C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics

2013-2014 Science Playwrighting Competition: WINNERS

Friday, 21 March 2014 09:22 administrator

Institute Professor Christopher Herzog, with support from the YITP and in collaboration with the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the Theatre Arts Department, organized the second SBU Science Playwriting Competition. The winning entries will receive staged readings on Wednesday, April 30, 2013 at the Simons Center. More details can be found at the website http://www.scgp.stonybrook.edu/scienceplays .

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Aspects of Supergravity, January 6 - 10, 2014.

Monday, 23 December 2013 11:10 administrator

Supergravity is one of the YITP's and Stony Brook's signature contributions to science, and the Institute is collaborating with the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to organize a conference "Aspects of Supergravity", on the occasion of Distinguished Professor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen's 75th birthday.

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Lecture by Martinus Veltman

Monday, 23 December 2013 11:46 administrator

On January 9, 2014 at 5:30 pm, Nobel Prize-winner Martinus Veltman gave a public lecture on the Higgs particle at the Simons Center in the Della Pietra Lecture series. Professor Veltman was visiting to attend "Aspects of Supergravity", the conference in honor of Peter van Nieuwenhuizen. More information at http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/9540.

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Our Man in Stockholm

Friday, 20 December 2013 14:19 administrator

YITP and Department Professor Emeritus John (Jack) Smith travelled to the 2013 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony as the guest of Peter Higgs, who shared the Physics Prize with Francois Englert for proposing what is known colloquially as the "Higgs boson", discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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