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The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Berkeley, California (formerly MSRI). Learn more at slmath.org or http://linktr.ee/mathmoves.
Thank you for sharing! (As a reminder, all are welcome to come by the Austine McDonnell Hearst Library at SLMath in Berkeley during our normal business hours - these and many other mathematical volumes are available to read on site.)
The Rising Sea around the world, part 2: here on display -- with other excellent titles -- at the @mathmoves.bsky.social library.
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
September 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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.
www.mathicalbooks.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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....
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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....
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#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

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August 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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/....
August 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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....
June 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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....
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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...
June 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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-...
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...
simons.berkeley.edu
May 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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...
April 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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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
April 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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...
MathInstitutes.org
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April 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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...
April 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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...
MathInstitutes.org
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April 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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…
mathvoices.ams.org
March 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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...
March 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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March 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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March 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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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... 🧪
March 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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
February 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM