Mathematics & Physical Sciences Programs

Grants to Individuals

Simons Fellows in Mathematics

The Simons Fellows in Mathematics program provides funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations.

Travel Support for Mathematicians

The goal of the Travel Support program is to stimulate collaboration in the mathematics field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures. Read More

The Targeted Grants in MPS program supports high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis. Read More

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

The Scientific Software Research Faculty Award supports new research professor positions in existing academic departments to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. Read More

Solar Radiation Management

The Simons Foundation has launched an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to Solar Radiation Management.

Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics

The Dissertation Fellowship provides research support to excellent math graduate students in the final years of their Ph.D. studies. This program was created to honor the work of our late founder, Jim Simons, and his commitment to supporting the field. Read More

Simons Investigators

Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the foundation, enabling them to undertake the long-term study of fundamental questions. Read More

Grants to Institutions

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing is the world’s leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science.

Targeted Grants to Institutes

The Targeted Grants to Institutes program supports established institutes or centers in the mathematics and theoretical basic physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. Read More

Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory is a powerful new experimental cosmology facility comprising a set of millimeter-wavelength telescopes located at high-altitude in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.

Simons Array

Following completion of observations with POLARBEAR-1, two more 3.5 meter diameter Huan Tran Telescopes have been deployed at UCSD's James Ax Observatory. This project, known as the "Simons Array", includes more than 20,000 "POLARBEAR-2 style detectors, cooled nearly to absolute zero. The Simons Array provides an unmatched combination of mapping speed, frequency, and sky coverage.

AMS-Simons Travel Grants

The AMS manages a travel grant program available to mathematicians who are within four years of earning their Ph.D. By having travel funds available, a significant number of U.S. mathematicians will be able to travel to conferences and to work with collaborators. This promises to enhance the early stages of the research careers of these young mathematicians.

AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grants for PUI Faculty

The AMS manages a program to foster and support research collaboration by mathematicians, with at least five years of experiences beyond their Ph.D., employed full-time in tenured or tenure track positions at primarily undergraduate institutions in the U.S. This program aims to counteract the institutional barriers and limited funding options at these institutions, by providing modest, sustained support in an effort to impact the research efforts of the faculty, the visibility of their institutions, and the profession in general. Read More

Simons Collaborations

Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

Simons Collaborations in MPS bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance in which significant new developments have created novel areas for exploration in the fields of mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. Read More

MPS-NSF Joint Programs

NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)

The NITMB aims to integrate the disciplines of mathematics and biology in order to transform the practice of biological research and to inspire new mathematical discoveries. Read More

NSF-Simons Research Collaborations on the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning

The two NSF-Simons Research Collaborations on the MoDL support research activities focused on a particular set of topics involving some of the most challenging questions in the general area of mathematical and scientific foundations of deep learning.

NSF-Simons National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes in the Astronomical Sciences

The NSF and the Simons Foundation jointly support two national AI research institutes in the astronomical sciences. These institutes focus on the co-advancement of astronomy, astrophysics and artificial intelligence through multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research on large-scale, longer-term horizon challenges.

Infrastructure

MAGMA (Software download)

Magma is a Computer Algebra system developed by the Computational Algebra Group at the University of Sydney, with many collaborators around the world. It specializes in areas of mathematics that make heavy use of algebraic techniques. The Simons Foundation's support covers the cost of use for all academic and non-profit research users in the U.S.

arXiv

The Simons Foundation provides funding to secure the sustainability of arXiv, providing a strong financial basis for the arXiv operation and building trust in the durability of a community-supported business model. The grant encourages long-term community support by lowering arXiv membership fees, making participation affordable to a broad range of institutions.

Conferences and Symposia

Simons Symposia

Each Simons Symposia series brings together mathematicians, theoretical physicists and/or theoretical computer scientists to interact and collaborate in a series of up to three symposia, held every second year and focusing on one topic or a tightly connected group of topics. Read More