Category: Press Releases

Jill Pipher Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

Simons Foundation, November 2024

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that mathematician Jill Pipher has joined its board of trustees. Pipher is the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, where she served as vice president for research from 2017 to 2024. She directed the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics from its founding in 2010 to 2016. Pipher previously served on the scientific advisory board for the Simons Foundation’s Mathematics & Physical Sciences division. From 2019 to 2021, she served as president of the American Mathematical Society.

Former CCQ Flatiron Research Fellow Ricardo Rossi Awarded 2024 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics

Simons Foundation, August 2024

Physicist Riccardo Rossi has received the 2024 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics for his groundbreaking research in computational quantum field theory.

First Class of New York State Science Policy Fellows Announced

Simons Foundation, August 2024

The Rockefeller Institute of Government has announced the six scientists who will make up the inaugural cohort of the New York State Science Policy Fellowship. The program, funded by the Simons Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, gives fellows the opportunity to lend their technical and scientific expertise to state policymakers while gaining hands-on experience in state government.

Astrophysicists Use AI to Precisely Calculate Universe’s ‘Settings’

Simons Foundation, August 2024

The standard model of the universe relies on just six numbers. Using a new approach powered by artificial intelligence, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues extracted information hidden in the distribution of galaxies to estimate the values of five of these so-called cosmological parameters with incredible precision.

Bill Ford and Andrew Golden Join Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

Simons Foundation, June 2024

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that investor and business leader Bill Ford and organizational advisor and investment professional Andrew Golden have joined its board of trustees.

In the Path of Totality: How to Use an Eclipse to Connect People With Science

Simons Foundation, June 2024

Thousands of people from around the world gathered under the Texas sky to witness one of the universe’s most spectacular sights: a total solar eclipse, the last in the contiguous United States for 20 years. Attendees listened to live music, chatted with scientists, sipped eclipse-themed beers and anxiously eyed the clouds overhead.