Annual Report

Simons Investigators

Ian Agol

Igor Aleiner

Rajeev Alur

Sanjeev Arora

François Baccelli

Ngô Báo Châu

Manjul Bhargava

Dan Boneh

Michael Brenner

Emmanuel Candès

Moses Charikar

Maarten V. de Hoop

Alex Eskin

Jonathan Feng

Paul François

Victor Galitski

Sharon Glotzer

Ben Green

Alice Guionnet

Larry Guth

Christopher Hacon

Oskar Hallatschek

Patrick Hayden

Christopher Hirata

Russell Impagliazzo

Piotr Indyk

Randall Kamien

Marc Kamionkowski

Charles Kane

Richard Kenyon

Alexei Kitaev

Jon Kleinberg

Andrea Liu

Pankaj Mehta

Maryam Mirzakhani

Joel Moore

Andrew Mugler

James O'Dwyer

Andrei Okounkov

Hirosi Ooguri

Frans Pretorius

Eliot Quataert

Leo Radzihovsky

Raphaël Rouquier

Paul Seidel

Amit Singer

Christopher Skinner

Rachel Somerville

Dam Thanh Son

Yun S. Song

Kannan Soundararajan

Daniel Spielman

Anatoly Spitkovsky

Iain Stewart

Terence Tao

Daniel Tataru

Shang-Hua Teng

Senthil Todadri

Chris Umans

Salil Vadhan

Mark Van Raamsdonk

Ashvin Vishwanath

Anastasia Volovich

Michael Weinstein

Horng-Tzer Yau

Olga Zhaxybayeva

Awardees

Tony Ezome

Terence Hwa

Christopher Klausmeier
Stanislas Leibler

Edward Lungu

M. Cristina Marchetti

Surjeet Rajendran

Diaraf Seck

Boris Shraiman

Christopher Tully

Massimo Vergassola

Kalin Vetsigian

Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry

Sanjeev Arora

Tim Austin

Mark Braverman

Moses Charikar

Jeff Cheeger

Subhash Khot

Bruce Kleiner

Elchanan Mossel

Assaf Naor

Ran Raz

Oded Regev

Michael Saks

Amit Singer

David Steurer

Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry

Mohammed Abouzaid

Denis Auroux

Ron Donagi

Kenji Fukaya

Bong Lian

Ludmil Katzarkov

Maxim Kontsevich

Tony Pantev

Shing-Tung Yau

Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem

Garnet Chan

Antoine Georges

Emanuel Gull

Gabriel Kotliar

Evgeny Kozik

Olivier Parcollet

Nikolai Prokof'ev

Mark van Schilfgaarde

Guifre Vidal

Steven R. White

Shiwei Zhang

It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information

Scott Aaronson

Dorit Aharonov

Vijay Balasubramanian

Horacio Casini

Patrick Hayden

Matthew Headrick

Juan Maldacena

Alexander Maloney

Donald Marolf

Robert Myers

Jonathan Oppenheim

Joseph Polchinski

John Preskill

Leonard Susskind

Tadashi Takayanagi

Mark Van Raamsdonk

Mathematics

Denis Auroux

Jason Behrstock

Roman Bezrukavnikov

Anthony Bloch

Francis Bonahon

Liliana Borcea

Nigel Boston

Samuel R. Buss

Daniela Calvetti

Guang Cheng

Ted Chinburg

Tim Cochran

Octav Cornea

Henri Darmon

Laura DeMarco

Tyrone Duncan

John Etnyre

Giovanni Forni

Dan Freed

Alan Frieze

Alexander Furman

Dennis Gaitsgory

William Goldman

Allan Greenleaf

Daniel Groves

Samuel Grushevsky

Marco Gualtieri

Yan Guo

Shelly Harvey

Eleny Ionel

Lizhen Ji

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Kresimir Josic

Joel Kamnitzer

Martin Kassabov

Ludmil Katzarkov

Rowan Killip

Sergiu Klainerman

Dmitry Kleinbock

Bruce Kleiner

Elena Kosygina

Sándor Kovács

Nicolai Krylov

Thomas Lam

Aaron Lauda

Tao Li

Hans Lindblad

Guozhen Lu

Mitchell Luskin

George Lusztig

Robert McCann

Curtis McMullen

Ivan Mirkovi

Lenhard Ng

Martin Olsson

Bjorn Poonen

Florian Pop

Mihnea Popa

Cristian Popescu

Kartik Prasanna

Firas Rassoul-Agha

Nicolai Reshetikhin

Timo Seppalainen

Romyar Sharifi

Scott Sheffield

Robert Sims

Pham Huu Tiep

Alexander Varchenko

Kari Vilonen

Daqing Wan

Mu-Tao Wang

Lauren Williams

W. Hugh Woodin

Christopher Woodward

Hong-kun Zhang

Theoretical Physics

Zvi Bern

Eric G. Blackman

Robert Brandenberger

Keshav Dasgupta

Benjamin Davidovitch

Eugene Demler

Andrei Derevianko

Charles Doering

Veit Elser

Glennys Farrar

Steven Furlanetto

Charles Gammie

Paul Ginsparg

Michael Gutperle

Michael Hermele

Elizabeth Jenkins

Patrick Lee

Aneesh Manohar

Adilson Motter

Stephen Naculich

Sonia Paban

Christopher Reynolds

Anders Sandvik

Frank Timmes

Nandini Trivedi

David Vanderbilt

Pavel Wiegmann

Leonard Abbeduto

Ted Abel

Ralph Adolphs

David Amaral

Dora Angelaki

Manuel Ascano

Naama Barnea-Goraly

Gregory Barnes

M. Albert Basson

Helen Bateup

Mark Bear

Carrie Bearden

Esther Becker

Marlene Behrmann

Kevin Bender

Raphael Bernier

Randy Blakely

Susan Y. Bookheimer

Thomas Bourgeron

Carolyn Bridgemohan

Randy L. Buckner

Joseph Buxbaum

Rosa Canet-Aviles

Jessica Cardin

William Catterall

Aravinda Chakravarti

Steven Chance

Steve Chang

Anjen Chenn

Benjamin Cheyette

Roula Choueiri

Wendy Chung

George Church

Edwin H. Cook, Jr.

