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Center for Computational Astrophysics Astrophysicists Reveal Largest-Ever Suite of Universe Simulations By Thomas Sumner

The AbacusSummit simulations will help scientists extract information about the universe from upcoming cosmological surveys.

Center for Computational Quantum Physics Paradoxical Material a Mashup of Three Different Phases at Once, Quantum Physicists Find

Center for Computational Biology HumanBase Sees Connections Between COVID-19 and Diabetes

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Scientific Computing Core

It develops, deploys and maintains computational infrastructure — from supercomputers to desktop PCs — dedicated solely to the use of Flatiron researchers.

Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity,
Equity & Advocacy (IDEA) Scholar Program

For distinguished scientists with a particular interest in diversity and inclusion

Scholars may engage in a variety of activities, such as working on scientific projects, starting new collaborations, mentoring junior scientists, and organizing or participating in workshops and career development events.

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Research Highlights

January 20, 2022

SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases

Fuqing Wu, Amy Xiao, R. Bonneau, et al.

Current estimates of COVID-19 prevalence are largely based on symptomatic, clinically diagnosed cases. The existence of a large number of…

Science of The Total Environment

January 1, 2022

Robust regression with compositional covariates

A. Mishra, C. Müller

Many high-throughput sequencing data sets in biology are compositional in nature. A prominent example is microbiome profiling data, including targeted…

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

2021

A Similarity-preserving Neural Network Trained on Transformed Images Recapitulates Salient Features of the Fly Motion Detection Circuit

A. Sengupta, D. Chklovskii, Y. Bahroun

Learning to detect content-independent transformations from data is one of the central problems in biological and artificial intelligence. An example…

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News & Announcements

Center for Computational Astrophysics

November 29, 2021

Sabbatical Visiting Researcher Program 2022-2023 – Center for Computational Astrophysics

Center for Computational Quantum Physics

November 10, 2021

Paradoxical Material a Mashup of Three Different Phases at Once, Quantum Physicists Find By Thomas Sumner

Center for Computational Astrophysics

November 08, 2021

Simons-NSBP Scholars Program 2022: Call for Applications

Leadership

Leslie Greengard, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, CCM

Leslie Greengard joined the Simons Foundation in 2013 as founding director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis, now called the Center for Computational Biology. Prior to that, Greengard served as director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Nick Carriero, Ph.D.

Co-Director, SCC

Nick Carriero came to the Simons Foundation in 2014 from Yale University, where he was a senior research scientist in computer science and co-director of the W.M. Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory’s high-performance computing resource.

Julianne Dalcanton, Ph.D.

Director, CCA

Julianne Dalcanton joined the Simons Foundation in September 2021 as the director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA). Her research specializes in the origins and evolution of galaxies.

Ian Fisk, Ph.D.

Co-Director, SCC

Ian Fisk came to the Simons Foundation in 2014 after working in the computing division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois since 2003. Fisk was the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment’s computing coordinator at CERN from 2010 to 2013, overseeing operations and improvements…

Antoine Georges, Ph.D.

Director, CCQ

Antoine Georges is a professor of physics at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair in condensed matter physics. He also has joint appointments with École Polytechnique and the University of Geneva. He received his Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure in 1988.…

Andrew Millis, Ph.D.

Co-Director, CCQ

Andrew Millis is co-director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics and associate director for Physics at the Simons Foundation. He has done fundamental research on heavy fermion compounds, quantum phase transitions, ‘colossal’ magnetoresistance materials and high transition-temperature superconductivity.

Michael Shelley, Ph.D.

Director, CCB

Michael Shelley joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 to work on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology.

Eero P. Simoncelli, Ph.D.

Director, CCN

Eero P. Simoncelli is the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience. Eero P. Simoncelli’s research interests span a wide range of topics in the representation and analysis of visual images and sounds in both machine and biological vision systems.