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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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In the news

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

SEARCH: August 20 – 22, 2013

Organized by Patrick Meade, Michele Papucci, and Raman Sundrum Sponsored by the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics             Dates: August 20 – 22, 2013 The LHC has recently finished its 8 TeV run, which represents a factor of almost 5 times … Read more

Valentine’s Day Lunch at the SCGP Cafe! – 2013

    Join us at the SCGP Café for an extra special lunch, bring your coworker, colleague, a loved one, or come and meet a friend and share our “anything cuisine”:  the magic that happens when you combine fresh, high quality ingredients, prepared with skill and served with LOVE!   Extended Lunch Hours:  11:30 – … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program Lecture Series: Jesper Jacobsen, ENS Paris

Title: Critical Manifolds for Percolation and Potts Models from Graph Polynomials Speaker:  Jesper Jacobsen, ENS Paris Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Time: 10:00am – 11:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract: The first parameter to be fixed when studying a phase transition is the critical temperature. Somewhat surprisingly, this parameter is only known analytically … Read more

NOWHERE DIFFERENTIABLE: February 12-28, 2013

February 12, 2013 – 6 pm pre-lecture reception in gallery 5:30 pm Lecture by Ethno-Mathematician and Author of African Fractals Ron Eglash, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute February 20, 2013 – 6 pm pre-lecture reception in gallery 5:30 pm Artist-in-Residence: Saya Woolfalk will give a talk about her work and residency. She will be working on campus  … Read more

Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena at Global Scales

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Jon Kleinberg, February 26-27, 2013 Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and … Read more

Probabilistic Models for Cascading Processes in Networks

Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Jon Kleinberg, February 26-27, 2013 Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web … Read more

Conformal Geometry

Conformal Geometry Organized by Ilia Binder, John Cardy, Andrei Okounkov, and Paul Wiegmann January 7 – May 3, 2013 The Simons Center will host a program on `Conformal Geometry’ for the Spring semester of 2013. This will cover subjects representing some of the most successful examples of the cross-fertilization between mathematics and physics in this … Read more

Facets of Integrability: January 21 – 27, 2013

Facets of Integrability: Random Patterns, Stochastic Processes, Hydrodynamics, Gauge Theories and Condensed Matter Systems Organized by: Ilia Binder, Andrei Okounkov, Alexander Abanov, Eldad Bettelheim, Ilya Gruzberg, Seung-Yeop Lee and Razvan Teodorescu Once mathematicians got interested in random matrix theory two decades ago, it was recognized that methods previously used in integrable non-linear equations, could also … Read more

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