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On June 4, Richard Bonneau of the Simons Center for Data Analysis (SCDA) and New York University (NYU) was presented with NYU’s prestigious Iakobachvili Faculty Science Award …

June 2015 – Present

SFARI held its seventh science meeting from April 12-14, gathering together more than 100 SFARI-supported autism researchers.

… investigators with expertise very different from mine. It provides a highly creative and innovative view of my own research.” SFARI science meetings, which began in 2009, have …

… aperiodic pattern with no translational repeat unit — one of the most complex patterns known.” This kind of theoretical work is useful since it can help guide new …

… is what the teams gathered to solve. Each team worked on the same datasets, donated by Adam Packer, a postdoctoral fellow working with Michael Hausser at University …

… Euiyeon Jung, Daniel M. Sussman, Shu Yang, and Randall D. Kamien, “Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245502 (December 2014) Daniel A. Beller …

… SCDA and David Greenberg of the Max Planck Institute, presented algorithms designed to tackle these complex issues. Patrick Kaifosh of Columbia University showcased an open-source software …

… melanogaster flies, mosquitoes and people, Vosshall’s research has yielded new knowledge about how odor stimuli are processed and perceived. Finally, Simons Foundation co-founder Jim Simons …

… sciences — from the modeling of current experimental data to the formulation of concepts that help scientists organize results and plan new experiments. “I’ve enjoyed the wide …

… York University. His career has included professorships at Paris-Sud University in Orsay, France; École Normale Supérieure in Paris; and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in …

… Evelyn Hutchinson Medal from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the Henry Bryant Bigelow Medal from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Alexander Agassiz Medal from the …

… examining large datasets. It aims to address the unsolved mathematical, statistical and computational questions whose resolution will illuminate the underlying science. The center is particularly interested in …

… Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Currently assistant professor of geobiology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Bailey is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation …

… holds promise to reveal the foundation for unsuspected and new therapeutic approaches. In this way, this very simple system can contribute important insight toward an understanding of …

… develop new imaging probes and methods and use these tools to study a variety of interesting biological systems. Our current research is focused on three major directions …

… for one summer and has visited since. Recently, Guth began a collaboration with Nets Katz of the California Institute of Technology; the two were able to prove …

… larger population of neurons, determining whether it is a chorister or a soloist. “The findings represent a previously unappreciated dimension by which we can characterize neurons,” explains …

The Simons Foundation is supporting the launch of the Kaiser Permanente Autism Family Research Bank, a project to gather genetic material from 5,000 families who have a …

… project to gather genetic material from 5,000 families who have a child with autism. The project will give researchers access to detailed genetic, medical and environmental …

The golden ratio is greatly hyped, partly for its beautiful mathematical properties but also for nonsensical reasons. Distinguishing between the two requires understanding that mathematics is about structures …

… more innovative science. The three philanthropies will award a total of $148 million over the program’s first five years, awarding up to 70 grants every two …

… Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry is to try and understand what kinds of questions and phenomena computer scientists care about, and to see whether anything I know …

… (Saran) Thanika Prembabu This year, Saranesh (Saran) Thanika Prembabu, who participated in the 2014 summer research program, received the Second Place Medal of Distinction for Innovation at …

… forms of engagement, yet we have relatively little understanding of the resulting behaviors or of how system design may contribute to those behaviors. In this talk, I …

… microscopy, a tool that transformed brain research.  Tank shares the prize, which is awarded annually by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, with Winfried Denk, Arthur …

… between investigators and postdocs. 2015 SCGB Fellows Katherine Cora Ames Project Title: Dynamics of Neural Coordination Across Hemispheres Mentors: Larry Abbott and Mark Churchland (SCGB members) Institution …

… Princeton University in 1972 and full Professor in 1978. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco …

… people would send preprints and reprints to their friends so only the in-crowd would be up to date. Now there is a resource for everyone.” ArXiv …

February 2015 – Present

… through outreach and scientific education. He is also a senior investigator in the UHM Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education. Within SCOPE, Church focuses on quantifying …

… Spergel’s primary research focus over the last few years has been the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a NASA satellite launched in 2001 to make fundamental …

… Chicago. He obtained his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the guidance of …

… amassed by David Reich and Nick Patterson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University and funded by the Simons Foundation. Paired with the HGP’s …

 

SFARI hosted a Circuit Dynamics Workshop to explore the role of neural circuits in autism.

… break new ground on how circuit function affects autism.

… award. “The Discovery Fund is a means to champion Stony Brook faculty who dare to tackle the biggest ideas in science,” says Stanley. “The findings from basic …

… with opportunities for personal growth outside of the classroom. “Being able to participate last year changed me, in that very moment,” she says. “I didn’t expect …

… ways to do it. But if you had to write a list of totally precise instructions about exactly how to put the sweater into the box, it …

… computer science and math,” says Spielman. “I pursued these two things separately and didn’t connect them for a very long time.” By combining mathematics with computer …

… valuable and rewarding occupation to develop the necessary framework for existing and “well understood” theories. If time permits, I will give a short discussion of recent work …

SFARI gathered together some 250 current and prospective autism researchers for a social on November 17 at the Society for Neuroscience’s 2014 annual meeting in Washington, D …

… present their research to the social’s guests. Selected for oral presentation this year were: ‘Cerebellar plasticity and motor learning deficits in a copy-number variation mouse …

December 2014 – Present

December 2014 – Present