C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics

The C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics is proud to announce that three outstanding physicists will join its faculty in the course of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Integrable Structures and Low Dimensional Geometries
July 25 – August 19

Scientific advisor: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
Local coordinator: Martin Rocek

http://www.scgp.stonybrook.edu/?page_id=524

By this fall, three YITP doctoral will have graduated and taken postdoctoral positions:

• Ning Chen (advisor Robert Shrock) will join the particle physics group at Tsinghua University, Beijing;
• Chee Sheng Fong (advisor Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia) will join the INFN, Frascati
• Abhijit Gadde (advisor Leonardo Rastelli) will join Caltech.

Three YITP postdocs will also move on. Each has also been recognized by a prestigious award recognizing their work at Stony Brook: ...

The C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics will join with the Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), Japan, Caltech and Canada's Perimeter Institute as partners of the Humboldt University in Berlin, groups of the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris and the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto in a four-year European Commission Marie Curie exchange program. ...