In this issue of the Newsletter

Milestones and Prizes

Congratulations to John Pardon on winning the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for important results in geometry and topology, particularly in the field of symplectic geometry and pseudo-holomorphic curves, which are certain types of smooth surfaces in manifolds.

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces

From Billiard Dynamics to Riemann Surfaces. By Samuel Grushevsky Teichmuller Dynamics via Algebraic Geometry

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield

Random Paths and Purpose: A Conversation with Scott Sheffield. Interview by Evita Nestoridi

Random Paths to Quantum Field Theory

Random Paths to Quantum Field Theory. By Antti Kupiainen

Collapsing Calabi-Yau Manifolds: August 31 – September 4, 2015

Organizers: Radu Laza, Valentino Tosatti, Mark Gross, and Simon Donaldson Dates: August 31 – September 4, 2015 This workshop is organized in connection to the SCGP program on Moduli spaces and singularities in algebraic and Riemannian geometry. The main topic is the Riemannian collapsing and large complex structure limits of Calabi-Yau manifolds. This is a … Read more

Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art- Sept. 10 through Nov. 12, 2015

Manfred Mohr: Pioneer of Algorithmic Art Sept. 10 – Nov. 12, 2015 On view in the Simons Center Gallery Curated by Lorraine Walsh The Simons Center Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Manfred Mohr, an internationally acclaimed pioneer of digital art. After discovering Prof. Max Bense’s information aesthetics in the … Read more

Large N limit problems in Kahler Geometry

Organized by Robert Berman, Semyon Klevtsov, Paul Wiegmann, and Steve Zelditch April 20 – June 19, 2015 This program centers on the use of holomorphic sections of high powers of positive Hermitian holomorphic line bundles over a Kahler manifold to construct projective embeddings, Bergman Kahler metrics, and Gaussian random fields. The main tool is the … Read more

Seminar Series: Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland Systems, Vassily Gorbounov

Title: Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland systems Seminar Series: Mathematics and Physics of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland Systems Speaker: Vassily Gorbounov, University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We describe a connection between quantum equivariant Schubert calculus, the topic … Read more

Unveiling of the Iconic Wall – May 8, 2015

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce the unveiling of a significant artwork titled The Iconic Wall on Friday, May 8th beginning at 4 pm. This is a site-specific permanent installation of stone carvings illustrating equations in math and physics. An art exhibition titled The Iconic Wall: … Read more

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