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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)  
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John Pardon Awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Black hole physics from strongly coupled thermal dynamics: May 12 – June 13, 2025

Organized by: Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University) Robin Karlsson (CERN) Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria) Hong Liu (MIT) Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin) There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can … Read more

Black holes and strongly coupled thermal dynamics: June 2-6, 2025

Organized by: Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University) Robin Karlsson (CERN) Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria) Hong Liu (MIT) Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin) There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can … Read more

Gauge Theory and Floer Homology in Low Dimensional Topology: April 28 – May 2, 2025

Organized by: David Auckly (Kansas State) Aliakbar Daemi (Washington Univ-St Louis) Olga Plamenevskaya (Stony Brook University) Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis) Nikolai Saveliev (University of Miami) In the 1980s, Donaldson introduced methods of Yang–Mills gauge theory in topology, with remarkable applications. By the 1990s, research largely shifted away from Donaldson theory to Seiberg–Witten theory, and, a few … Read more

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Film

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University is pleased to share a new movie highlighting the Center’s research and faculty. Planned to be initially screened at the APS (American Physical Society) 2020 Conference, it will be aired at the APS Conference in 2021. Directed, produced and edited by Websedge. Script created … Read more

Guest Lecture–Book Talk, March 27. Robert P. Crease: “The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory”

Robert P. Crease The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory  (with Peter Bond, MIT Press, 2022). Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 5:00 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Reception at 4:30 pm, Simons Center Lobby A quarter-century ago, a nonhazardous leak led to permanent closure of a valuable research reactor at … Read more

Artist Talk: Ander Mikalson: “Score for the Big Bang”

Ander Mikalson Score for the Big Bang Thursday, November 9, 2024. 5:30 pm Simons Center Lecture Hall 102 Ander Mikalson discusses her eight-minute Score for A Big Bang featuring speculative sounds the cataclysmic Big Bang might have generated, in the form of a musical score. The composition and performance are sparce, highlighting choral voices and a pipe … Read more

Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov

Uppsala University, Sweden, awards prestigious honorary doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov, a world-leading expert in theoretical and mathematical physics and one of the world’s top researchers in modern quantum field theory and string theory. Nekrasov’s research covers both physical and mathematical aspects. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest university in Northern Europe. The … Read more

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