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)  

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Simon Donaldson

Title: Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Simon Donaldson, SCGP Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Time: 9:30am – 10:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Dietmar Salamon

Title: Floer Theory and the Fueter Equation Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Dietmar Salamon, ETH Zurich Date: Monday, September 8, 2014 Time: 9:30am – 10:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

Workshop Organizer Information

Workshop Organizer Timeline The Simons Center follows a strict timeline to have efficient and successful workshops.  Please see the chart below for a general timeline for organizing a workshop.   SCGP Workshop Organizer Timeline Activity Deadline Submit workshop proposal to the Simons Center Scientific Advisory Committee. For complete instructions on how to apply to organize … Read more

Gauge Theory Program Seminar: Hidetoshi Awata

Title: On Five-dimensional AGT Relations Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Hidetoshi Awata, Nagoya University Date: Thursday, September 4, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

Gauge Theory Program Seminar: Opening Discussion by Nikita Nekrasov and Samson Shatshvili

Title: Opening of the program and discussion of main topics by Nikita Nekrasov and Samson Shatshvili Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory

Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Organized by Anton Kapustin, Nikita Nekrasov, Samson Shatashvili, Volker Schomerus, and Konstantin Zarembo September 2 – December 19, 2014 The interplay between the supersymmetric gauge theories and (non-supersymmetric) integrable theories in various dimensions is a puzzling development of several decades of research. In recent years … Read more

SCGP Cafe at Harvest East End 2014

Read about the SCGP Cafe featured at this years Harvest East End Festival – congrats Chef Paolo Fontana and the SCGP Cafe team on a job well done!                         For more information visit: Wine Enthusiast or Dans Papers

G2 Manifolds

G2 Manifolds Organized by Mark Haskins, Dietmar Salamon, and Simon Donaldson August 18 – October 3, 2014 This program seeks to connect recent developments and open questions in the theory of compact manifolds with special or exceptional holonomy (especially G_2 manifolds) with other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics: differential topology, algebraic geometry, (non compact) Calabi-Yau … Read more

Call for Proposals for Scientific Programs, 2015-16

Call for Proposals for Scientific Programs The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) at Stony Brook University is seeking proposals for scientific programs to be held in the 2015-16 academic year. The Simons Center is a research center devoted to furthering fundamental knowledge in geometry and theoretical physics, especially knowledge at the interface of … Read more