Hilary Coon

Greg Cooper

Giovanni Coppola

Joseph Corbo

Rui Costa

Eric Courchesne

Christopher Cowan

Gerald Crabtree

Michael Crair

Jacqueline Crawley

Lisa Croen

Joseph Cubells

Mark Daly

Robert Darnell

Graeme Davis

Karl Deisseroth

Orrin Devinsky

Bernie Devlin

Adriana Di Martino

Gabriel Dichter

Scott Dindot

Karen Dobkins

Catherine Dulac

Robert Edwards

Evan Eichler

Ype Elgersma

Mayada Elsabbagh

Craig Erickson

Michela Fagiolini

William Fairbrother

Jin Fan

W. Andrew Faucett

Evelina Fedorenko

Daniel Feldman

Guoping Feng

André Fenton

Thomas Fernandez

Gordon Fishell

Loren Frank

Jean Frazier

Maria Freire

William Gaetz

Dwight German

Daniel Geschwind

Charles Gilbert

David Ginty

Joseph Gleeson

Robin Goin-Kochel

Mitchell Goldfarb

David Goldstein

Matthew Goodwin

Anne Goriely

Alessandro Gozzi

Ann Graybiel

Adam Guastella

Abha Gupta

James F. Gusella

Kurt Haas

Ellen Hanson

Antonio Hardan

Christopher Harvey

Xin He

David Heeger

Susan Hepburn

Michael Higley

Ellen Hoffman

Mady Hornig

Z. Josh Huang

Kimberly Huber

Jun Huh

Lilia Iakoucheva

Ivan Iossifov

Daoyun Ji

Peng Jin

Rebecca Jones

Zsuzsanna Kaldy

Stephen Kanne

Nancy Kanwisher

Nicholas Katsanis

Raymond Kelleher

Tal Kenet

Jonathan Kipnis

Margaret Kjelgaard

Eric Klann

Alexander Kolevzon

Kenneth Kosik

Gabriel Kreiman

Abba Krieger

Kenneth Kwan

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia

Rebecca Landa

Gary Landreth

David Ledbetter

Jason Lerch

Matthew Lerner

Christa Lese Martin
Bo Li
Ellen Li

Paul Lipkin

W. Ian Lipkin

Dan Littman

Catherine Lord

Liqun Luo

Christian Lüscher

Robert C. Malenka

Beth Malow

Eleni Maneta

Dara Manoach

Oscar Marin

Gabor Marth

Thomas Maynard

Sarkis Mazmanian

A. Kimberley McAllister

Steven McCarroll

Mollie Meffert

Sunil Mehta

Vinod Menon

Carolyn Mervis

Daniel Messinger

Judith Miles

Alea Mills

Angela Morgan

Eric Morrow

Alysson Muotri

Scott Murray

Mor Nahum

Shrikanth Narayanan

James Noonan

Cesar Ochoa-Lubinoff
Ruth O'Hara

Brian O'Roak

Lucy Osborne

Sally Ozonoff

Damon Page

Theo Palmer

Juhi Pandey

Alex Parker
Karen Parker

Elior Peles

Kevin Pelphrey

Deirdre Phillips

Ben Philpot

Geoffrey Pitt

Joseph Piven

Michael Platt

Carlos Portera-Cailliau

Shenfeng Qiu

James Rehg

Danny Reinberg

Irving Reti

Alexandre Reymond

Timothy Roberts

Kathryn Roeder

John Rubenstein

Uwe Rudolph

Nicole Russo-Ponsaran

Mustafa Sahin

Stephan Sanders

Celine Saulnier

Stephen W. Scherer

Elad Schneidman

Laura Schrader

Robert Schultz

Ethan Scott

Marco Seandel

Jonathan Sebat

Nenad Sestan

Stephen Sheinkopf

Elliott Sherr

Song-Hai Shi

Frederick Shic

Lisa Shulman

Laura Sices

Matthew Siegel

Steven Siegelbaum

James Sikela

Jeffrey Singer

Pawan Sinha

Stelios Smirnakis

Jesse Snedeker

Vikaas Sohal

Hongjun Song

Sarah Spence

Matthew State

Judith Steen

Paul Sternberg

Beth Stevens

Wendy Stone

Garret Stuber

Thomas Südhof

David Sulzer

Mriganka Sur

James Sutcliffe

Helen Tager-Flusberg

Michael Talkowski

Guomei Tang

Di Tian

David Traver

Vanessa Troiani

Nien-Pei Tsai

Gina Turrigiano

Thomas Tuschl

Erik Ullian

Nathan Urban

Krystyn Van Vliet

Roger Vaughan

Pamela Ventola

Dennis Vitkup

Mark Wallace

Fan Wang

Xiaoqin Wang

Michael Wangler

Zachary Warren

James Waschek

Lauren Weiss

Rachel Wevrick

Tonya White

