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  1. Eternal Sky Film About Jim Simons and the Simons Observatory Now Streaming

    May 13, 2025
    The documentary chronicles the ongoing quest to uncover the origins of the universe.
  2. SFARI To Fund 18 Patient Advocacy Group Conferences

    May 12, 2025
    SFARI will fund 18 meetings, with a focus on groups in the Simons Searchlight community, that bring together scientists and patient communities to share recent advancements and discuss …
  3. 10 Simons Foundation Community Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences

    May 7, 2025
    The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 150 new members to join its ranks. Among the inductees are 10 scientists who have served as Simons Foundation investigators …
  4. 11 Foundation-Supported Researchers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    May 6, 2025
    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently named nearly 250 new members, including 11 scientists and mathematicians who have received funding from the Simons Foundation. The …
  5. Muon Collider Project and Research Internship Program Awarded Targeted Grants in MPS

    May 1, 2025
    … region and raises awareness among local government funding agencies about the importance of supporting astronomy research. The MPS target grant will support Cenca Bridge’s three-month …
  6. New Series From Quanta Magazine Explores AI’s Impact on Science

    April 30, 2025
    … National Magazine Award for Best Single-Topic Issue, and additional series are slated for later in the year. “We hope that these ambitious projects reflect the depth …
  7. Simons Fellow George Lusztig Receives Lifetime Award From International Congress of Basic Science

    April 29, 2025
    The International Congress of Basic Science has named Simons Fellow George Lusztig as one of this year’s recipients of its Basic Science Lifetime Award (BSLA) in Mathematics …
  8. Quanta Wins 2025 National Magazine Award for Best Single-Topic Issue and Webby People’s Voice Award

    April 25, 2025
    … “The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.” That piece was also a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting. “This kind of …
  9. Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

    April 24, 2025
    The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) is a 10-year program that will support projects aimed at uncovering how opportunities for action offered by the world shape …
  10. Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, Joins the MPS Scientific Advisory Board

    April 4, 2025
    The Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Bryna Kra, Ph.D. to the Scientific Advisory Board. Bryna Kra is the Sarah …
  11. Flatiron Institute Becomes New Hub for Stellar Evolution Software Suite MESA

    March 31, 2025
    … Paxton’s retirement and beyond — and fostering a community of users and developers through workshops, events and training. “I never imagined MESA would have so many users …
  12. Simons Sleep Project Releases Data About Sleep Behaviors and Autism

    March 27, 2025
    The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is pleased to announce the release of data collected from its Simons Sleep Project (SSP), a study aimed at accelerating research …
  13. Applications Open for 2025–2026 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience

    March 27, 2025
    The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–2026 academic year …
  14. Joy Bergelson Named Head of Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences Division

    March 24, 2025
    … project that detailed whole-genome sequence variation in the plant. Bergelson serves on science advisory boards for TULIP INRAE in France, MiCROP in the Netherlands, the Blavatnik …
  15. Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release

    March 18, 2025
    The latest data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration includes the clearest and most precise measurements yet of the universe’s earliest light.
  16. Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Achieves First Light Milestone

    March 17, 2025
    … achieve the gamut of the SO science objectives, the SO team designed the LAT and its camera to have unprecedented sensitivity and excellent optical quality.” The LAT …
  17. Paul Wang To Take on New Role in SFARI Pharmaceutical and Biotech Relations

    March 11, 2025
    Paul Wang has assumed the role of Senior Scientific Director, SFARI Pharmaceutical and Biotech Relations.
  18. Ellen Taus Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

    March 10, 2025
    The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that financial executive Ellen Taus has joined its board of trustees. Taus was the Rockefeller Foundation’s chief financial officer and …
  19. CCM Researchers Win Competition To Map Neural Connections in Fruit Fly Brain

    March 7, 2025
    … opportunity to showcase the style of research that is done within CCM and the Flatiron Institute more broadly. “The competition aligned perfectly with the mission of Flatiron …
  20. Simons Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows

    March 3, 2025
    The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International are now accepting applications for the next class of Pivot Fellows. The program provides funding for today’s brightest minds to …
  21. Leaders across Science, Industry, Academia, Philanthropy and Public Sector Release Vision for American Science and Technology

    February 25, 2025
    Policy recommendations from the bipartisan, cross-sector group aim to ensure the U.S. remains the world leader in science and technology and secures its national security and …
  22. CCN’s NeuroRSE Group Hosts Two Software Workshops

    February 25, 2025
    The NeuroRSE group at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) recently hosted two software workshops that taught scientists how to analyze neuroscience data using new …
  23. CCM Scientist Jiequn Han Receives Early Career Prize From Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

    February 24, 2025
    … machine learning.”
  24. CCM Group Leader Marsha Berger Named 2025 John von Neumann Prize Lecturer by Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

    February 13, 2025
    … grateful to be recognized by my peers,” she says. “Knowing that my work has been used and helpful to others is a big motivator for me.”
  25. Study Led by SCOPE PI Jonathan Zehr Wins AAAS’s Newcomb Cleveland Prize

    February 12, 2025
    … postdoctoral work at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and New England Biolabs, Inc. He is currently a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Ocean Sciences …
  26. CCA Researcher Lorenzo Sironi Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

