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Center for Computational Biology The Fruit Fly Photographer By Mara Johnson-Groh

Developmental biologist Jasmin Imran Alsous knows that it takes a village to raise an egg cell. At the Flatiron Institute, she and her collaborators are working together to uncover the mysteries of how gametes move and develop.

Center for Computational Quantum Physics CCQ Researcher Fabijan Pavosevic Receives the Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award from the American Chemical Society

Center for Computational Quantum Physics Artificial Intelligence Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations

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Collaborative Work

Structural and Molecular Biophysics Collaboration

Underlying all biological processes are molecules and their interactions with each other. However, our ability to understand how these molecules function over biologically relevant scales remains very limited.

Max Planck-New York Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena

Columbia University, the Flatiron Institute in New York City and the Max Planck Society in Germany have created a partnership, called the Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena.

CCQ
| Columbia University
| Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (MPSD)
| Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (MPIP)

Learning the Universe

This collaboration, directed by Greg Bryan of Columbia University, aims to understand and determine the evolution and initial conditions of our universe, using observations via a Bayesian forward modeling approach.

CCA
| Columbia University
| Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
| Harvard University
| Stockholm University
| Institute D'Astrophysique de Paris
| Université de Montreal
| Princeton University
| Carnegie Mellon University
| Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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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

August 10, 2022

Chemodynamical Signatures of Bar Resonances in the Galactic Disk: Current Data and Future Prospects

A. Wheeler , I. Abril-Cabezas, W. H. Trick, F. Fragkoudi, M. Ness

The Galactic disk exhibits complex chemical and dynamical substructure thought to be induced by the bar, spiral arms, and satellites.…

The Astrophysical Journal

August 8, 2022

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey. VI. Galactic Chemical Gradient Analysis from APOGEE DR17

N. Meyers, J. Donor, T. Spoo, P. M. Frinchaboy, K. Cunha, A. Price-Whelan, S. R. Majewski, R. L. Beaton, G. Zasowski, J. O'Connell, A. E. Ray, D. Bizyaev, C. Chiappini, D. A. García-Hernández, D. Geisler, H. Jönsson, R. R. Lane, P. Longa-Peña, I. Minchev, D. Minniti, C. Nitschelm, A. Roman-Lopes

The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical…

The Astronomical Journal

August 7, 2022

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure

A. Jermyn, E. B. Bauer, J. Schwab, R. Farmer, W. H. Ball, E. P. Bellinger, A. Dotter, M. Joyce, P. Marchant, J. S. G. Mombarg, W. M. Wolf, T. L. S. Wong, G. C. Cinquegrana, E. Farrell, R. Smolec, A. Thoul, M. Cantiello, F. Herwig, O. Toloza, L. Bildsten, R. H. D. Townsend, F. X. Timmes

We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto_diff module…

arXiv: 2208.03651

News & Announcements

Flatiron Scientist Spotlight

October 03, 2022

The Fruit Fly Photographer By Mara Johnson-Groh

Center for Computational Quantum Physics

September 27, 2022

CCQ Researcher Fabijan Pavosevic Receives the Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award from the American Chemical Society

Center for Computational Quantum Physics

September 26, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations By Thomas Sumner

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.

Collaboration Director

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.