Simons Foundation
New York, NY, USA
Summer Research Assistant, Simons-NSBP Scholar ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW The Simons Foundation is a private foundation established in 1994 in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons. With an annual grants and programs budget of $450 million, the foundation's mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. The foundation pursues its mission through its grant-making division, comprising programs in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Outreach and Education, and autism research, and through its internal research division, the Flatiron Institute. Among the Simons Foundation's grantees, is the Simons Observatory (SO). The SO is a collection of state-of-the-art telescopes that prioritize measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and are capable of addressing a wide range of astrophysical questions. To date three of the observatory's telescopes have achieved first light, and more will come online soon. When the...