    February 3, 2025
    The White House announced on January 14 that Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Lorenzo Sironi will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor …
  27. Announcing Quanta Books, a New Imprint Dedicated To Illuminating Science

    January 29, 2025
    The new partnership between the Simons Foundation and book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux will release science and math books that entice and inspire readers. The imprint’s …
  28. 5 Simons-Supported Investigators Receive Awards From National Academy of Sciences

    January 27, 2025
    … Origins of Life (SCOL) Sutherland will receive the NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Studies — Stanley Miller Medal for advancing our understanding of the chemical origins …
  29. Announcing the 2025 Simons Foundation Presidential Lecture Series

    January 22, 2025
    Created for the NYC research community, these free lectures highlight the latest research in mathematics and basic science.
  30. CCQ’s Nicolas Regnault Named American Physical Society Fellow

    January 14, 2025
    Nicolas Regnault, a research scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Flatiron Institute, has been named a Condensed Matter Physics Fellow by the American …
  31. Symmetry: A Call for Artists, Scientists and Arts Organizations

    December 10, 2024
    … trios need to join us on June 6–8, 2025, in Upstate New York. Are there requirements for how artists, scientists and arts organizations should structure the …
  32. First Dish Built for South Africa’s HIRAX Radio Telescope Array

    November 25, 2024
    Astronomers will use the telescope array to trace the evolution of the dark energy tearing the universe apart.
  33. Simons Foundation Announces Third Class of Pivot Fellows

    November 5, 2024
    … analytical tools such as X-ray diffraction, microscopy and Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy has allowed him to explore the microstructural properties of materials in detail, contributing to …
  34. Jill Pipher Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

    November 4, 2024
    The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that mathematician Jill Pipher has joined its board of trustees. Pipher is the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown …
  35. Max Planck-New York Center on Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena Renewed

    October 7, 2024
    The quantum research center will continue its international collaboration for an additional five years with Cornell University as a new partner institution.
  36. Space Probe Proposed by Team Including CCA Scientist Reaches Final Round of $1 Billion NASA Mission Selection

    October 7, 2024
    … reveal the unknown about our universe. Establishing this new line of missions — the largest our Astrophysics program has ever competed — has taken that creativity to new heights …
  37. 2024 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Announced

    October 3, 2024
    The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International have named five scientists as 2024 Simons Fellows in Marine Microbial Ecology. The fellowship program supports promising postdoctoral scientists who intend …
  38. Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Award

    October 2, 2024
    … Award will be held at 12:00 p.m. (noon) ET on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Interested attendees can register here. A recording of the webinar will …
  39. SCOPE Investigator Benjamin Van Mooy Receives 2024 MacArthur Fellowship

    October 2, 2024
    The MacArthur Foundation has selected oceanographer Benjamin Van Mooy as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Known colloquially as the “genius grant”, this award provides $800,000 over five years …
  40. Simons Foundation Announces 2024 Class of Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Fellows

    September 30, 2024
    … University of Washington Anselmo Rivera Johns Hopkins University Gwen Roter University of Wisconsin–Madison Gloria Shen University of Washington Alishba Silat University of Texas at Dallas Ilana …
  41. Quanta Magazine Unravels Space and Time in Ambitious New Series

    September 25, 2024
    … the guidance of Art Director Samuel Velasco “These articles resulted from more than 60 hours of interviews with more than 30 quantum gravity researchers,” said Staff Writer …
  42. Flatiron Initiative for Computational Catalysis Co-Director Timothy Berkelbach Receives 2025 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry

    September 19, 2024
    Timothy Berkelbach, co-director of the Initiative for Computational Catalysis. The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced that Initiative for Computational Catalysis (ICC) Co-Director Timothy Berkelbach will …
  43. NSF and Simons Foundation Launch 2 AI Institutes To Help Astronomers Understand the Cosmos

    September 18, 2024
    Researchers will build a new breed of AI-powered tools to find the needles of discovery lurking in vast haystacks of astronomical data.
  44. Flatiron Research Fellow Aavishkar Patel Named Finalist for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

    September 17, 2024
    The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) today announced Flatiron Research Fellow Aavishkar Patel as a finalist in the Blavatnik Regional Awards for …
  45. CCN Director Eero Simoncelli Awarded Swartz Prize

    September 16, 2024
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) announced today that Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) director Eero Simoncelli will receive its prestigious Swartz Prize, which it annually awards to “an …
  46. The Simons Society of Fellows Welcomes Senior Fellows William Bialek and Michael Weinstein

    September 12, 2024
    … (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society. He received the Martin Kruskal Prize from SIAM in 2018 for his work on nonlinear waves and coherent structures. Founded in …
  47. The Transmitter Partners With World Wide Neuro and Brain Inspired, Building on Mission to Inform, Connect Neuroscience Community

    September 11, 2024
    … beyond. Host Paul Middlebrooks takes a close look at how advances in artificial intelligence are opening new avenues for studying biological brains and how a better understanding …
  48. 2024 Travel Support for Mathematicians Awardees Announced

    September 10, 2024
    … Wan Rutgers University, Newark Mu-Tao Wang Columbia University Changyou Wang Purdue University Xiaowei Wang Rutgers University, Newark Weinan Wang University of Oklahoma Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk Purdue University …
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