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We are pleased to announce the 3rd Simons Workshop
in Mathematics and Physics at Stony Brook University, sponsored by the
Simons Foundation. This year, the workshop will run from July 25 to
August 26.
These workshops focus on the intersection between physics and mathematics, particularly in the context of string theory. One of the themes of the third workshop will be the geometry of string vacua, and the possible cosmological implications. The first workshop was held two summers ago at Stony Brook, and was extremely fruitful for the participants; major results that came out of the workshop include the exciting work of Vafa, Reshetikhin, and Okounkov on the relation of topological strings and crystals. The second workshop was held July 26 - August 27, 2004 at Stony Brook. The physical applications of topological strings, generalized Kahler geometry, twistors and twistor strings were among the topics that were explored in depth. Publications related to the second workshop include the following: hep-th/0408007, 0408171, 0408188, 0409149, 0409159, 0409243, 0409250, 0410122, 0410174, 0410178, 0411073, 0411163, 0411171, 0411186, 0411205, 0411238, 0411280, 0412015, 0412021, 0412044, 0412270, 0501115, 0503038, 0503155, 0506097, math.CV/0410294. In these workshops, we hope to facilitate an informal yet vital atmosphere, in which a core of leading researchers interact together and with promising junior physicists and mathematicians. There will be a light load of talks with typically one pedagogical and one research talk per day. As at the previous two workshops, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Univ.) will serve as Scientific Advisor, in residence for the duration of the workshop. We invite applications from researchers working in areas broadly related to the focus of the workshop. Junior participants, including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty, will be given priority, and will be supported by Simons Fellowships to supplement, as appropriate, funding from their home institutions. Some support may be available for senior applicants as well. The goals of the workshop make it necessary to limit the number of participants, but we hope to have as many as 10-15 junior visitors in residence at a given time during the workshops, and will consider applications for visits of 1-5 weeks in duration.
Applications should be submitted before the end of April,
by filling out the online form at
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/simonswork3/apply .
Please arrange for one letter of recommendation to be
emailed to simonswork The C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook are proud of their tradition of close collaboration, dating back to a joint seminar initiated by the Institute's founder, C. N. Yang together with James Simons. Today, string theory is a natural arena for this synergistic interaction. A large number of our faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are active in string theory and related mathematical areas. We anticipate that this workshop will continue the tradition of collaboration on a wider scale, with the help of the Simons Foundation, and we look forward to your participation.
Please feel free to get in touch with us at
simonswork
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonsworkII/ Further details of this summer's workshop will be posted here as they become available. |
insti.physics.sunysb.edu .
Participants will be notified by early May, and will be supported
by Simons Fellowships.