Quanta Books To Publish Popular Math and Physics Titles by Terence Tao and David Tong
Simons Foundation, December 2025Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David Tong.
Groundbreaking Simulations Show How Black Holes Glow Bright
Simons Foundation, December 2025Surprisingly, some of the universe’s brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a team of computational astrophysicists has developed the most comprehensive simulations ever made of how black holes create these dazzling light shows.
CCA Senior Research Scientist Shirley Ho Named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences
Simons Foundation, November 2025Schmidt Sciences has named Flatiron Institute Senior Research Scientist Shirley Ho as one of its seven AI2050 Senior Fellows. The prestigious fellowships support scholars pursuing projects that could “help AI create immense benefits for humanity by 2050.” Ho and the other fellows will receive funding for three years.
Simons Society of Fellows Junior Fellow Thomas Werkmeister Receives Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award
Simons Foundation, November 2025The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded the Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics to Thomas Werkmeister. The prize recognizes doctoral thesis research of exceptional quality and importance in experimental condensed matter or experimental materials physics.
CCA Research Fellow Elena Pinetti Awarded Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
Simons Foundation, November 2025The annual award recognizes outstanding elementary particle physics research performed by a physicist who recently obtained their Ph.D.
Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Prize–Winning Physicist, Dies at 103
Simons Foundation, October 2025Nobel Prize–winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang died on October 18 in Beijing. He made multiple contributions to the fields of gauge theory, particle physics, condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and integrable systems.
CCM Distinguished Research Scientist Stéphane Mallat Awarded CNRS Gold Medal
Simons Foundation, September 2025The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has awarded mathematician Stéphane Mallat the 2025 CNRS Gold Medal for his “exceptional contributions to the dynamism and influence of French research.” The award announcement highlights Mallat’s influential research on wavelets and the impact of his contributions to the fields of signal processing and artificial intelligence.
Announcing the First Scientific Software Research Faculty Fellows
Simons Foundation, September 2025The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the first recipients of its Scientific Software Research Faculty Fellowships. These fellowships will support new software-focused professor positions at academic institutions. In these roles, the fellows will develop scientific and mathematical software that will play a crucial role in enabling discoveries through data analysis, simulations, visualizations and calculations.
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation
Simons Foundation, August 2025Under the leadership of Stanford University’s Surya Ganguli, the collaboration will study the fundamental scientific principles underlying artificial intelligence.
Announcing the Simons Collaboration on Probabilistic Paths to Quantum Field Theory
Simons Foundation, August 2025Collaboration director Scott Sheffield of the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and collaboration members from other universities will work toward a unified probabilistic foundation for Euclidean quantum field theory.