In this issue of the Newsletter

The Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dava Sobel

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics was honored to host celebrated author Dava Sobel last spring for the Della Pietra Lecture Series. Read More…

Celebrating 20 Years: The Simons Summer Workshop

The 20th Simons Physics Summer Workshop (originally called the Simons Summer Workshop in Mathematics and Physics) was a celebration of the 19 successful workshops that preceded it. Read more…

The Problem of Monopole Scattering: And It’s Modern Symmetry Resolution. By Marieke van Beest and Diego Delmastro

The Problem of Monopole Scattering. And It’s Modern Symmetry Resolution. By Marieke van Beest and Diego Delmastro, Research Assistant Professors, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University

On Hyperkähler Geometry. By Ljudmila Kamenova

On Hyperkähler Geometry. By Ljudmila Kamenova, Research Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Mathematics Department

The Everests of Mathematics. A Conversation with Phillip Griffiths

Ron Donagi and Phillip Griffiths visited the Simons Center in April, 2023, for the Simons collaboration conference on Homological Mirror Symmetry. Crossing paths once again, they took the opportunity for a conversation about their early days at Harvard, Griffiths work in Hodge theory, his role as Director of the Institute of Advanced Study and initiative promoting science in developing countries, and the future of interdisciplinary mathematics.

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Juerg Froehlich (ETH, Zurich and IAS, Princeton)

Title: The role of anomaly inflow in the theory of chiral quantum fluids Speaker:  Juerg Froehlich (ETH, Zurich and IAS, Princeton) Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: To start with, I will discuss the electrodynamics of incompressible 2D electron gases exhibiting the quantum Hall effect. … Read more

SCGP Spring 2014 Newsletter

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

Illustrating Geometry Art Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: June 19 to August 1, 2014 Featuring the artwork of Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman Opening Reception, Thursday June 19: 5:00pm, Exhibition Viewing and Wine and Cheese Reception – Simons Center Art Gallery and Lobby. 6:00pm, Artist Talk by Henry Segerman, “Sculpture in four-dimensions” – Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Room 102. 6:45pm, Artist Talk … Read more

José Menor & RMSonce Project Mathematical Concert, Thursday April 24

Thursday April 24, 2014, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Auditorium, Room 103 Reception at 5:00pm Performance at 5:30pm Featuring José Menor:  Piano, Keyboard, Laptop RMSonce: Laptop, Visuals Performance Description: José Menor & RMSonce Project is an audiovisual proposal that brings together two Spanish artists coming from different fields (classical music and experimental electronics), who … Read more

Regularization Of Moduli Spaces Of Pseudholomorphic Curves – Katrin Wehrheim

This course aims to build a knowledge base on regularization techniques for moduli spaces arising from geometric PDE’s (in particular pseudholomorphic curves). Regularization techniques of the type discussed here were first developed in the 1980s as part of the construction of Gromov-Witten invariants (from pseudoholomorphic curves) and Donaldson invariants (from Yang-Mills instantons). They have since … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Kristan Jensen

Title: Deriving anomaly-induced response from thermal equilibrium. Part II Speaker: Kristan Jensen, Stony Brook University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Now that we believe that anomalies manifest themselves through macroscopic transport in thermal states, I’ll show you how to derive that transport from basic considerations of Euclidean field theory. To do … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Alexander Gorsky

Title: “Anomalous Zero Sound” Speaker: Alexander Gorsky (ITEP, Moscow) Date: Monday, March 17 Time: 4:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: We show that the anomalous term in the current, recently suggested by Son and Yamamoto, modifies the structure of the zero sound mode in the Fermi liquid in a magnetic field. http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4725     [box, type=”download”]Watch … Read more

Physics and mathematics of knot homologies: June 1 – 5, 2015

Organized by Eugene Gorsky, Sergei Gukov, Mikhail Khovanov, Vivek Shende, and Piotr Sulkowski Dates: June 1 – 5, 2015 The aim of this workshop is to exchange current ideas in physics and mathematics related to knot homologies. Intimate relations between knots and physics, found around 25 years ago in the seminal work by Witten, grew … Read more