Announcements

Math Meets Couture: Infinite Sums and Iris van Herpen at the Brooklyn Museum

The Simons Foundation is partnering with the Brooklyn Museum to highlight the math behind fashion designer Iris van Herpen’s Sculpting the Senses exhibition.

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2026 Targeted Grants to Institutes Announced

Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience

Applications for Conferences and Courses Awards in Neuroscience Now Open

Announcements

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Simons Foundation Announces 2026–2027 Class of SURFiN Fellows

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Applications Open for 2027 Fellows-to-Faculty Award Program

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Applications Open for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

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Former SFARI Investigator Karl Deisseroth Wins 2026 Nobel Prize

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Apply Now: New Grants To Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence

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Lars Bildsten Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

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Funding Awarded for 16 Courses and Conferences in Autism and Neuroscience

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Quanta Magazine Launches Weekly Dispatch to Cover How AI Is Changing Math

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Open Interval Invites Artists, Scientists and Arts Organizations To Explore ‘Turbulence’

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Now Available: Largest-Ever Whole-Genome Sequencing Dataset for Autism Research

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New Omics Data Available From Autism BrainNet

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Funding Opportunity Available for Empire AI Projects

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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Universal Statistics in Number Theory

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New Simons Collaboration Explores Defects in Physics

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Long-Read Whole Genome Sequencing Data Available for Autism Research

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2026 Travel Support for Mathematicians Awardees Announced

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Second Class of Simons Dissertation Fellows in Mathematics Announced

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Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research Groups

New Simons Collaboration Will Explore Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups

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Simons Searchlight July 2026 Update: New Autism Phenotypic Data Available

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Applications Open for Autism Genetics Workshops

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Announcing the Recipients of the 2026 Fellows-to-Faculty Awards

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Simons Foundation Awards 4 New Scientific Software Research Faculty Fellowships

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Simons Society of Fellows Welcomes Two Senior Fellows, 14 Junior Fellows

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Free Public Events Will Bring the Wonder of Mathematics to Philadelphia

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First Simons Postdoctoral Fellows in Plant Biology Announced

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Remembering Physicist and Emeritus Trustee Peter Littlewood

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Kelsey Martin Wins Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

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Quanta Books Releases The Proof in the Code

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CCN Researcher SueYeon Chung Named McKnight Scholar

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Travel Grants Help Hundreds of Mathematicians Attend ICM 2026

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Media Invitation: Fields Medals and Cutting-Edge Math at ICM 2026 in Philadelphia

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Funding Available for Synthetic Plant Biology Research

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Coming Soon: Open Interval, an Artist-Scientist Exploration of ‘Turbulence’

Turbulence: A Nexus of Creative Possibilities

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Applications for 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Now Open

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CCN Director Eero Simoncelli Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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New Ideas: Applications Open for Exploratory Autism Research Grants

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects CCM’s Charles Epstein

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2026 Simons Fellows in Mathematics Announced

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2026 SFARI Sex Differences Collaborations Announced

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Hopi Hoekstra Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

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Applications Open for Next Class of Pivot Fellows

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Simons Foundation’s Infinite Sums Initiative Celebrates Pi Day in Brooklyn and Across the US

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New Series from Quanta Magazine Explores the Infinite Evolution of Math

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New Cohort of Triangle Program Awardees Will Explore Symmetry Through Art

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NYU Launches Simons Center for Computational Geophysical Flows

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Announcing the 2026 Simons Foundation Presidential Lecture Series