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The Simons Foundation’s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.

Co-founded in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic — or discovery-driven — scientific research undertaken in the pursuit of understanding the phenomena of our world.

The Simons Foundation’s support of science takes two forms: We support research by making grants to individual investigators and their projects through academic institutions, and, with the launch of the Flatiron Institute in 2016, we now conduct scientific research in-house, supporting teams of top computational scientists.

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  • Yesterday · 9 min

    Mathematical Impressions: Bicycle Tracks

    A nice mathematical puzzle, with a solution anyone can understand, is to determine the direction a bicycle went when you come upon its tracks. The answer involves thinking about tangent lines, geometric constraints and the bicycle's steering mechanism. Uploaded 22-05-14 http://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-bicycle-tracks/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 1 hr 5 min

    Sheperd Doeleman: Taking Pictures and Making Movies of Supermassive Black Holes (October 14, 2026)

    In this Presidential Lecture, Shep Doeleman will present the first results and the future directions of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT is a global array of radio dishes that successfully imaged the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy and the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, both of which exhibit the predicted strong gravitational lensing. Subsequent observations have revealed ordered magnetic fields on horizon scales with implications for how black holes launch relativistic jets of material. What’s next? The next-generation EHT (ngEHT) is a project to expand the EHT in several ways, enabling full-color, high-definition movies of black holes to pursue the next big questions. Uploaded 26-10-26 For more information please visit: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/events/taking-pictures-and-making-movies-of-supermassive-black-holes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 1 hr 3 min

    Ziquan Zhuang— Boundedness in General Type MMP (Oct. 3, 2025)

    https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-moduli-of-varieties-annual-meeting-2025/ 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties Simons Foundation October 2-3, 2025 Uploaded 27-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 9 min

    Mathematical Impressions: Attesting to Atoms

    Can you combine simple observations and mathematical thinking to show that atoms exist? Uploaded 22-05-14 http://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/attesting-to-atoms/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 59 min

    Chenyang Xu— Properness of K-moduli (Oct. 3, 2025)

    https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-moduli-of-varieties-annual-meeting-2025/ 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties Simons Foundation October 2-3, 2025 Uploaded 27-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 58 min

    Ivan Cheltsov— Finite Simple Subgroups of Real Cremona Groups (Oct. 3, 2025)

    https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-moduli-of-varieties-annual-meeting-2025/ 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties Simons Foundation October 2-3, 2025 Uploaded 27-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 39 min

    Cryo-EM Workshop - Roy Lederman (August 9, 2019)

    More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/nyc-computational-cryo-em-summer-workshop/ Uploaded 26-08-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 59 min

    Kristin DeVleming— The Hassett-Keel Program in Genus 4 (Oct. 2, 2025)

    https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-moduli-of-varieties-annual-meeting-2025/ 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties Simons Foundation October 2-3, 2025 Uploaded 27-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 55 min

    János Kollár— Abelian Fibrations (Oct. 2, 2025)

    https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-moduli-of-varieties-annual-meeting-2025/ 2025 Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration on Moduli of Varieties Simons Foundation October 2-3, 2025 Uploaded 27-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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