In this issue of the Newsletter
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Ten Years in the SCGP and 3 + 4 = 7
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Natural Language: Geometry and Physics
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A Word from the Directors: Remembering Jim
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My Career in Physics. A Biographical Research Summary by Robert Shrock
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Organized by: Jörgen Ellegaard Andersen (The University of Southern Denmark) Steven Bradlow (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University) Daniel Halpern-Leistner (Cornell University) Victoria Hoskins (Radboud University Nijmegen) Frances Kirwan (The University of Oxford) Margarida Melo (Universita Roma Tre) Anna Wienhard (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences) PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Moduli theory … Read more
Organized by: Simon Catterall (Syracuse) Juven Wang (CMSA, Harvard) Yi-Zhuang You (UCSD) David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge) The most common mechanism for generating fermion masses arises when scalar fields acquire vacuum expectation values in theories with Yukawa interactions. Such a mechanism is necessarily associated with the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. However, recent work in both the … Read more
Scientific Organizer: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Local Organizer: Martin Rocek (CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) The Simons Physics Summer Workshop is the Sixteenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the twenty-first in the series Simons Physics Summer Workshops. The theme of this workshop will be Landscapia—the landscape of … Read more
Organizing by: Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield, UK) Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University, USA) Andrew Neitzke (Yale University, USA) Martin Moeller (Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany) This workshop in Mathematics inspired by a circle of ideas originating in quantum field theory and string theory, particularly the study of the quantum field theories “of class S”. These field … Read more
Organizers: Lilia Anguelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Michele Cicoli (Bologna University) Vivian Miranda (Stony Brook University) Sonia Paban (University of Texas at Austin) Francisco Gil Pedro (Bologna University) Recent astronomical observations have reshaped profoundly the modern understanding of the Universe, regarding not only its contents but also its origin and future fate. The surprising discovery … Read more
WEEK 1: THE SYZ CONJECTURE AND COLLAPSING CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ) conjecture dates from 1996. It was proposed as a geometric mechanism underlying mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau manifolds. The proposal is that, at least near the “large complex structure” limit in moduli space, a Calabi-Yau manifold has a fibration whose generic fibers are Special … Read more
“We are very happy that Professor Nekrasov was awarded this amply merited recognition—probably the highest recognition in Mathematical Physics. He has made groundbreaking contributions in several areas of advanced quantum field theory, integrable systems, and in the use of powerful mathematical techniques to shed light into rather deep areas of field theory and string theory. … Read more
The Simons Center is happy to announce the 1st annual Simons math summer workshop. The workshop will take place from August 7-25, 2023, and will bring together mathematicians working in a circle of related areas, to learn more about the techniques and results of nearby lines of research.
Organized By: Mohammed Abouzaid, Denis Auroux, Ron Donagi, Maxim Kontsevich, and Carlos Simpson. To watch live throughout the workshop week, please visit: For the most up to date information please visit https://schms.math.berkeley.edu/events/ This conference is the concluding conference for the Simons Collaboration on “Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications.” In addition to reviewing progress in Homological … Read more