The Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of its CCQ-NYC graduate fellowships: Alev Orfi, Jaylyn C. Umana and Sophia Wolczko.
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Junior Fellows in the Simons Society of Fellows. The 10 researchers are outstanding early-career scientists and mathematicians based in the New York City area. The fellows hold expertise in a diverse range of fields, including neuroscience, biophysics and number theory.
Governors Island in New York Harbor will soon be home to a world-class hub for generating innovative solutions for combating climate change.
Cross-posted on the Simons Foundation International website.
By closely measuring the distorted path taken by the universe’s oldest light, researchers with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have mapped out the distribution of dark matter in the cosmos with unparalleled precision. The results shore up Einstein’s theory of gravity, provide new insights into the nature of dark matter and expose critical information about the universe’s fundamental properties.
Adapted from University of Pennsylvania press release.
The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in the Simons Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, or SURFiN, for the 2023–2024 academic year. The program’s goal is to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in neuroscience research.
The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its second class of Pivot Fellowships. 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.
By inspecting the body’s immune response at a molecular level, a research team has developed a new way to test patients for COVID-19. Their method can potentially catch infections a matter of hours after exposure — far earlier than current COVID-19 tests can detect the virus — with near-perfect accuracy. The team describes their innovation, which is still in the early stages of development, in the February 27 issue of Cell Reports Methods.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded its prestigious research fellowship to four past and present Simons Foundation researchers. This year’s 125 fellowship recipients “represent the most promising scientific researchers working today,” according to the program’s website. “Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.”
The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) has awarded its Pioneer Prize to Leslie Greengard, director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Mathematics. The prize recognizes pioneering contributions to applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques.
Scientists and mathematicians in Ukraine are continuing to conduct their research in the face of Russian bombings, failing power grids, internet disruptions and shattered windows. Today, the Simons Foundation is announcing its support of 405 Ukrainian mathematicians, biologists, physicists and chemists who remain in Ukraine. In total, the foundation will award more than $1.2 million in funding over 12 months.