Simons Foundation Lectures are free public colloquia related to basic science and mathematics. These high-level talks are intended for professors, students, postdocs and business professionals, but interested people from the metropolitan area are welcome as well.
Upcoming
Fundamental Bounds on the Fidelity of Sensory Cortical Coding
Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Biology and Department of Applied Physics , Stanford University
Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteProfessor, Department of Biology and Department of Applied Physics , Stanford University
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- Virtual
x+y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Eugenia Cheng, Ph.D.Scientist-in-Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Eugenia Cheng, Ph.D.Scientist-in-Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Lecture
- Virtual
Past
Phenotyping Sleep
Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University - Lecture
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Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry
Shing-Tung Yau, Ph.D.William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
Director, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
Shing-Tung Yau, Ph.D.William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard UniversityDirector, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
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Progress in Understanding the Genetic Basis of Mental Health
Benjamin Neale, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associated Researcher, Broad Institute
Benjamin Neale, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolAssociate Professor, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associated Researcher, Broad Institute
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CANCELED: Escaping the Curse of Dimensionality
János Pach, Ph.D.Professor , Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
János Pach, Ph.D.Professor , Alfréd Rényi Institute of MathematicsMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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CANCELED: Plasma, Plasma, Burning Bright
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Ph.D.Head of Theory Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Ph.D.Head of Theory Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University - Lecture
CANCELED: The Quest for the Ideal Glass
Ludovic Berthier, Ph.D.Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Laboratoire Charles Coulomb
Ludovic Berthier, Ph.D.Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)Laboratoire Charles Coulomb
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