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Michael Wigler

Jeremy Willsey

Mark Wu

Fei Xu

Lei Xu

Shinya Yamamoto

Ofer Yizhar

Gregory Young

Haiyuan Yu

Konstantinos Zarbalis

Mark Zervas

Chaolin Zhang

Feng Zhang

Andrew Zimmerman

Lawrence Zipursky

Huda Zoghbi

Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Larry Abbott

Misha Ahrens

Dora Angelaki

William Bialek

David Brainard

Carlos Brody

Elizabeth Buffalo

Matteo Carandini

E.J. Chichilnisky

Anne Churchland

Marlene Cohen

John P. Cunningham

James DiCarlo
Brent Doiron

Shaul Druckmann

Uri Eden

Ila Fiete

Jeremy Freeman

Winrich Freiwald

Loren Frank

Stefano Fusi

Surya Ganguli

Lisa Giocomo

Mark Goldman

Kenneth Harris

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Roozbeh Kiani

Adam Kohn

Brian Lau

Andrew Leifer

Michael Long

Zachary Mainen

Valerio Mante

Markus Meister

J. Anthony Movshon

William Newsome

Liam Paninski
Joseph Paton

Bijan Pesaran

Jonathan Pillow

Xaq Pitkow

Alexandre Pouget

Fred Rieke

Nicole Rust

Bernardo Sabatini

Maneesh Sahani

Eero Simoncelli

Haim Sompolinsky

Spencer Smith

Michael Stryker
Karel Svoboda

David Tank

Doris Tsao

Brian A. Wandell

Byron Yu

Manuel Zimmer

Steven Zucker

Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life

Donna Blackmond

Tanja Bosak

Dieter Braun

Irene Chen

Jason Dworkin

Gregory Fournier

Gerald Joyce

Lisa Kaltenegger

Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

Sheref S. Mansy

Karin Öberg

Matthew Powner

Didier Queloz

Nita Sahai

Dimitar Sasselov

Burckhard Seelig

Roger Summons

John Sutherland

Jack Szostak

George Whitesides

Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology

E. Virginia Armbrust

Dave Caron

Penny Chisholm

Matthew J. Church

Edward F. DeLong

Sonya Dyhrman

Michael Follows

Anitra Ingalls

Seth John

David Karl
Debbie Lindell

Daniel J. Repeta

Benjamin Van Mooy

Joshua Weitz

Angelicque White

Jonathan P. Zehr

Project Investigators

David Amaral

David Anderson

György Buzsáki

Penny Chisholm

Rob DeSalle

Gordon J. Fishell

Wayne Goodman

David Haussler

Fritz Henn

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Rudolf Jaenisch

Eunsoo Kim

Robert Miller

Svante Pääbo

Nick Patterson

Fernando Pérez

John Pringle

Stephen Quake

David Reich

Gene Robinson

Lisa Stubbs

Richard Tsien

David Valentine

Brian A. Wandell

Anthony Zador

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences

Mark M. Churchland

Dion Dickman

Felice Dunn

Liang Feng

Michael M. Halassa

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Byungkook Lim

Dengke Ma

Carolyn McBride

Katherine Nagel

Brian O'Roak

Engin Özkan

Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

Jake Bailey

Tanja Bosak

Alyson Santoro

Frank Stewart

Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellows

Katherine Cora Ames

Xiaoyin Chen

Maria Dadarlat

James Heys

Matthew Kaufman

Aaron Koralek

Liang Liang

John Long

Braden Purcell

Evan Schaffer

Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Postdoctoral Fellows

Elizabeth Bell

Clara Blättler

Alexandria Johnson

Ziwei Liu

Irena Mamajanov

Sarah Rugheimer

James Saenz

Vlada Stamenkovic

Kartik Temburnikar

Falk Wachowius

Rui Wang

Li Zeng

Dmitry Zubarev

Simons Fellows of the Life Sciences Research Foundation

Aakash Basu

Thomas Boothby

Rogier Braakman

Robert Jinkerson

Ricardo Laranjeiro

James Marshel

