It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons, on May 10, 2024, at the age of 86, in New York City.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Marilyn H. Simons, board chair of the Simons Foundation, to its 2024 class of new members.
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that Samir Patel has joined Quanta Magazine as editor-in-chief. In the role, Patel will oversee the editorially independent publication’s Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of math and science.
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Avi Wigderson the winner of the 2023 A.M. Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation and for his decades of intellectual leadership in theoretical computer science.”
The American Physical Society (APS) has named LaToya Anderson one of the top undergraduate presenters at its 2024 March Meeting in Minneapolis. Anderson is an associate research analyst at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and a senior at Brooklyn College.
Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ironically, some of the universe’s brightest objects.
Joint release with the European Space Agency and New York University.
The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International are now accepting applications for the next class of Pivot Fellows. The program provides funding for today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field in mathematics or the natural sciences.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded neuroscientist SueYeon Chung one of its prestigious research fellowships. The honor recognizes “early-career researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.”
The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International have made a $75 million gift to the City University of New York (CUNY) to bolster the university’s status as a hub for cutting-edge computational science.