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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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  • Wednesday · 1 hr 3 min

    Peter Bartlett — Gradient Optimization Methods... (Sept. 26, 2025)

    Peter Bartlett — Gradient Optimization Methods: Implicit Bias and Benefits of Early Stopping (Sept. 26, 2025) Uploaded 22-10-25 2025 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mathematical-and-scientific-foundations-of-deep-learning-annual-meeting-2025/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 37 min

    Cryo-EM Workshop - Ali Punjani (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 · 1 hr 2 min

    Rong Ge — Competing Mechanisms in Training Dynamics (Sept. 25, 2025)

    2025 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mathematical-and-scientific-foundations-of-deep-learning-annual-meeting-2025/ Uploaded 22-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 1 hr 4 min

    René Vidal — Learning Dynamics in the Feature-Learning Regime... (Sept. 25, 2025)

    René Vidal — Learning Dynamics in the Feature-Learning Regime: Implicit Bias, Robustness, and Low-Rank Adaptation Uploaded 22-10-25 2025 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mathematical-and-scientific-foundations-of-deep-learning-annual-meeting-2025/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 48 min

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Ivan Angiono

    Pointed Hopf Algebras Revisited, with A View from Tensor Categories Hopf algebras appear in connection with various problems in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, mainly through their categoriesof representations, which are examples of tensor categories. In recent years, there have been major advances in the classification of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over the complex numbers, especially when restricted to the pointed case. In this talk, we will summarize the main results in this direction, stating the classification theorems recently obtained and the problems still open, and describing the tools needed to solve the problem by means of the so-called Lifting Method of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider. An important fact is that the category of comodules of a lifting (under the assumption of the classification theorems) is tensor equivalent to that of the associated graded objects, which in turn allows certain problems to be reduced to the associated graded pointed Hopf algebras. We will emphasise this point of view with applications to other contexts related, such as finite pointed tensor categories, Hopf algebras that do not satisfy the Chevalley property and their finite-dimensional Nichols algebras, and finally module categories over the categories of representations of pointed Hopf algebras. Uploaded 05-10-26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 20 min

    Hannah Bayer: IBL: Learning to work together (May 6, 2025)

    The International Brain Laboratory is an experiment in building a large-scale distributed collaboration committed to open science. To achieve its goals, IBL had to address problems faced by collaborations of all sizes: shared decision making, the division of labor, authorship and credit assignment, and supporting career progression. In this talk I describe some of the lessons we have learned that we hope other scientists may find applicable to their own efforts. Uploaded 20-10-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 1 hr 8 min

    Lilia Boeri: Designing Next-Generation Superconductors through Pressure Quenching

    In this Presidential Lecture, Lilia Boeri will present cutting-edge research related to superconductivity. Eremets’ discovery of near room-temperature superconductivity in high-pressure hydrides marked a major turning point in the history of superconductivity, demonstrating that extreme pressure can stabilize phases with unprecedented properties that are unthinkable at ambient conditions. Ten years after the discovery of hydrogen sulfide superconductors, pressure quenching is emerging as a practical strategy to retain high-temperature phases at ambient pressure by preserving structures formed under extreme conditions. Uploaded 20-10-25 For more information go here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/designing-next-generation-superconductors-through-pressure-quenching/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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