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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.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

  1. 3 hr ago

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Ping Zhang

    3-D Anisotropic vs Classical Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equationsof the three-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes system (denoted by (NS)). We then present our results on the global well-posedness of the three-dimensional anisotropic Navier--Stokes system ((ANS)), which has dissipation only in the x_1 and x_2 directions. In the third part of this article, we establish regularity criteria and well-posedness results for the system (NS). We emphasize that the proofs of these results rely essentially on the anisotropic analysis developed in our study of (ANS). Finally, we present our results on lower bound estimates for the analyticity radius of solutions to both (NS) and (ANS).Uploaded 06-10-26

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Ping Zhang

  2. 4 hr ago

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Adam Mantz (September 12, 2019)

    More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/lsstc-data-science-fellowship-program/Uploaded 31-10-19

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Adam Mantz (September 12, 2019)

  3. 5 hr ago

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Anita Rampal

    Is Mathematics Education Responsive to Ecological Justice: with Embodied, Entangled, ‘Popular’ Knowledges?Uploaded 06-10-26A quarter of this century has passed by, through a devastating pandemic, and unprecedented ecological disasters, while education grapples with discourses of ‘21st century skills’. Do we better understand mathematics that can critically engage our children who live diverse lives - now and in the decades to follow? We interrogate the import of 21st century discourses for mathematics education, that reinforce hierarchies of ‘skills’ vs ‘knowledge’, to sort and segregate, and maintain a global division of work between the ‘ethereal’ and the material worlds. We bear witness to regimes of standardization and homogenization of mathematics curricula ascribing large populations of young people as “low performers”. Interdisciplinary studies of connected relationalities of knowledge and material production, inspire a recrafting of paradigms of mathematics education that invisibilize artisanal and ‘popular’ vernacular knowledges, and the livelihoods of those who have lived by the earth. Towards this end, we explore intercultural imaginaries and co-constructions of mathematics for school and work-based (not vocational) education, that are responsive to livelihoods, places and the planet, with a commitment to ecological justice.

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Anita Rampal

  4. 6 hr ago

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Adam Mantz (September 13, 2019)

    More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/lsstc-data-science-fellowship-program/Uploaded 31-10-19

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Adam Mantz (September 13, 2019)

  5. 6 hr ago

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Susanna Zimmermann

    Algebraic Groups of Birational MapsI will present some of the recent developments on algebraic groups acting via birational maps on algebraic varieties.Uploaded 05-10-26

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Susanna Zimmermann

  6. 7 hr ago

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Jesse Peterson

    The Boundaries of Von Neumann AlgebrasThe theory of von Neumann algebras was initially developed in the 1930s by Murray and von Neumann, providing a far reaching generalization of classical measure theory. Von Neumann algebras themselves were therefore initially studied as inherently analytic objects. This perspective was reinforced, and then almost immediately afterword dismantled, by Alain Connes starting in the 1970s when he showed that there is a unique separable injective II1 factor, and then also provided the first example of rigidity phenomena in von Neumann algebras through the use of Kazhdan's property (T). The juxtaposition of these two extremes led Popa's breakthrough in establishing deformation/rigidity theory, leading to numerous other breakthroughs and a deeper understanding of structural theory of von Neumann algebras. Von Neumann algebras therefore have a rich structure and it is only by studying the field from many different perspectives that we can gain a clearer picture of these mysterious objects. Each of the perspectives from ergodic theory, Voiculescu's free probability theory, abstract harmonic analysis, and other contribute to our understanding of the area. We describe a new perspective stemming from the dynamics of boundary actions. This has its origins in the work of Ozawa on applications of amenable actions, but it has only recently been realized that these boundaries are inherent to the von Neumann algebras themselves. These boundaries allow for the incorporation of geometric boundary techniques in the von Neumann algebraic setting. We survey some properties described using these boundaries as well as some rigidity results obtained using these techniques.Uploaded 06-10-26

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Jesse Peterson

  7. 8 hr ago

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Will Farr (September 11, 2019)

    More details: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/lsstc-data-science-fellowship-program/Uploaded 31-10-19

    LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program - Will Farr (September 11, 2019)

  8. 9 hr ago

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Xavier Cabré

    Stable Solutions to Reaction-Diffusion Elliptic ProblemsThe talk will concern stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic PDEs. We will begin with regularity questions, first addressing the classical Laplacian. In joint work with Figalli, Ros-Oton, and Serra, we proved that stable solutions are smooth up to the optimal dimension 9, thereby solving an open problem posed by Brezis in the mid-1990s. I will describe this result and also discuss related progress and open problems for the fractional Laplacian -arising naturally in boundary reaction problems-, the p-Laplacian, and minimal surfaces.We will then turn to existence questions, starting with the Casten-Holland and Matano theorem for interior reactions, which states that no nonconstant stable solution exists in convex domains under zero Neumann boundary conditions. I will present a recent result with Cónsul and Kurzke establishing that the analogous statement fails for boundary reactions. This requires the development of a new Ginzburg-Landau theory for real-valued functions and the analysis of the half-Laplacian on the real line, for which I will present new results and open problems.Uploaded 06-10-26

    ICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture – Xavier Cabré
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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.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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