2019 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced
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Lecture Mapping Human Cerebral Cortex: Structure, Function, Connectivity, Development, and Evolution
David Van Essen, Ph.D.
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Lecture Dragonfly: Flights of Exploration Across Saturn's Moon Titan
Elizabeth Turtle, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Society of Fellows
Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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What We're Reading
March 25
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Physicists See New Difference Between Matter and Antimatter (Nature News)
The CERN discovery of so-called CP violation in particles called D mesons, which contain charm quarks, provides a fresh way to probe why matter exists.
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Mathematics of Sea Slug Movement Points to Future Robots (American Physical Society/Eurekalert)
Frilly surfaces that help slugs move may motivate future energy-efficient, soft-body robots, according to work by Shankar Venkataramani of the University of Arizona and a 2018 Simons Fellow in mathematics.
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Humans — Like Other Animals — May Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field (Science)
An experiment that measured the EEGs of people in a shielded room found that the alpha waves of one-third of participants changed when an artificially produced magnetic field rotated counterclockwise.
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Liquid Marbles Self-Assemble from a Pile of Powder (Nature Research Highlights)
Armored ‘footballs‘ can be coaxed into cylinder and dumbbell shapes.
