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About Us<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mission and Model<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Simons Foundation\u2019s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.<\/p>\n

Co-founded in 1994 in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic \u2014 or discovery-driven \u2014 scientific research undertaken in the pursuit of understanding the phenomena of our world. Marilyn Simons served as president of the foundation until 2021, when David Spergel was appointed president of the foundation.<\/p>\n

The Simons Foundation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Simons Foundation\u2019s activities, please visit our\u00a0online Annual Report<\/a>\u00a0or download\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The mission of the\u00a0Flatiron Institute<\/a>\u00a0is to advance scientific research through computational methods, including data analysis, theory, modeling and simulation.<\/p>\n

New experimental techniques in many fields of study are creating enormous amounts of raw, complex and sometimes\u00a0noisy data.\u00a0Understanding and learning from these data and modelling the complex processes they reflect is a pressing concern in the scientific community. At the same time, advances in concepts, algorithms and\u00a0computation are\u00a0enabling\u00a0new kinds of\u00a0simulations that can\u00a0capture rich nonlinear, and often time-dependent, processes. These simulations demand increased sophistication in scientific technique, algorithmic development\u00a0and computation.<\/p>\n

The Simons Foundation launched the Flatiron Institute to address these challenges,\u00a0developing new conceptual, algorithmic and computational methods and bringing them to bear on important scientific issues. The institute provides a highly interactive research environment for\u00a0physicists, biologists, astronomers, neuroscientists, chemists, computational scientists, data scientists and programmers to work together to create, deploy, apply and support state-of-the-art computational methods.<\/p>\n

The institute currently comprises the\u00a0Center for Computational Biology<\/a>, launched in 2013 as the Simons Center for Data Analysis; the\u00a0Center for Computational Astrophysics<\/a>, launched in 2016; the\u00a0Center for Computational Quantum Physics<\/a>, launched in 2017; the\u00a0Center for Computational Mathematics<\/a>, launched in 2018; and the\u00a0Center for Computational Neuroscience<\/a>, launched in 2020. The work of these centers is supported by the\u00a0Scientific Computing Core<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To learn more, please visit the\u00a0Flatiron Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation makes grants in four areas: Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, autism research (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) and Outreach, Education and Engagement. Our Simons Collaborations are a new funding model for the foundation, spanning Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation seeks to create strong collaborations and foster the cross-pollination of ideas between investigators, as these interactions often lead to unexpected breakthroughs. In an effort to promote such interaction between scientists, in 2012 the foundation launched a new collaborative funding model, the Simons Collaborations, which bring funded investigators \u2014 sometimes from different disciplines \u2014 together to work on a timely and important problem. To date,\u00a023 Simons Collaborations<\/a>\u00a0have been launched in and across our Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Life Sciences divisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation\u00a0Mathematics and Physical Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(MPS) division\u00a0supports research in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science by providing funding for individuals, institutions and science infrastructure.<\/p>\n

To learn more about MPS programs, please visit\u00a0Mathematics and Physical Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation\u00a0Life Sciences<\/a>\u00a0division seeks to advance basic research on fundamental questions in biology, with a focus on origins of life, microbial oceanography and microbial ecology and evolution.<\/p>\n

To find out more, please visit our\u00a0Life Sciences<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)<\/a>\u2019s mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. SFARI offers\u00a0grant programs<\/a>\u00a0to support bold, imaginative and rigorous research relevant to its mission. Standing Request for Application\u00a0(RFA) programs include\u00a0Pilot<\/a>\u00a0Awards<\/a>, as well as\u00a0Bridge to Independence Awards<\/a>.\u00a0Additional funding mechanisms include the\u00a0Collaboration<\/a>s<\/a>, which support\u00a0multidisciplinary teams of investigators tackling critical issues in the autism research field, and\u00a0Targeted RFAs<\/a>, which\u00a0are offered on an ad-hoc basis. To help increase diversity and fight inequity in autism research,\u00a0SFARI also offers a\u00a0Supplement to Enhance Equity and Diversity<\/a>\u00a0(SEED) Award.<\/p>\n

To help bring new researchers in the field, lower\u00a0barriers of entry and drive\u00a0research, SFARI has created and maintains\u00a0several resources<\/a>\u00a0for autism scientists.\u00a0These resources include\u00a0autism cohorts<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0SPARK<\/a>,\u00a0Simons Searchlight<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Simons Simplex Collection<\/a>,\u00a0animal and cell models of autism, as well as a repository of\u00a0postmortem brains<\/a>\u00a0from donors with and without autism, and related neurodevelopmental conditions.\u00a0The editorially independent, online magazine\u00a0Spectrum<\/em><\/a>\u00a0provides comprehensive news and analysis of advances in autism research. For more information on SFARI, please visit\u00a0SFARI.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation\u2019s\u00a0Outreach, Education and Engagement<\/a>\u00a0programs seek to stimulate a deeper interest and understanding of science and mathematics among students, professionals and the interested public.\u00a0Science Sandbox<\/a>\u00a0supports and collaborates with programs that unlock scientific thinking in everyone. The division\u2019s education initiative, Math for America, focuses on reaching secondary school students with a corps of outstanding STEM teachers and leaders in U.S. public schools.\u00a0Quanta Magazine<\/em><\/a>\u00a0seeks to illuminate basic science and math research through public service journalism. Two lecture series,\u00a0Simons Foundation Lectures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Simons Foundation Presents<\/a>, connect practicing scientists and the interested public with some of the top minds in science in a lecture setting.<\/p>\n

To find out more, please visit our\u00a0Outreach, Education and Engagement<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Informatics Group<\/a>\u00a0manages the foundation\u2019s many and expanding scientific and administrative data assets. Informatics provides guidance to some of the foundation\u2019s data-intensive research grants and, importantly, advances the foundation\u2019s commitment to the open sharing of information.\u00a0Group members<\/a>\u00a0regularly collaborate on research projects with SFARI and the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Biology, as well as with external investigators. Internally, they assist the foundation\u2019s grants administration groups.<\/p>\n

Read more about the Informatics Group\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Simons Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization.<\/p>\n

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Address: 40.7403005 Phone: 646.654.0066 About Us Mission and Model The Simons Foundation\u2019s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. Co-founded in 1994 in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic \u2014 or discovery-driven \u2014 scientific research undertaken in the pursuit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charitable-foundations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}