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Sandeep Robert Datta describes a combined 3D computer vision/machine-learning method that identifies behavioral modules expressed by freely behaving mice. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded four grants in response to the Novel Outcome Measures for ASD Clinical Trials request for applications. These grants will … -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI announces Novel Outcome Measures for ASD Clinical Trials awardees, (2) SFARI-funded publications. -
A study details the motor-neuron mechanisms that underlie learning and singing in zebra finches. -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI announces Functional Screen of Autism-Associated Variants awardees, (2) SFARI Blog: Making sense out of missense mutations. -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded five grants in response to the Functional Screen of Autism-Associated Variants request for applications. These grants will support … -
SFARI launched a request for applications in early 2015 that sought proposals to develop medium- and high-throughput screens to test the functional effects of de novo missense … -
Ron Graham is an American mathematician who is known for his work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, quasi-randomness and juggling. -
… from, what our place in the universe is. People are really excited and engaged by those questions.” -
SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded five grants in response to the Whole-Genome Analysis for Autism Risk Variants request for applications. We are also … -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI announces Whole-Genome Analysis for Autism Risk Variants awardees, (2) Availability of whole-genome sequencing data from the Simons … -
… counting. K. Costello discussed higher genus instanton corrections to the mirror correspondence from the point of view of BCOV quantization. There were complementary talks by mathematicians (Efimov … -
Nearly 20 years after his death, the famed mathematician Paul Erdős keeps on publishing, thanks to the conjectures he left behind and the friends who strive to prove … -
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SFARI is pleased to announce that it has awarded 28 grants (15 Pilot Awards and 13 Research Awards) in response to the 2015 Pilot and Research Awards request … -
This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) SFARI 2015 Pilot and Research awardees announced, (2) Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank partner to advance autism research, (3) SFARI … -
The inaugural meeting of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain reviewed the progress made in understanding the neural basis of memory, decision making and behavior -
Simons Foundation and Autism Speaks have entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest repositories of donated postmortem … -
… much-needed replication of published findings.” Adds Daniel Smith, Autism Speaks’ vice president for innovation technologies: “This important partnership arms autism researchers with a higher quality resource … -
… million each. Larry Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, which carries with it an award of $100,000. More … -
… and serve as a focal point for computational astronomy around the world. David Spergel is the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 … -
Boris Leistedt of the Simons Society of Fellows blends statistics and cosmology to grapple with the nature of dark matter and dark energy -
… connection with the 2015 Abel Prize. (Used by the Simons Foundation with permission.) Click to be taken to the Nov. 27, 2011, Science Lives interview. -
… other fields and connecting subjects that people didn’t know were related is one of the most rewarding experiences.” Variation of Canonical Height Torsion points on an … -
Lectures and symposium presentations that will be given by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2015 in Chicago (17-21 October 2015) are highlighted. -
Researchers from the Genomics group of the Simons Center for Data Analysis, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Princeton University have designed a new online … -
The human tendency to wander, mingle and mate has left its marks on our DNA. Geneticist David Reich is uncovering those clues in order to determine how our … -
… here. Questions, including potential project aims, can be directed to: [email protected]. -
A Simons Foundation collaborative expedition aims to understand the daily interactions of the organisms at the base of the marine food chain -
… plasticity may contribute to neurologic or psychiatric disorders. One way to begin to address this question is to link the functions of adult-born hippocampal neurons with … -
A new understanding of how motor neurons fire should lead to a dramatic increase in performance of brain-machine interfaces -
Today, we’re announcing our annual request for applications (RFA) for SFARI Pilot and Research Awards. Letters of intent (LOIs), the short statements that precede full applications, are … -
… reconciling the laws of quantum mechanics and of gravitation. Perspectives gained from two decades of study of terrestrial quantum phenomena, in particular the recognition of the importance … -
… Institute of Technology “Neural dynamics supporting the integration of prior knowledge and sensory evidence in cortical circuits” https://mcgovern.mit.edu/principal-investigators/mehrdad-jazayeri http://bcs … -
… waves and numerical relativity, as well as string theory, particle physics and cosmology. ICTS hosts programs and conferences that bring together outstanding scientists to work on the … -
The reasons for doing basic research go well beyond the creation of new applications and technologies -
In the Simons Foundation’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, dozens of physicists spend a morning mass-editing the online encyclopedia -
Studies of simplex families — those that have only one member with autism, rather than multiple members — are providing details of the disorder’s genetic basis -
A collaboration looking at the micro-organisms in the seas aims to enhance our understanding of ocean processes and ecology -
… Kleiner. Bruce Kleiner, New York University Bruce Kleiner, a principal investigator in the Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry, was also a 2014 Simons Fellow in Mathematics … -
The Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program teaches students problem-solving techniques that will serve them throughout their mathematical careers -
The behavior of electrons dictates the properties of materials, but characterizing all their complex interactions has often proved impossible. A concerted effort aims to break that intractability