Events

We host events that bring together researchers, practitioners and the wider public to explore advances across mathematics, life sciences, and society.

  1. September 11, 2013: Quantitative Biology: Frontier at the Interface of the Physical and Life Sciences

    Event

    September 11, 2013

    9 a.m.–5 p.m. ET

  2. Foundation Hosts Symposium: Foliation Theory in Algebraic Geometry

    Conference

    September 3–7, 2013

  3. Stem Cells: Our Lifelong Tissue Rejuvenators And Their Promise for Regenerative Medicine

    Lecture

    June 19, 2013

    5–6 p.m. ET

  4. Antibodies, Behavior and Cognition

    Lecture

    May 30, 2013

    4:30–6:30 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Betty Diamond

  5. Parking Cars, Rolling Balls, and Falling Cats: The Concept of Holonomy

    Lecture

    May 22, 2013

    5–6 p.m. ET

  6. Climate Projections over North America in the Coming Decades

    Lecture

    May 8, 2013

    4–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Clara Deser

  7. New genetic insights into autism

    Lecture

    April 25, 2013

    5–6:15 p.m. ET

  8. New Genetic Insights into the Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Lecture

    April 25, 2013

    4:30–6:30 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Matthew State

  9. Water: Climate's Great Orchestrator

    Lecture

    April 24, 2013

    4–6 p.m. ET

  10. Climate Feedbacks: Magnitude and Uncertainty in Global Warming

    Lecture

    April 10, 2013

    4–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Brian J. Soden

  11. Non-Archimedean and Tropical Geometry (2013)

    Symposia

    March 31 – April 6, 2013

  12. The Most Random of All Possible Worlds

    Lecture

    March 27, 2013

    5–6 p.m. ET

  13. Hurricanes: Present and Future

    Lecture

    March 13, 2013

    4–6 p.m. ET

  14. Autism, Oxytocin, and Neural Signaling

    Lecture

    March 10, 2013

    5–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Richard Tsien

  15. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and Universality Class (2013)

    Symposia

    February 24 – March 2, 2013

  16. Probability & Intuition

    Lecture

    February 16, 2013

    5–6 p.m. ET

  17. Simons Symposium on Quantum Entanglement (2013)

    Symposia

    February 3–9, 2013

  18. Resting State fMRI

    Lecture

    January 31, 2013

    12:30–5:30 p.m. ET

  19. January 31, 2013: Resting State fMRI

    Event

    January 31, 2013

    9 a.m.–5 p.m. ET

  20. Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 Simons Public Lecture Series

    Lecture

    January 29 – October 8, 2013

  21. New Directions in Approximation Algorithms (2013)

    Symposia

    January 27 – February 2, 2013

  22. Animation, Teeth and Skeletons

    Lecture

    December 21, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Ingrid Daubechies

  23. The Mathematics of Mind and Brain

    Lecture

    September 19, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

  24. Knot Homologies and BPS States (2012)

    Symposia

    April 22–28, 2012

  25. What Has the Brain Evolved to Know About the Natural Olfactory World?

    Lecture

    April 18, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

  26. New Technologies for Measuring Neural Circuit Dynamics

    Lecture

    March 14, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

  27. Geometry Over Non-Closed Fields (2012)

    Symposia

    February 26 – March 3, 2012

  28. Taking the Universe's Baby Picture

    Lecture

    February 22, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

  29. Analysis of Boolean Functions: New Directions and Applications (2012)

    Symposia

    February 5–11, 2012

  30. Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems: Complex Dynamics, Decoherence, Topology and Information (2012)

    Symposia

    January 29 – February 4, 2012

  31. Quantum Mechanics and Space-Time in the 21st Century

    Lecture

    January 11, 2012

    5–6 p.m. ET

  32. Controlling Quantum Coherence: Toward New Paradigms of Computation

    Lecture

    November 30, 2011

    5–6 p.m. ET

  33. Beautiful Thoughts from Ugly Neurons

    Lecture

    October 26, 2011

    5–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Larry Abbott

  34. The Regulation of Fidelity in the Transmission of Genetic Information from Parent to Offspring

    Lecture

    September 28, 2011

    5 a.m.–6 p.m. ET

  35. Merging Mind and Machine: Creating technology to reconnect the brain to action

    Lecture

    May 11, 2011

    5–6 p.m. ET

  36. Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena at Global Scales

    Lecture

    April 13, 2011

    5–6 p.m. ET

  37. The Missing Circuits: Studying Entire Brains

    Lecture

    March 23, 2011

    5 a.m.–6 p.m. ET

  38. Attention Deficits in Autism

    SFARI Workshop

    February 11, 2011

    All Day

    Speakers

    Robert Desimone, Yuhong Jiang, Kami Koldewyn, Jim Tanaka, Elizabeth Pellicano, + 5 more

  39. When and How Can We Compute Approximately Optimal Solutions to Intractable Computational Problems?

    Lecture

    February 9, 2011

    5–6 p.m. ET

  40. Unbiased Reconstruction of Mammalian Regulatory Networks

    Lecture

    December 15, 2010

    5–6 p.m. ET

  41. Fluctuations, Information and Survival: Some Lessons from Bacteria

    Lecture

    November 17, 2010

    5–6 p.m. ET

  42. Normalization as a Canonical Neural Computation

    Lecture

    October 13, 2010

    5–6 p.m. ET

  43. Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks

    Lecture

    September 22, 2010

    5–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Michael Kearns

  44. The Power and Weakness of Randomness (When You are Short on Time)

    Lecture

    May 12, 2010

    5–6 p.m. ET

    Speaker

    Avi Wigderson