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August 17, 2026The Muon optimizer, a community effort including scientists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, is poised to be the new standard in AI training efficiency. -
August 10, 2026Flatiron Research Fellow Nour Al Hassanieh develops accurate and efficient algorithms for solving wave equation problems, an endeavor with many potential applications. -
June 24, 2026By leveraging a classical mathematical function in simulations of molecular behavior, researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute drastically sped up the simulations while maintaining the same … -
June 23, 2026… cryo-EM data. To create the most useful tools, Flatiron researchers brought together an interdisciplinary cohort of investigators to provide input. Cossio and computational biophysicist Sonya Hanson … -
May 15, 2026Kabacaoglu, a former research fellow at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, is now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in England … -
April 28, 2026Flatiron Institute Senior Research Scientist Pilar Cossio builds tools to analyze experimental measurements and reveal how environmental changes alter the behavior of RNA molecules. -
April 23, 2026Mathematician Charles Epstein of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 22. He joins leaders in the … -
April 1, 2026The tool extends the capabilities of AlphaFold — a Nobel Prize–winning AI that predicts how proteins fold — by directly learning from raw experimental data. -
March 4, 2026Huang explores how symmetries and structure can help reveal new insights into the universe, aiding discovery in everything from cosmology to the development of fusion energy. -
September 17, 2025The medal recognizes Mallat’s scientific contributions, including his research into wavelets and the geometry of data. -
July 30, 2025The open-source modeling platform GeoClaw enables scientists to predict and prepare for deadly natural disasters by simulating complex geophysical flows. -
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 … -
February 24, 2025… machine learning.” -
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.” -
December 2, 2024The Polymathic AI team has released two massive datasets for training artificial intelligence models to tackle problems across scientific disciplines. The datasets include data from dozens of sources … -
August 26, 2024The new estimates of the parameters that form the basis of the standard model of cosmology are far more precise than previous approaches using the same galaxy distribution … -
May 7, 2024The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) honored Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) research fellow Florentin Guth, CCN guest researcher Zahra Kadkhodaie, Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM) distinguished …
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March 11, 2024Flatiron Institute computational mathematician Ruben Ohana is working within the Polymathic AI team to create foundation models that can help scientists solve a range of problems from climate … -
December 8, 2023For the first time, the five Flatiron Institute research centers (astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quantum physics), as well as its Scientific Computing Core and the Foundation Models … -
October 31, 2023Flatiron Research Fellow Brett Larsen is developing better ways to train deep learning models. -
June 12, 2023Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Charles Margossian is bringing the power of statistics to the people, empowering them to know when they’re on the right track to discovery. -
May 9, 2023Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Fruzsina Agocs develops mathematical tools to help scientists understand oscillating systems — from the earliest moments of our universe to how sound bounces off complicated … -
March 7, 2023Flatiron Institute mathematician Neha Wadia is developing a new set of learning algorithms to improve machine learning optimization. -
January 31, 2023… applications, from chip simulation to molecular modeling. In 2000, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognized the FMM as one of the top ten algorithms of … -
September 19, 2022Flatiron applied mathematician Jason Kaye is bringing powerful new approaches to quantum physicists to help them answer big questions about small particles. -
Computational Chemist Erik Thiede Named a Finalist for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists
September 21, 2021The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have named computational chemist Erik Thiede as a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young … -
Scoring the Brain: How Benchmark Datasets and Other Tools Are Solving Key Challenges in Neuroscience
August 25, 2021With standardized datasets, community-building challenges and simplified software bundles, research initiatives strive to bring uniformity to analysis in neuroscience. -
CCM’s Alex H. Barnett, Joakim Andén Among Authors To Win Best Paper Award at the PDSEC-21 Conference
May 18, 2021CCM’s Alex Barnett and Joakim Andén along with collaborators at NYU, Princeton University, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have received the Best Paper Award at … -
May 4, 2021Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional methods. -
February 4, 2021Underlying all biological processes are molecules and their interactions with each other. However, our ability to understand how these molecules function over biologically relevant scales remains very limited … -
January 21, 2021We are excited to announce the appointment of Marsha Berger as a new group leader in the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM) at the Flatiron Institute. Berger is … -
October 21, 2020Congratulations to Jun Wang, who has just moved to her new job as an assistant professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Wang … -
April 27, 2020Seven researchers supported by the Simons Foundation and board member Margaret Hamburg are among the latest group of prominent artists, scholars, scientists and leaders elected as fellows of … -
March 9, 2020The institute has grown from a beautiful proposal into a bustling hub for computational science in astrophysics, biology, mathematics and quantum physics. -
February 28, 2019The tool, called CaImAn, replaces the process of manually tracking the location and activity of neurons. -
December 3, 2018The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Stéphane Mallat as Distinguished Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM) at the foundation’s Flatiron … -
October 1, 2018… units came up with computational mathematics, I was dubious at first but was gradually persuaded that such a unit would act like glue, holding the whole institute … -
May 24, 2018On May 17, 2018, nineteen users of our spike-sorting software package gathered at CCB from eight different neuroscience laboratories from across the US and UK. We discussed … -
February 8, 2018The Flatiron Institute is pleased to announce that Jaeyoon James Jun will join the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) as a postdoctoral fellow with the Numerical Algorithms group. -
October 3, 2017The Flatiron Institute is delighted to announce that Alex Barnett has joined the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) as group leader for the Numerical Algorithms group. Barnett is …