In this lecture, Dr. Holger Müller will explain recent experimental searches for certain models of dark energy. How can it be that dark energy, which is supposedly ubiquitous in the cosmos, has never been observed in experiments?
In this lecture, Gordon Fishell will describe his investigations of the developmental and genetic origins of interneuron development.
In this lecture, Brian Keating will discuss the search for the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and measurements by the POLARBEAR telescope, which pave the way for the upcoming Simons Array.
In this lecture, Andrew Marks will present new data on the high-resolution structure of the mammalian RyR1/intracellular calcium-release channel obtained using cryogenic electron-microscopy.
In this lecture, Gerald Rubin will discuss efforts to develop and apply the tools that will be required for a comprehensive analysis of the anatomy and function of the fly brain at the level of individual cell types and circuits, using examples from his lab’s recent work on visual perception, as well as the mechanisms of learning and memory.
In this lecture, F. DuBois Bowman will discuss how he and his colleagues are working to identify functional or anatomical properties of the brain that reliably distinguish individuals with Parkinson's disease from healthy controls.
In this lecture, Juna Kollmeier will take you on a cosmic journey, starting with the infant universe and explain the current thinking about how “structure” emerges from this humble start.
In this lecture, Dr. Gloria Coruzzi will focus on time — building predictive network models based on time-series transcriptome data, and perturbing transcription networks in time.
This talk will outline the current state of genetics research in autism, highlight some of the key findings that remain to be discovered, and consider how these findings could ultimately benefit individuals with autism and their families.
In this lecture, Catherine Monk will describe her lab’s studies on women in the perinatal period and fetal and infant neurobehavioral development.
April 3-9, 2016 Organizers: Krzysztof Oleskiewicz, University of Warsaw Elchanan Mossel, University of Pennsylvania Ryan O’Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University Related Links: Discrete Analysis: Beyond the Boolean Cube (2014) Analysis...
April 10-16, 2016 Organizers: Werner Mueller, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn Sug Woo Shin, UC Berkeley Nicolas Templier, Cornell University Related Links: Geometric Aspects of the Trace Formula (external...
In this talk, Robert Kirshner will show how we discovered cosmic acceleration and present evidence that we live in a universe that is only 4 percent ordinary matter, with the balance being dark matter and dark energy.
April 17-23, 2016 Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Brendan Hassett, Brown University Yuri Tschinkel, Simons Foundation Related Links: 2012 Simons Symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields...
In this lecture, Alexei Borodin will illustrate how these two concepts work together in examples from random matrices to random interface growth.
Christopher Walsh will review recent work on ‘somatic mutations’ — de novo mutations that are present in some brain cells but not in all cells of the body — in several neurological conditions associated with intellectual disability and seizures.
In this lecture, Thomas Schulthess will show how recent developments in architecture have moved us away from traditional abstractions, forcing software development and mathematical algorithms to acknowledge the physical reality of computing systems.
A canonical task in machine learning is to fit a model to a dataset. Sanjeev Arora will describe models fitted to real-life datasets, which display randomlike properties that can offer insights into the algorithms used for the task.
In this lecture, Eric Betzig will describe advanced optical tools being developed to help scientists delve deeper into the complexity of biological systems.
Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / S. Wiessinger Thursday, June 23 — Friday, June 24, 2016 Simons Foundation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 Fifth Avenue New York, New...
Dr. Ruth O’Hara will present on the field’s current understanding of sleep in autism spectrum disorder.
Next-generation sequencing has the power to decode DNA in a matter of hours, but doctors still diagnose infections using methods developed decades ago. This lecture will describe how scientists are using the latest sequencing technology in combination with new, very fast algorithms to sequence a complex mixture of DNA from a sick patient and, in some cases, identify the causative agent of an infection.
In this lecture, Dr. Andrea Ghez will discuss the latest developments in the study of black holes, specifically how the environment around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is quite different than astronomers expected. She will also describe how studying the orbits of stars at the galactic center could improve our understanding of gravity.
Genetic disorders with high penetrance of autism symptoms provide an opportunity to investigate the cellular and circuitry abnormalities underlying autism spectrum disorder. Mustafa Sahin studies the basis of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) in cell culture, in animal models and in the clinic and will present an update on translational research in TSC.
Download the meeting booklet for agenda, abstracts and other annual meeting details: The 2016 annual MPS meeting took place October 20–21. It featured exciting talks about research at the frontiers...
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was built to search for and explore habitable environments. In this lecture, John Grotzinger will review Curiosity’s latest discoveries and describe the biological viability of ancient environments on Mars, along with the value of robots in geologic exploration.
Katepalli Sreenivasan will describe what is known about the convective phenomena in the sun, using results from basic turbulence modeling, numerical simulations, as well as helioseismology.
In this lecture, Dr. Beth Stevens will discuss recent work that implicates brain immune cells, called microglia, in sculpting of synaptic connections during development and their relevance to autism, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.
Humanity has pondered the meaning and utility of randomness for millennia. A computational theory of randomness, developed in the past three decades, reveals (perhaps counterintuitively) that very little is lost in such deterministic or weakly random worlds. In this talk, Avi Wigderson will explain the main ideas and results of this theory.
We are still far from elucidating how complex assemblies of neurons — that is, brain circuits — interact to process information. In this lecture, Michael Roukes will outline the immense complexity of such pursuits and describe efforts toward developing new tools for massively multiplexed, multi-physical interrogation of brain activity.
Dr. Joseph J. Fins will address how our evolving knowledge of disorders of consciousness has created an ethical imperative for a population often misdiagnosed, neglected and segregated from society. Meeting the needs of conscious individuals often mistakenly diagnosed as permanently unconscious is an emerging civil rights issue and challenge for basic and clinical neuroscience.
Thursday, December 8th – Friday, December 9th 2016Simons Foundation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium New York, New York Mark van Raamsdonk Nonlinear Gravity from Entanglement Download slides (PDF) https://vimeo.com/206297549 Horacio...
This talk will introduce an overview of some of the most important concepts and ideas from geometry and topology and then describe the recent interplay between these mathematical subjects and high energy theoretical physics, interactions that have been of a fundamentally different nature from earlier ones.
