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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · 20d

Apply now for SLMath Membership in Fall 2026 research programs - Motivic Homotopy Theory and Representation Theory Under the Influence of Quantum Field Theory. Deadlines for Research Professors: Oct. 1, Research Members and Postdoctoral Fellows: Nov. 1, 2025. Learn more: www.slmath.org/membership.

SLMath: Apply for Fall 2026 Membership - Research Professors, Research Members, Postdoctoral Fellows

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · 23d

SLMath and the Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics (ICARM) will host an interactive workshop on Lean for PDEs by Rémy Degenne (University of Lille) and Michael Rothgang (Universität Bonn) on October 6-7-9 in Berkeley, CA and online. Details: www.slmath.org/workshops/1180

Lean for PDEs workshop flyer - all details are online at https://www.slmath.org/workshops/1180.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · 29d

2026 Mathical Book Prize Call for Submissions: Publishers are eligible to submit fiction and non-fiction titles for ages 2-18 for consideration through Sept. 26, 2025. There is no fee and submissions are unlimited - for full details, visit www.mathicalbooks.org/about-us/how.... #mathicalbooks

How to Enter - Mathical Book Prize

Publishers are eligible to submit an unlimited number titles via the online form, typically in September each year. Winners are announced in February of the award year.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Sep 2

SLMath is accepting applications for Fall 2026 membership at www.mathjobs.org/jobs/SLMath for our semester programs in Berkeley, CA. Themes: "Representation Theory Under the Influence of Quantum Field Theory" & "Motivic Homotopy Theory: Connections and Applications". Learn more: www.slmath.org/apply

Call for Membership: Fall 2026 Research Programs at Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly MSRI, in Berkeley, California. Learn more: https://www.slmath.org/apply.

Research Professors: Deadline Oct. 1, 2025
Research Members and Postdoctoral Fellows: Deadline November 1, 2025.

Apply via MathJobs.org starting Sept. 1, 2025.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Aug 29

SLMath (MSRI) announces three new research initiatives in Berkeley, California: Call for Proposals for AxIOM month-long programs to begin in Spring 2027, and applications for Summer 2026 PROOF and LATTICE independent research groups. Learn more at www.slmath.org/news-and-eve....

Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath)
- AxIOM Month-Long Programs: Call for Proposals for Spring 2027 and beyond
- PROOF and LATTICE summer research for teams: Call for Applications for Summer 2026

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Aug 29

SLMath (MSRI) announces three new research initiatives in Berkeley, California: Call for Proposals for AxIOM month-long programs to begin in Spring 2027, and applications for Summer 2026 PROOF and LATTICE independent research groups. Learn more at www.slmath.org/news-and-eve....

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 8

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at

giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Aug 7

Courtesy of our deputy director, the reverse is now on display for our Fall 2025 visitors arriving later this month to enjoy. Thank you for the reminder, it has not been displayed in reverse for over a decade!

Reverse side of Gwen Fisher's mathematical quilt at SLMath (MSRI) featuring a Celtic knot pattern

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Aug 7

One of @gwenbeads.bsky.social's beautiful mathematical quilts hangs in the Austine McDonnell Hearst Library at SLMath (MSRI), where it has been enjoyed by many of our visitors over the years. She has shared more about it here: www.beadinfinitum.com/GwenGallery/....

Quilt by Gwen Fisher on display at SLMath (MSRI)'s library. More info: https://www.beadinfinitum.com/GwenGallery/Quilt.html.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Jun 28

Happy #TauDay, 6.28! Join our puzzle contest featuring double the pi(e) with two Tau-themed puzzles by Prof. Peter Winkler, and support mathematics research and public outreach:

SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Jun 27

Double the π, double the fun: this weekend, we celebrate #TauDay 6.28, which means it's time for our annual puzzle contest! We welcome your support and invite all to join the contest by July 13, with this year's guest puzzlemaster, Peter Winkler: www.slmath.org/news-and-eve....

Double the pi(e) on 6.28: Support math research and join SLMath's annual Tau Day puzzle contest, with 2025 puzzlemaster Dr. Peter Winkler. Submit your proof by July 13, 2025. With thanks to 2025 prize sponsor Sejongmall, makers of Hagoromo Chalk.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Jun 27

Double the π, double the fun: this weekend, we celebrate #TauDay 6.28, which means it's time for our annual puzzle contest! We welcome your support and invite all to join the contest by July 13, with this year's guest puzzlemaster, Peter Winkler: www.slmath.org/news-and-eve....

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Jun 2

Journalist Siobhan Roberts, a regular NY Times contributor and biographer, speaks with mathematician Annachiara Piubello about math and music, puzzles, the universe, and more in the latest SLMath in Conversation: www.slmath.org/news-and-eve...

A Conversation with the Musical Mathematican Annachiara Piubello.

