Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation is a private foundation established in 1994 by Marilyn and James Harris Simons with offices in New York City.[2] The foundation — one of the largest charitable organizations in the US, with assets of over $4 billion in 2019[3] — makes grants in "four program areas: mathematics and physical sciences; life sciences; autism research; and education & outreach."[4][5] In 2016, the foundation launched the Flatiron Institute, a multidisciplinary academic research entity focused on computation.[6]
| Formation | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Type | Private foundation |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, United States |
President | Marilyn H. Simons |
Key people |
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Revenue (2016) | $267,780,782[1] |
| Expenses (2016) | $307,447,716[1] |
| Website | www |
The foundation also funds two editorially independent online publications: Quanta Magazine and Spectrum. Quanta reports on developments in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science and the basic life sciences.[7] Spectrum provides news and analysis of advancements in autism research.[8]
Simons Investigators awardees
The Simons Foundation funds the Simons Investigators program[9] which "provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions".[10]
Simons Investigators are nominated by eligible universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Awards are made in the categories of mathematics, physics, astrophysics, theoretical computer science, mathematical modeling of living systems (MMLS), and math+X.[11]
Awardees receive research support of $100,000 per year for five years.[9]
| Year | Category | Awardee | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mathematics | Simon Brendle | Columbia University |
| Ludmil Katzarkov | University of Miami | ||
| Igor Rodnianski | Princeton University | ||
| Allan Sly | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Physics | Nigel Cooper | Cambridge University | |
| Steven Gubser | Princeton University | ||
| Shamit Kachru | Stanford University | ||
| Anders Sandvik | Boston University | ||
| Eva Silverstein | Stanford University | ||
| Astrophysics | Eve Ostriker | Princeton University | |
| Wayne Hu | University of Chicago | ||
| Theoretical computer science | Scott Aaronson | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Boaz Barak | Harvard University | ||
| James R. Lee | University of Washington | ||
| Mathematical modeling of living systems | Arvind Murugan | The University of Chicago | |
| David Schwab | Northwestern University | ||
| Aryeh Warmflash | Rice University | ||
| Daniel Weissman | Emory University | ||
| Math+X | Andrea Bertozzi | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Amit Singer | Princeton University | ||
| 2016 | Mathematics | Vladimir Markovic | California Institute of Technology |
| James McKernan | University of California, San Diego | ||
| Bjorn Poonen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Physics | Mina Aganagic | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Andrea Alù | The University of Texas at Austin | ||
| Andrei Beloborodov | Columbia University | ||
| B. Andrei Bernevig | Princeton University | ||
| Garnet Chan | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Daniel Eisenstein | Harvard University | ||
| Anton Kapustin | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Theoretical computer science | Madhu Sudan | Harvard University | |
| David Zuckerman | University of Texas at Austin | ||
| Mathematical modeling of living systems | Surya Ganguli | Stanford University | |
| Kirill Korolev | Boston University | ||
| Madhav Mani | Northwestern University | ||
| M. Lisa Manning | Syracuse University | ||
| Math+X | Ingrid Daubechies | Duke University | |
| 2015 | Mathematics | Ian Agol | University of California, Berkeley |
| Ben Green | University of Oxford | ||
| Raphaël Rouquier | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Christopher Skinner | Princeton University | ||
| Theoretical computer science | Dan Boneh | Stanford University | |
| Subhash Khot | New York University | ||
| Christopher Umans | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Physics | Jonathan Feng | University of California, Irvine | |
| Alexei Kitaev | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Andrea Liu | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Mark Van Raamsdonk | University of British Columbia | ||
| Ashvin Vishwanath | Harvard University | ||
| Anastasia Volovich | Brown University | ||
| Matthieu Wyart | New York University | ||
| Mathematical modeling of living systems | Michael Desai | Harvard University | |
| Andrew Mugler | Purdue University | ||
| James O’Dwyer | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||
| Math+X | Michael Weinstein | Columbia University | |
| 2014 | Mathematics | Alex Eskin | University of Chicago |
| Larry Guth | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Richard Kenyon | Brown University | ||
| Andrei Okounkov | Columbia University | ||
| Theoretical computer science | Moses Charikar | Princeton University | |
| Shang-Hua Teng | University of Southern California | ||
| Physics | Patrick Hayden | Stanford University | |
| Marc Kamionkowski | The Johns Hopkins University | ||
| Leo Radzihovsky | University of Colorado at Boulder | ||
| Rachel Somerville | Rutgers University | ||
| Anatoly Spitkovsky | Princeton University | ||
| Iain Stewart | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Mathematical modeling of living systems | Paul François | McGill University | |
| Oskar Hallatschek | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Pankaj Mehta | Boston University | ||
| Olga Zhaxybayeva | Dartmouth College | ||
| 2013 | Mathematics | Ngô Bảo Châu | The University of Chicago |
| Maryam Mirzakhani | Stanford University | ||
| Kannan Soundararajan | Stanford University | ||
| Daniel Tătaru | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Computer science | Rajeev Alur | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Piotr Indyk | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Salil Vadhan | Harvard University | ||
| Physics | Victor Galitski | The University of Maryland | |
| Randall Kamien | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Joel Moore | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Đàm Thanh Sơn | The University of Chicago | ||
| Senthil Todadri | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Xi Yin | Harvard University | ||
| 2012 | Mathematics | Manjul Bhargava | Princeton University |
| Alice Guionnet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Christopher Hacon | The University of Utah | ||
| Paul Seidel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Amit Singer | Princeton University | ||
| Terence Tao | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Horng-Tzer Yau | Harvard University | ||
| Computer science | Sanjeev Arora | Princeton University | |
| Shafrira Goldwasser | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Russell Impagliazzo | University of California, San Diego | ||
| Jon Kleinberg | Cornell University | ||
| Daniel Spielman | Yale University | ||
| Physics | Igor Aleiner | Columbia University | |
| Michael Brenner | Harvard University | ||
| Sharon Glotzer | University of Michigan | ||
| Matthew Hastings | Duke University | ||
| Chris Hirata | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Charles Kane | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Hirosi Ooguri | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Frans Pretorius | Princeton University | ||
| Eliot Quataert | University of California, Berkeley |
White House BRAIN Initiative Alliance membership
As of December 2018, the Simons Foundation is listed as a White House BRAIN Initiative Alliance Member.[12]
The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) is working to understand the internal processes underlying cognition.[13]
References
- "Simons Foundation, Inc" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- "Simons Foundation: Funder of Basic Science Research, Early Mover in Autism Science" (PDF). Autism Spectrum News.
- "Simons Foundation Annual Reports". simonsfoundation.org.
- "About Simons Foundation". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- "Inside the Simons Foundation: Big Philanthropy on the Frontiers of Science". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- Chang, Kenneth (2016-11-22). "James Simons's Foundation Starts New Institute for Computing, Big Data". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- "About Quanta - Quanta Magazine".
- "About Spectrum - Spectrum - Autism Research News".
- Simons Investigators, The Simons Foundation
- Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
- "Simons Investigators". Retrieved 1 April 2019.
The Math+X Investigators program is designed to encourage novel collaborations between mathematics and other fields in science or engineering.
- "Participants". The BRAIN Initiative.
- "Simons Foundation". The BRAIN Initiative.