Simons Foundation Lectures
By Simons Foundation
Categories: Science, Mathematics, Education
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.Links:Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.orgFlatiron Institute: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/Simons Foundation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonsFoundationFlatiron Institute Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlatironInstitute/Simons Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonsfdnFlatiron Institute Twitter: https://twitter.com/flatironinst
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- CLASS + SONG Workshop - Usage 1 (July 15, 2019)
More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/class-song-workshop/Uploaded 30-08-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Jemma Lorenat
Between Figures and SymbolsUploaded 07-10-26
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Adolfo Grushin (September 19, 2019)
Adolfo Grushin: Quantization in chiral higher-order topological insulatorsMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Uri Bader
Higher Property T, Banach Representations and ApplicationsProperty T is a group property that could be phrased by means of cohomological vanishing in degree 1 and unitary coefficients. Higher property T is the higher degree analogue. It is related to various analytic, topological and geometrical…
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Julian Sahasrabudhe
Probabilistic Combinatorics at Exponentially Small ScalesIn many applications of the probabilistic method, one looks to study phenomena that occur "with high probability". More recently however, in an attempt to understand some of the most fundamental problems in combinatorics, researchers have…
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Adrian Po (September 21, 2019)
Adrian Po: Symmetry indicators beyond time-reversal insulatorsMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Alexander Kupers
Manifolds and Disc-PresheavesIn this talk we explain an approach to the study of smooth manifolds which compares them to presheaves on a category of discs, also known as embedding calculus. We highlight recent work that shows this approach has many desirable properties, as well as recent…
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Mallika Randeria (September 19, 2019)
Mallika Randeria: Imaging nematic quantum Hall states and their interacting boundary modesMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Philippe Rigollet
The Mean-Field Dynamics of TransformersWe develop a mathematical framework that interprets Transformer attention as an interacting particle system and studies its continuum (mean-field) limits. By idealizing attention on the sphere, we connect Transformer dynamics to Wasserstein gradient flows…
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Barry Bradlyn (September 19, 2019)
Barry Bradlyn: Chiral currents in a correlated insulator: Weyl-charge density wavesMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Frank Vallentin
Conic Optimization for Extremal GeometryThe aim of this lecture is to highlight recent progress in using conic optimization methods to study geometric packing problems. We will look at four geometric packing problems of different kinds: two on the unit sphere-the kissing number problem and…
- CLASS + SONG Workshop - Theory 2 (July 15, 2019)
More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/class-song-workshop/Uploaded 30-08-19
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Binghai Yan (September 19, 2019)
Binghai Yan: New insights for magnetic topological materialsMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Katya Scheinberg
On Complexity of Deterministic Model Based Derivative Free Optimization MethodsIn many applications of mathematical optimization, one may wish to optimize an objective function without access to its derivatives. These situations call for derivative-free optimization (DFO) methods. Among the most…
- Young Research Leaders in Topological Materials and Beyond - Berthold Jaeck (September 19, 2019)
Berthold Jaeck: Observation of a Majorana zero mode in a topologically protected edge channelMore details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/young-research-leaders-in-topological-materials-and-beyond/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Franc Forstneric
From Stein Manifolds to Oka Manifolds: The H-Principle in Complex AnalysisIn this talk, I will describe the main developments in the theory of the h-principle in complex analysis and geometry, better known as the Oka principle. I will present the key notions of Oka manifolds and Oka maps, which…
- Chao Tang - Bacteria, Stem Cells, and Fruit Flies: A Physicist in Biology (October 8, 2019)
More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccb-colloquium-chao-tang/Uploaded 14-10-19
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Jorge Vitório Pereira
Holomorphic Foliations with Numerically Trivial Canonical BundleThe lecture will survey what is currently known about the structure of holomorphic foliations with canonical singularlities and numerically trivial canonical bundle on projective manifolds.Uploaded 06-10-26
- Isabella Tree - Rewilding an English Farm (October 11, 2019)
Progress has transformed natural wildernesses into artificial landscapes, swapping forests and meadows for farms and megamalls. Nearly 20 years ago, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell set out to bring the wild back to their 3,500-acre farm in southeastern England. Over the years, a…
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Urmila Mahadev
Classical Control of a Quantum SystemIn this talk, we'll discuss the connection between the problem of learning with errors (LWE) and quantum computation. LWE is a widely studied cryptographic assumption which is believed to be secure even for quantum computers, unlike assumptions that are…
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Fabio Martinelli
Universality for Two Dimensional Kinetically Constrained Spin ModelsKinetically constrained models (KCMs) are interacting particle systems introduced in the '80s by condensed matter physicists. These models provide accessible stochastic systems with glassy-type dynamics. The key mechanism behind…
- David Page - Sex Differences in Health and Disease: Reading Genomes Differently? (Oct 16, 2019)
The differences between the sexes extend down to our cells. Biomedical research and medical teaching and practice, however, often overlook the ways male and female cells, tissues and organs differ.Uploaded 18-10-19In this lecture, David Page will discuss recent advances in his lab that provide a…
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Daniel Cristofaro Gardiner
Symplectic Weyl LawsWe survey a number of formulas that have recently been established in low-dimensional symplectic geometry that are analogous to Weyl's Law for the Laplace spectrum. We discuss applications to problems in dynamics and problems about the algebraic structure of certain groups of…
- Zoltan Haiman - Formation and Growth of Massive Black Holes (October 11, 2019)
I will review how massive black holes may have formed in the earlyuniverse from stellar-mass black hole remnants, via super-Eddingtonaccretion, or run-away mergers of stellar-mass objects. I will thendiscuss the role of circumbinary gas in mergers of black holes: forfacilitating (or not) the early…
- ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Dor Minzer
The Lens of Abelian EmbeddingsWe discuss a recent line of research investigating inverse theorems with respect to general k-wise correlations, and explain how such correlations arise in different contexts in mathematics. We outline some of the results that were established and their applications…
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