Simons Foundation International honors the memory of Ian Hilton, a member of SFI’s board of directors who was instrumental to the organization’s foundation and growth. Hilton, 84, died on December 28, 2022, in Bermuda. He is survived by his longtime partner Elaine Stevens, her son Sam, and countless friends and family members who fondly recall his wit and love of helping others.
Astronomers have spotted two ghostly Goliaths en route to a cataclysmic meeting. The newfound pair of supermassive black holes are the closest to colliding ever seen, the astronomers announced on January 9 at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle and in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that neurobiologist and geneticist Cori Bargmann has joined its board of directors.
New research sheds light on how the “hell planet” got so devilishly hot and how other worlds might become too toasty for life. That rocky world, 55 Cnc e (nicknamed “Janssen”), orbits its star so closely that a year lasts just 18 hours, its surface is a giant lava ocean, and its interior may be chock-full of diamond.
The Simons Foundation is committed to supporting scientists as they transition from mentored training to their first independent research positions. To that end, the foundation offers three independence awards through its Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) and Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB).
When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller broke ground on Stony Brook University in 1960, he set an ambitious goal for the fledgling institution: to become “the Berkeley of the East.”
A new supercomputer operated by the Flatiron Institute in New York City tops the latest Green500 List of the most power-efficient supercomputers in the world.
The brain holds some of science’s greatest mysteries. Today, the Simons Foundation is sending out a call for proposed neuroscience collaborations that will conduct bold transformational research into how our brains work.
During a ceremony on November 9, the Simons Foundation inaugurated its new conference center, naming it after its vice president of administration, Marion Greenup. The newly christened Marion T. Greenup Conference Center at the Simons Foundation’s headquarters in New York City will host collaborative meetings between mathematicians, scientists and foundation staff.
The Simons Foundation welcomes applications for its next class of Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy (IDEA) scholars. The program invites distinguished scientists interested in increasing diversity and improving equity and inclusion in the sciences for extended visits at the foundation’s intramural computational research division, the Flatiron Institute.