Simons Foundation Courses

Bioinspired Ocean Exploration - Efficient Locomotion and Robotic Systems

Discover how jellyfish-inspired robotics could revolutionize ocean exploration through efficient locomotion principles, leading to innovative solutions for comprehensive marine data collection.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Themes and Variations in Social Brain Circuits - April 10, 2024

Explore how fruit fly courtship rituals reveal fundamental mechanisms of social behavior, brain circuits, and evolutionary adaptations through interdisciplinary research and neural circuit analysis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Next Great Scientific Theory is Hiding Inside a Neural Network

Explore how neural networks can revolutionize scientific discovery by capturing underlying physics and enabling researchers to extract new theoretical insights through innovative machine learning approaches.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Evolution of Red Supergiants to Supernova - March 22, 2024

Explore the fascinating journey of red supergiants as they transform into supernovae, examining their evolutionary stages and final explosive moments in stellar astronomy.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Story of the First Two Hours of a Fly's Life - Early Development in Drosophila

Dive into the fascinating journey of fruit fly embryonic development, exploring physics and biology intersections through fluid dynamics, waves, and mechanics in early developmental stages.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Climate Multiscale Challenge From the Lens of the Ocean

Explore the complex interplay of ocean dynamics and climate change through submesoscale turbulence, examining multiscale challenges and potential carbon dioxide removal solutions in marine systems.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Weak Lensing with a Billion Galaxies

Explore the fascinating phenomenon of weak gravitational lensing and its role in mapping dark matter distribution across billions of galaxies, revealing fundamental insights about our universe's structure.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Face to Face: The Special Ways of Our Social Minds and Brains

Explore the fascinating neuroscience of facial recognition and social cognition, discovering how primate brains process faces and develop complex social abilities through specialized neural networks.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Numerical Methods for Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

Explore advanced numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches and future challenges in quantum dynamics research.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Non-Markovian Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems - Numerical Methods and Tensor Network Approaches

Explore advanced numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches and future challenges in quantum dynamics research.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Non-Markovian Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems

Explore advanced numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches and future challenges in quantum dynamics research.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Numerical Methods for Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

Explore numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches while comparing methodologies and identifying future research directions.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Non-Markovian Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems

Explore advanced numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches and future challenges in quantum dynamics research.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Non-Markovian Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems - Numerical Methods and Tensor Network Approaches

Explore advanced numerical methods for non-Markovian open quantum systems, focusing on tensor network approaches while comparing methodologies and identifying future research directions.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI in Climate Science: From Emulation to New Discoveries

Discover how AI revolutionizes climate science simulations, enabling better modeling of Earth's complex systems and extracting new insights from vast environmental datasets to advance our understanding of climate dynamics.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video