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)  

Equivariant Gromov-Witten Theory and Applications: May 12 – 16, 2014

Application for workshop is now closed. May 12-16, 2014, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Organizing Committee: Eduardo Gonzalez, University of Massachusetts at Boston, eduardo@math.umb.edu Chris Woodward, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, ctw@math.rutgers.edu Workshop Description: The focus of the workshop will be on new developments in Landau-Ginzburg mirrors of varieties with group action, quasimap and gauged … Read more

Mini Course by Dusa McDuff: Kuranishi Atlases

During the Spring 2014 semester, Dusa McDuff will host a minicourse on Kuranishi Atlases, Thursdays at 11:45am in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Seminar Room, 313.  These seminars are associated with the Spring 2014 program, Moduli Spaces of Pseudo-holomorphic curves and their applications to Symplectic Topology. Schedule, notes and videos can be accessed below: Download … Read more

Universal Synchrony Music, Sunday April 6

Universal Synchrony Music, Volume 2 By Sarah Weaver Universal Synchrony Music (USM) is a cosmic multi-year telematic music project in collaboration with the NASA Kepler Mission and NASA ArtSpace exploring musical, technological, and metaphorical realizations of synchrony.     Sunday April 6, 2014 4:00pmPDT Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, … Read more

2013-2014 Science Playwrighting Competition

The 2013-2014 Science Playwrighting Competition Winners Have Been Announced 1st Place Prize = Colin West, “Understanding” 2nd Place Prize = Bruce Futcher, “Searching for David” 3rd Place Prize = David Vazdauskas, “The Future Tells the Truth” Honorable Mention: Matt von Hippel, “Good Advice” Public staged readings to be held at the Simons Center on Wednesday April 30, 2014. Reception at 5:00pm, … Read more

Moduli Spaces of Pseudo-holomorphic curves and their applications to Symplectic Topology

Organized by Kenji Fukaya, Dusa McDuff, and John Morgan January 2 – June 30, 2014 Gromov-Witten theory, Lagrangian-Floer homology and symplectic field theory arise from the notion of pseudo-holomorphic curves, possibly with boundary conditions, in symplectic manifolds. All these theories rely in a fundamental way on Gromov’s compactness result for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves, … Read more

Workshop on Moduli Spaces of Pseudo-holomorphic Curves II: June 2 – 6, 2014

Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Kenji Fukaya, Dusa McDuff, and John Morgan. Dates: June 2 – 6, 2014 This workshop is an integral part of the program entitled “Moduli Spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves and their applications to symplectic topology.” The program and the workshop focus on two basic approaches to understanding the … Read more