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… Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1997; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow 1997–99; University of California, Berkeley, Assistant … -
A video interview, conducted on Feb. 22, 2011, with the Nobel Prize winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang. A video interview, conducted on Feb. 22, 2011, with the Nobel … -
More than 100 investigators and clinicians who worked together on the Simons Simplex Collection gathered in New York City to celebrate their landmark achievement in autism research. -
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce a challenge grant of $50M to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in support of its Reimagining Stony … -
… 18 August, 1952, after a nine-day crossing, Hirzebruch stepped off the Ryndam of the Holland America Line in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he was met by … -
This talk describes experimental progress toward controlling quantum mechanical coherence and entanglement in a solid-state environment. After describing what coherence and entanglement are, I will explain why … -
… transformations of sensory encoding in olfaction, and the dynamics of internally generated activity and signal propagation in large neural networks. Most neural activity is generated internally but … -
A new conjecture has electrified computer scientists -
Researchers can use biomarkers to diagnose individuals with autism and to hone in on the underlying causes of the disorder. In July, SFARI held an informal meeting of … -
Attracting mathematicians from around the world, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is perched atop the Berkeley hills with commanding views of San Francisco Bay and the Pacific … -
… of molecular biology and the physical sciences: on genetics and genomics, polymorphisms and molecular aspects of evolution, signal transduction pathways and networks, stress responses, and pharmacogenomics in … -
SFARI scientific director Gerald Fischbach and principal investigator Catherine Lord of the University of Michigan published The Simons Simplex Collection: A Resource for Identification of Autism Genetic Risk … -
In a milestone for the autism research community, SFARI has finished recruiting families to participate in the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC). The foundation has now shifted from recruitment … -
Preliminary studies suggest that the so-called ‘love hormone’ oxytocin could improve some of the social deficits characteristic of people with autism. On 11 April, SFARI hosted a … -
On the MathOverflow Web site, mathematicians from all over the world answer each other’s questions -
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Children with autism often have behaviors that suggest problems with attention. It is unclear whether this attention deficit causes the other symptoms of autism or is a consequence … -
Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 1965 Soon after winning the Fields Medal in 1962, a young John Milnor gave these now-famous lectures and wrote his timeless Topology from … -
SFARI is pleased to announce the SFARI Explorer Awards program: an initiative designed to provide timely support to innovative, high-risk experiments relevant to our mission. -
… Research Council and the Scientific Advisory Board of the newly formed Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. He is the author of the … -
In November, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) launched a request for applications, calling for letters of intent from individuals who will conduct bold, imaginative and rigorous … -
Researchers need reliable methods to interpret autism candidate genes, including rodent models to assess the impact of genes on behavior. On 4 February, SFARI hosted a workshop to … -
… have to be studied at the molecular/cellular level, neural circuit level, behavioral as well as social levels, and in multiple species. Given this complexity, there remain … -
Robert Osserman of MSRI discusses Saarinen’s soaring masterpiece -
… Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCPs), computing approximate solutions to NP-hard problems, geometric embedding of metric spaces, unique games conjecture, complexity of financial derivatives, provable bounds for Machine … -
A study on a SHANK3 mutation highlights the danger in using research tools to inform decision-making in the doctor’s office. This sort of concern is one … -
North America’s only math museum prepares for 2012 opening -
… distanced me when I read about the history of mathematics. So, for example, I read a biography of the self-taught Indian mathematician Ramanujan and his famous … -
… professor in the department of biology at MIT and an Early Career Scientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2008, she received the Overton Prize from the … -
… theoretically. Dr. Leibler and his collaborators are developing new experimental techniques that will facilitate quantitative analysis of long-time population dynamics in microbial populations. In parallel, they … -
… candidate for such a canonical neural computation is normalization, whereby the responses of a neuron is divided by a common factor, which typically includes the summed activity … -
Several studies have shown that a micro-duplication within 15q11-13 — a region on chromosome 15 — on the maternal chromosome is associated with autism. The duplicated region contains … -
Mathematics is helping medical students and hospitals solve the two-body problem -
… He is an active member of Penn’s machine learning community PRiML, and am an affiliated faculty member of Penn’s Applied Math and Computational Science graduate … -
Much of the recent advances in autism have been on the genetic and behavioral levels of dysfunction present in the disorder. Comparatively little is known about altered function … -
Computer science proposes a new solution to one of evolutionary theory’s oldest problems. -
… respectively its power and weakness for making algorithms faster. I will address the role of randomness in other computational settings, such as space bounded computation and probabilistic … -
On 5 February 2010, the Simons Foundation gathered a panel of experts to discuss what initially appears to be a surprising and unrelated pair of subjects: autism and … -
Sharmila Banerjee-Basu, founder and president of Mindspec Inc., and Alan Packer, associate director for research at SFARI, have published an article describing a new SFARI Gene module … -
As the number of available DNA samples continues to increase and the cost of sequencing continues to drop, one can’t help but want to capture all of … -
Fever has benefits beyond its role in fighting infection. According to a prospective study published in 2007 and to many anecdotal reports, fever can improve cognitive function and … -
Autism research has attracted a remarkable diversity of scholars. Many of them have developed an understanding of concepts in fields that are not their own, but it is … -
… function defined over the entire manifold. It is very unusual for an integral that depends on a continuously varying parameter to take only integer values (as opposed … -
… many false proofs over the years, you start being suspicious, but this is completely different,” he added. “Their new method is very powerful. It’s clear that … -
… perspectives, strengthening the bridge between analysis and topology with each one. The index theorem had turned into a field, index theory. Even in all the excitement, no … -
The SFARI team is pleased to announce the launch of SFARI Gene, a new online tool for autism researchers. -
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior. Because there are no biological markers for the disorder, it is …