Simons Foundation: Advancing Research in Basic Science and Mathematics

New Collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems Launched

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Mehrdad Jazayeri: Searching for the Cogwheels of the Brain

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Meet the Students Restoring Oysters to New York Harbor

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New Concepts and Computational Methods To Tackle Quantum Nature of Matter

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Education & Outreach
Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
Education & Outreach
Life Sciences
Education & Outreach

Funding Opportunities

Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Targeted Grants in MPS
NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems

Life Sciences

2017 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology

Autism Research

Bridge to Independence Award Request for Applications
SFARI Explorer Award
Grant Opportunities at SFARI.org

Simons Collaborations

Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics

This collaboration will advance the theory and applications of spaces with special holonomy and the geometric structures—calibrated submanifolds and instantons—associated with them, particularly in the two exceptional cases: spaces with holonomy or Spin(7) in 7 or 8 dimensions, respectively.

Theory of Microbial Ecosystems

The Global Brain

The Non-Perturbative Bootstrap

Cracking the Glass Problem

It from Qubit

The Origins of Life

Many Electron Problem

Algorithms and Geometry

Ocean Processes and Ecology

Homological Mirror Symmetry

Foundation Updates

Antoine Georges to Lead New Center for Computational Quantum Physics

The Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), in the foundation’s new Flatiron Institute, will begin operations in September 2017.

Major Pledge Will Boost Brain Research into Causes of Autism

Prime Numbers Reveal the Practicality of Impracticality

How Practice Makes Perfect: Dopamine Clues From a Songbird

New 2018 Funding Announced for Africa Mathematics Project

Flatiron Institute Pushes the Boundaries of Big Data

Station ALOHA, a Window Into the World’s Oceans

Crowdsourcing Expertise

Flatiron Institute to Repurpose ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer at UC San Diego

Multimedia

Science Lives: Vera Sós

Mathematical Impressions: Goldberg Polyhedra

Science Lives: Chen-Ning Yang

Mathematical Impressions: The Golden Ratio

Simons Science Series: The Energetic Ear

Science Lives: Michael Freedman

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An unexpected mechanism allows wasps to rapidly co-opt genes for new toxic functions.

The newly developed theory of emergent gravity, proposed as an alternative to dark matter, struggles in one of its first trials.

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