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 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

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

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

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....

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....

#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

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/....

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:

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....

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...

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.

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. simons.berkeley.edu/news/simons-...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Applications are now open for the @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org awards, which honor the best #SciComm work in 2024. Science communicators, science journalists, and research scientists can all apply in separate categories: www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... 🧪

I'm thrilled that CALCULATING CHIMPANZEES, BRAINY BEES, AND OTHER ANIMALS WITH MIND-BLOWING MATHEMATICAL ABILITIES (ill. by @jsinquett.bsky.social, pub. by MIT Kids) won a Mathical Honor today. Thank you @mathmoves.bsky.social for this incredible recognition and congrats to the other books!🐵🐝#kidlit

The 2025 #MathicalBooks are here! 27 books for ages 2-18 with inspiring math content have been named Mathical Award Winners and Mathical Honor Books by our selection committee of mathematicians, librarians, educators, & early childhood experts. Get the list: www.mathicalbooks.org/2025/02/2025...

A celebration of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's legacy in the mathematical sciences may be viewed online in the open-access #CelebratioMathematica journal at celebratio.org/ChoquetBruha..., featuring a complete bibliography of her works as well as special essays honoring her life and research.

Journeys of Black Mathematicians, a 2-part documentary by Zala Films, is now available for digital purchase/rental and on DVD, and has begun airing via US public television in 48 states. Free access may be available for a limited time via www.pbs.org/show/journey.... More details: www.jbmfilm.com.

Reminder: Apply by Feb. 4 for SLMath's ADJOINT 2025 Summer Research for individual mathematicians and statisticians + small independent groups taking place June 30-July 11th in Berkeley, California. View full details: mailchi.mp/slmath/adjoi.... Direct link to apply: www.mathprograms.org/db/SLMath

For those in Seattle, join us for a free public screening (#JMM2025 conference registration not required) of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Creating Pathways, our newest documentary with Zala Films, TODAY (Saturday 1/11) at 11:30am, Seattle Convention Center Arch at 705 Pike, Room 4C-3 (Level 4).

The CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Indigenous Voices in Mathematics takes place Jan 8 & 9.📍Seattle Convention Center. 🔗 Register 👉 tinyurl.com/47kw6n86 Speakers include: 🔸Benjamin Anderson-Sackaney (PIMS Postdoc) 🔸Layne Burns (First Nations University) 🔸Florence Glanfield (UAlberta) #JMM2025

Apply by February 4, 2025, for SLMath's 2025 ADJOINT + Self-ADJOINT program, hosting individuals and small groups of US mathematicians/statisticians for collaborative research on site at SLMath followed by yearlong opportunities. Join us in Berkeley 6/30-7/11 - details at: slmath.org/adjoint

SLMath News: mailchi.mp/slmath/slmat.... Featuring Fall 2024 research programs, Zala Films' Journeys of Black Mathematicians film premiere / US public TV broadcast, reflections from Journalist in Residence Siobhan Roberts, Spring workshops in Berkeley, and updates from #MathicalBooks & Numberphile.

Applications from individual US mathematicians and statisticians & independent groups of 3-5 researchers for the upcoming 2025 ADJOINT & Self-ADJOINT program are open through Feb. 4, 2025. Participants spend 2 weeks at SLMath (formerly MSRI) in Berkeley 6/30-7/11 - details at www.slmath.org/adjoint.

Remembering the legacy of Richard Hamilton (1943–2024) and his contributions to the areas of mathematics represented in this semester’s SLMath research programs, by journalist in residence Siobhan Roberts: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/s...

Congratulations to all of this year's winners of the #MathicalBooks awards for US Title I school libraries! The 2024–25 Mathical Collection Development Awards are generously supported by the Guru Krupa Foundation. Learn more about this year's winners with @sljournal.bsky.social:

I am pleased to announce that my school has been awarded a Mathical Collection Development Award by @mathmoves.bsky.social & School Library Journal to expand our collection of award-winning #mathicalbooks! You can check them out anytime at mathicalbooks.org #TLSky #EduSky

Hello to our followers here with some blue skies over the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkeley! We'll be sharing news of SLMath opportunities for the mathematics community as well as the #MathicalBooks Book Prize for PreK-12th grade readers, upcoming films, public events & more.