Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics: September 6-15, 2016
Inaugural Conference: Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics, September 6-9, 2016. School: Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy, September 12-15, 2016. Organized by: Bobby Acharya, Robert Bryant, Simon Donaldson, Mark Haskins and Dave Morrison This event is organized by the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy and Geometry. For more information please visit there website … Read more
Congratulations to Nigel Hitchin, winner of the 2016 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics congratulates Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford and SCGP Trustee, for winning the 2016 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, “for his far reaching contributions to geometry, representation theory and theoretical physics. The fundamental and elegant concepts and techniques that he has introduced have had wide … Read more
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
New perspectives on Higgs bundles, branes and quantization: June 13 – 17, 2016
Organized by: Lara B. Anderson, David Baraglia, Laura P. Schaposnik, and Vivek Shende Dates: June 13 – 17, 2016 The aim of this workshop is to connect recent developments and open questions in the study of branes in the moduli space of Higgs bundles with other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics: differential and algebraic … Read more











