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Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in the Stony Brook, New York area, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo , it is one of the State University of New York system's two flagship institutions .
James H. Simons was the chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook from 1968 to 1976. After deciding to leave academia, he then went on to make billions with his investment firm Renaissance Technologies. On February 27, 2008 he announced a donation totaling $60 million (including a $25 million gift two years prior) to the mathematics ...
Among the 50 U.S. states and the national capital of Washington, D.C., only five states do not have an R1 level university: Alaska, Idaho, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity
The Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center also known as Javits Center or Javits for short is the main lecture center at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. It is located in west campus south of the main Academic Mall. It houses many of the lecture halls in campus and most of the general first-year courses are lectured here.
The C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics (YITP) is a research center at Stony Brook University.In 1965, it was the vision of then University President J.S. Toll and Physics Department chair T.A. Pond to create an institute for theoretical physics and invite the famous physicist Chen Ning Yang from Institute for Advanced Study to serve as its director with the Albert Einstein ...
In terms of enrollment, the largest institution is the University at Buffalo, with over 31,508 students and the smallest member is the College of Optometry, with 408 students. [1] In terms of area, Stony Brook University is the largest public university in the state of New York. [2]
The Science Fiction Forum, founded in 1968 by James Frenkel, is a student club at Stony Brook University.. The club maintains a large lending library of science fiction, fact, fantasy and horror with over 22,000 volumes.
The Stony Brook University campus area is a census-designated place (CDP), [2] with a population of 10,409 at the 2020 census. [3] As of the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau defines the Stony Brook University CDP as a census-designated place separate from the CDP of Stony Brook. [4]