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)  

Knot homologies, BPS states, and SUSY gauge theories

Organized by Sergei Gukov, Mikhail Khovanov, and Piotr Sulkowski March 16 – June 12, 2015 The aim of this program is to understand new relations between knot theory, supersymmetric field theories, and string theory. Tremendous development in knot theory in recent decades led to the formulation of polynomial knot invariants, such as the Jones polynomial … Read more

1st Annual Art Crawl at Simons Center Gallery

Join us for the 1st Annual Art Crawl during the SSK Arts Festival at Stony Brook University! Tour 1 starts at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at 3 pm on Thursday, April 9, continues to the SAC Art Gallery and ends at the Simons Center Gallery with a reception.Free and open to the public. https://www.facebook.com/events/1716947488532329/

Seminar Series: Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland systems.

Organized by: Nikita Nekrasov, Alexander Turbiner and Alexander Abanov.   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 and Chern-Simons … Read more

SCGP Fall 2014 Newsletter

The Simons Center is pleased to announce the Fall 2014 newsletter. Read on for more details about our fall programs, workshops, special lectures and events: Click here for SCGP Fall 2014 Newsletter

Integrability vs. non-integrability in statistical mechanics: March 2 – 6, 2015

Organized by Tetsuo Deguchi, Anthony Guttman, Jean-Michel Maillet, Barry McCoy, and Alexander Zamolodchikov Dates: March 2 – 6, 2015 There is a fundamental paradox in statistical mechanics that we do exact computations on systems with very special symmetry properties and then apply the intuition gained to generic systems which do not have these symmetries. We … Read more

SCGP Seeks Next Director

About Stony Brook University: Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island’s scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. The University is a member of the … Read more

ZIMOUN: [KE]3, Art Exhibition Closing Reception, April 9, 2015

[KE]3 175 prepared dc-motors, 150 filler wires, 25 cotton balls, 3 screens, 25 cardboard boxes February 5 – April 9, 2015 Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh Schedule of Events: Opening Reception: Thursday February 5th, 2015 5:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Artist talk by Zimoun, 4:00 pm, … Read more