Flatiron Research Fellow

Job description

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. In 2016, the Foundation launched the Flatiron Institute (FI), a multidisciplinary institute whose mission is to advance scientific research through computational methods, including data analysis, modeling and simulation. The FI hosts scientists, applied mathematicians, and collaborating expert programmers who work to create, deploy and support new state-of-the-art computational methods. POSITION SUMMARY: Applications are invited for postdoctoral Flatiron Research Fellowships (FRF) at the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM), in the Flatiron Institute, in all our active areas of research. These include: Computational physics, including statistical mechanics, biophysics, fluid mechanics, quantum physics, and molecular dynamics Numerical methods for partial differential equations and integral equations Machine learning, especially the areas of optimization, learning theory, probabilistic...