{"id":805092,"date":"2026-08-06T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:08:10","slug":"simons-foundation-funds-12-targeted-math-and-physics-research-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805092\/","title":{"rendered":"Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the funding of 12 Targeted Simons Research Groups.<\/p>\n<p>These three-year, collaborative projects will explore fundamental questions in math and physics such as the nature of dark matter, the properties of exoplanet clouds and the role of geometry and physics in shaping the morphology of life.<\/p>\n<p>The groups will be funded by grants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfi.org.bm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simons Foundation International<\/a> administered by the Simons Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The groups are:<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Axions<br \/>Director: Benjamin Safdi, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Cosmic Magnetism<br \/>Director: Glennys Farrar, New York University\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Dark Matter Dynamics<br \/>Director: Manoj Kaplinghat, University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Decoding the Quantum Rosetta Stone<br \/>Director: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Hamiltonian Dynamics and Beyond<br \/>Director: Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner, University of Maryland<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Hyperbolic Quantum Matter<br \/>Director: Evgeniy Narimanov, Purdue University<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres<br \/>Director: Caroline Morley, University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Organic-Rich Exoplanets<br \/>Director: Edwin Bergin, University of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Strange Metals<br \/>Director: Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on the Non-Equilibrium Frontier<br \/>Director: Aditi Mitra, New York University<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on the Shape of Life<br \/>Director: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Targeted Simons Research Group on Universality of Integrable Systems<br \/>Director: Ivan Corwin, Columbia University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of its mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[199,79],"class_list":["post-805092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}