Quote: “I do general relativity. It’s pure math, but the questions come from physics—the physics is what got me curious—and in that sense it’s applied math because it’s not just math for its own sake. The mathematical language general relativity uses is differential geometry. In explaining what that is, I tell my mom I do calculus on something that is not flat—it’s calculus with curvature.”

Get a taste for Dr. Piubello’s research into fundamental questions about how our universe is changing over time – and her love of puzzles and music – in this conversation with Siobhan Roberts.

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · May 14

Register now for SLMath Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 connections and introductory workshops: https://mailchi.mp/slmath/2025-26-workshops-connections-introductory. All events are free and take place in Berkeley, CA and on Zoom. The funding application deadline for Fall 2025 workshops is June 20, 2025.

Register for SLMath Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 workshops in Kinetic Theory / Stochastic PDEs and Topological and Geometric Structures in Low Dimensions / Geometry and Dynamics for Discrete Subgroups of Higher Rank Lie Groups.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · May 10

Read Senior Scientist Nikhil Srivastava's report from our joint workshop with @mathmoves.bsky.social last month on AI for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.

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Simons Institute and SLMath Joint Workshop: AI for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

This month, we held a joint workshop with SLMath on AI for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. It was unlike any other Simons Institute workshop I have been to. Over half the participants we...

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Apr 25

Read our newest scholar interview series in partnership with 2024-25 SLMath Journalist-in-Residence Siobhan Roberts, a regular NY Times contributor and biographer. This month, Roberts talked to geometric analyst and Fall 2024 visitor Zihui Zhao (Johns Hopkins U.): www.slmath.org/news-and-eve...

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Terry Taplin @taplinterry.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join the Young People's Symphony Orchestra at its free Community Chamber Concert! 🎻 🎼

Wednesday, April 30 | 5:30 - 7 pm
@mathmoves.bsky.social | 17 Gauss Way
1st Floor | Eisenbud Auditorium

Register: www.ypsomusic.org/events

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Apr 21

Research highlights: "Ricci Flow, Redux". Journalist Siobhan Roberts talks to participants in SLMath's Fall 2024 program on New Frontiers in Curvature about the impact and applications of the late Dr. Richard Hamilton's Ricci flow equation over the last 4 decades: mathinstitutes.org/highlights/r...

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Apr 16

SLMath upcoming free events in Berkeley, CA: Wed 4/30 Young People's Symphony Orchestra chamber music concert - Thurs 5/1 "Roger Antonsen: Emerging Complexity" art opening reception - Tues 5/6 "Uniform Convergence" play by SLMath postdoc Corrine Yap. All are welcome: www.slmath.org/news-and-eve...

Upcoming events at SLMath - see website https://www.slmath.org/news-and-events/spring-2025-events

SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Apr 11

Research highlights: Journalist Siobhan Roberts talks to Tristan Rivière (ETH Zurich), Izar Alonso (Rutgers University) and others about the work of the many mathematicians collaborating during SLMath's Fall 2024 program "Special Geometric Structures and Analysis": mathinstitutes.org/highlights/n...

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Mar 26

Learn more and register for online or in-person participation: www.slmath.org/workshops/1147

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Mar 26

Today in @amermathsoc.bsky.social's Headlines & Deadlines column on teaching & learning, Benjamin Moynihan (The Algebra Project) shares the upcoming SLMath Critical Issues in Mathematics Education workshop on K-12 Mathematics Literacy for 21st-Century Citizenship: mathvoices.ams.org/teachingandl...

Organizing for K-12 Math Literacy for All

March 2025 Ben Moynihan, Executive Director of the Algebra Project, Inc. There are perennial questions that animate me and colleagues in the Algebra Project [1]: How well is the United States of Am…

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American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social · Mar 26

Congratulations to Masaki Kashiwara of Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan, and Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Japan, who was awarded the 2025 Abel Prize for his work in algebraic analysis.

Full Story Here: www.ams.org/news?news_id...

Masaki Kashiwara. Photo Credit: Peter Badge/Typos1/The Abel Prize

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Mar 13

View Hot Topics: Interactions between Harmonic Analysis, Homogeneous Dynamics, and Number Theory presentations by Joshua Zahl (U. of British Columbia) and Hong Wang (NYU Courant) sharing their joint progress on the Kakeya set conjecture, leading to resolution in dim 3: www.slmath.org/news-and-eve...

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Mar 11

These films are in English language. There will be subtitles available in Farsi, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish for all movies, and also in Italian for Secrets of the Surface — thanks to their team of volunteers. Register to host an event here: may12.womeninmaths.org/ideas

Ideas for your event | May12

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Mar 11

To celebrate #May12WIM this year with the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, event hosts worldwide are invited to screen "Journeys of Black Mathematicians" and "Secrets of the Surface: the Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani" between May 1-20, courtesy of Zala Films. may12.womeninmaths.org

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