Dipti Nayak

Lena Pernas

Constance Richter

Benjamin Ross

Caroline Runyan

Ophelia Venturelli

Josep Vilarrasa-Blasi

Joshua Weinstein

Christopher Whidden

Rayka Yokoo

Simons Fellows of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Eleanor J. Clowney

Tania J. Lupoli

Arthur Prindle

Jeremy M. Rock

Simons Fellows of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

Brittany Belin

David Booth

Joseph Castellano

Tina Han

Duncan Leitch

Joshua Modell

Senior Fellows

Boris Altshuler

Moses V. Chao

David Hirsh

Thomas Jessell

Dan Littman

Carol A. Mason

John Morgan

J. Anthony Movshon

Margaret Wright

Junior Fellows

Tobias Bartsch

Sonja Billerbeck

Y-Lan Boureau

Michal Breker

Jennifer Bussell

Jairo Diaz

Benjamin Harrop-Griffith

J. Colin Hill

Kohei Inayoshi

Ailsa Keating

Dion Khodagholy

Chervin Laporte

Boris Leistedt

Rafael Maia

Aditi Sheshadri

James Stafford

Jonathan Ullman

Omri Weinstein

Simons Center for Data Analysis Investigators

Tarmo Äijö

Alex Barnett

Richard Bonneau

Nick Carriero

Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii

Salim Chowdhury

Charles Epstein

Ian Fisk

Andrea Giovannucci

Leslie Greengard

David Hogg

Jeremy Magland

Emily Miraldi

Christian L. Müller

Andras Pataki

Cengiz Pehlevan

Eftychios Pnevmatikakis

Aaditya Rangan

P. Douglas Renfrew

Alexander Rives

Mark Roberts

Rachel Sealfon

Anirvan Sengupta

Michael Shelley

Amit Singer

Marina Spivak

Olga Troyanskaya

Benjamin VanderSluis

Aaron Watters

Aaron Wong

Noah Youngs

100Kin10

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

BioBus & BioBase, Harlem

Conversation US, Inc.

Genspace

Guerilla Science

Iridescent

Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth

Math for America

Mathematical Association of America

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

MIT Museum, Science Festival Alliance

National Academy of Sciences

National Museum of Mathematics

Nautilus

New York Academy of Sciences

New York Hall of Science

New York Harbor Foundation, Billion Oyster Project

New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

NPR, Joe's Big Idea

Partnership for Public Service

Posse Foundation, Inc.

Science Friday

Science Philanthropy Alliance

SciStarter

STEM Summit Junior Achievement

STEM Teachers NYC

Stony Brook University

Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

Two Turtle Productions, Experiments in Science Storytelling

University of California, San Francisco, Science & Health Education Partnership


University of San Diego, Center for Education Policy and Law

Wiki Education Foundation, Wikipedia Year of Science

WNET, Charlie Rose Brain Series

WNYC, Hypothesis

WNYC, Only Human 


Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning

World Science Festival

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Columbia University

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

Institute for Advanced Study

Marine Biological Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

National Academy of Sciences

National Museum of Mathematics

New York Genome Center

New York Stem Cell Foundation

New York Structural Biology Center

Rockefeller University

Science Festival Foundation

Science Philanthropy Alliance

Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.

University of California, Berkeley

WGBH Educational Foundation