Tag: Flatiron Institute

New Datasets Will Train AI Models To Think Like Scientists

Simons Foundation, December 2024

What can exploding stars teach us about how blood flows through an artery? Or swimming bacteria about how the ocean’s layers mix? A collaboration of researchers from universities, science philanthropies and national laboratories has reached an important milestone toward training artificial intelligence models to find and exploit transferable knowledge between seemingly disparate fields to drive scientific discovery.

Astrophysicists Use AI to Precisely Calculate Universe’s ‘Settings’

Simons Foundation, August 2024

The standard model of the universe relies on just six numbers. Using a new approach powered by artificial intelligence, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues extracted information hidden in the distribution of galaxies to estimate the values of five of these so-called cosmological parameters with incredible precision.

Flatiron Institute’s LaToya Anderson Named a Top Student Presenter at APS March Meeting

Simons Foundation, March 2024

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.

Largest-Ever Map of Universe’s Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

Simons Foundation, March 2024

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.

Neuroscientist SueYeon Chung Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Simons Foundation, February 2024

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.”

Scientists Begin Building AI for Scientific Discovery Using Tech Behind ChatGPT

Simons Foundation, October 2023

An international team of scientists announced today an ambitious new project that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery. While ChatGPT deals in words and sentences, the team’s AI will learn from numerical data and physics simulations from across scientific fields to aid scientists in modeling everything from supergiant stars to Earth’s climate.

Researchers Create First-Ever Map of a Single Animal’s Early Visual System

Simons Foundation, September 2023

Neuroscientists at the Flatiron Institute in New York City and their colleagues have made a big breakthrough using one of the world’s smallest brains.

We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange

Simons Foundation, August 2023

A new study led by the Flatiron Institute’s Aavishkar Patel has identified a mechanism that explains the unusual behavior of strange metals, considered one of the greatest open challenges in condensed matter physics.

IDEA Scholar Jorge Moreno Brings Undergrads to the Flatiron Institute for an Inspiring Visit

Simons Foundation, July 2023

When pursuing a science degree, hands-on experience is critical. But for undergraduates, especially those in their first or second year, such opportunities are typically limited to lab classes. Getting that early real-world experience is a boon when applying to graduate school, especially for students from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences.

Neuroscientist SueYeon Chung Awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship

Simons Foundation, July 2023

The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund has announced that neuroscientist SueYeon Chung is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. The award recognizes and supports outstanding early-career neuroscientists who have made valuable research contributions and show great promise.