The Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain is pleased to announce two new collaborative projects funded through its research awards program. These projects focus on potentially conserved mechanisms of aging-related cognitive resilience and reserve in the absence of diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems.
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the benefits of two time dimensions despite there still being only one singular flow of time, the physicists report July 20 in Nature.
Three talented early-career scientists in systems and computational neuroscience have been selected as the first Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain Transition to Independence fellows. The fellowship aims to support neuroscientists from historically underrepresented backgrounds, recognizing that diversity improves scientific innovation and collaboration in the field of cognitive aging.
The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) has announced its first class of Transition to Independence fellows. The program facilitates the transition to research independence of outstanding systems and computational neuroscientists from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
The Simons Foundation congratulates the nine outstanding mathematicians honored this year by awards bestowed by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). Five of this year’s awardees are past or present Simons Foundation grantees, including two Fields Medal winners.
The American Philosophical Society has elected astrophysicist and Simons Foundation president David Spergel as one of the newest members of its ranks.
From its orbit hundreds of thousands of kilometers above Earth, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has observed and mapped our galaxy’s stars with unprecedented detail since its launch in 2013. Today, ESA will release the latest batch of the mission’s data: data release 3 (DR3). For this release, the Flatiron Institute has joined the ESA as a partner data center and will host the full DR3 dataset for the public to access.
The staff of Quanta Magazine, notably senior editor Natalie Wolchover, have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory writing “for coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research.”
Unless you’re a math whiz, “cohomology” is a word you’ve probably never heard. An oversimplified (though still hard to understand) explanation is that cohomology is a tool to extract the algebraic structure from complicated geometric spaces.