These workshops focus on the intersection between physics and mathematics, particularly in the context of string theory. One of the themes of the fifth workshop will be Strings and Supersymmetry Breaking.

The first workshop was held four 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 devoted to physical applications of topological strings, generalized Kahler geometry, twistors and twistor strings were among the topics that were explored in depth. It led to many new insights and papers.

The third workshop focussed on the geometry of string vacua and cosmology; highlights included Witten's discussion of the Langlands Program.

The fourth workshop had the theme String Landscape and the Swampland, and covered many aspects of string vacua, as well many other topics.

Some of the many papers that have come out the workshops can be found at

http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork-publications.html

Details from previous workshop can be found on the YITP webpage:

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 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. Please arrange for one letter of recommendation to be emailed to simonsworkinsti.physics.sunysb.edu . Participants will be notified by mid May, and will be supported by Simons Fellowships.

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 simonsworkinsti.physics.sunysb.edu for more information.

Further details of this summer's workshop will be posted here as they become available.