Interview by Maria Shtilmark.
I JUST LIKE PINK FLOYD. Conversation with Martin Hairer, Regius Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Warwick
Conversation with Martin Hairer, Regius Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Warwickorganizer and sole organizer of the Simons Center workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
Along Came Magic. Della Pietra Lecture Series Featuring Tadashi Tokieda
The latest exciting edition of the Della Pietra Lecture Series was delivered by Professor Tadashi Tokieda, the Director of Studies in Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Stanford. By Maria Shtilmark Prof. Tokieda, who likes applying mathematics to physics, and also applying physics to mathematics, … Read more
A True Gentleman. Conversation with Tony Phillips
After 50 years with the Stony Brook Math Department Anthony V. Phillips has officially become Professor Emeritus as of May 31, 2016. The following interview features toasts presented at the farewell tea, held in the Math Department Common Room to celebrate Tony’s life at Stony Brook University.
Derived categories and Chow groups of hyperkaehler and Calabi-Yau varieties: September 19-23, 2016.
Organized by: Daniel Huybrechts, Ljudmila Kamenova, Emanuele Macri, Eyal Markman The Chow group of an algebraic variety encodes information about its algebraic cycles up to rational equivalence. The study of Chow groups is intimately related to the study of the derived categories of coherent sheaves, as illustrated, for example, by recent results on rational points … Read more
RESOUND, September 8, – Friday, October 28, 2016
RESOUND Thursday, September 8, – Friday, October 28, 2016 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh with Margaret Schedel and Joo Yun Lee RESOUND Featuring the work of Memo Akten, Sougwen Chung, Seth Cluett, Yoon Chung Han, Carsten Nicolai, Jess Rowland Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center … Read more
Guest Speaker Dr. David H. Shoemaker – September 14, 2016
Simons Center Gallery + Art Program Guest Speaker Dr. David H. Shoemaker Director MIT LIGO Laboratory; Leader, Advanced LIGO; Senior Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute Realizing Einstein’s Dream: Observing the Signature of Dynamic Space-time Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:45 pm Simons Center Auditorium 103 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. David … Read more
Automorphic forms, mock modular forms and string theory: August 29 – September 2, 2016
Organized By: Terry Gannon, David Ginzburg, Axel Kleinschmidt, Stephen D. Miller, Daniel Persson, and Boris Pioline Dates: August 29 – September 2, 2016 The purpose of this workshop is to kick-start a 6-week program on the interface between number theory, representation theory and string theory. Specifically the aim is to investigate connections between string amplitudes, … Read more











