The Simons Foundation has announced the 2021 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. Among the remarkable mathematicians and theoretical physicists selected as Simons Fellows this year are the following IPAM affiliates:

• Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), former IPAM Board of Trustees member.
• Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington), organizer, speaker, and core participant for IPAM’s 2021 long program, Mathematical and Computational Challenges in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
• Charles Doering (University of Michigan), organizer and speaker for IPAM’s 2021 workshop, Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows.
• Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia University), organizer and speaker for IPAM’s 2017 workshop, Gauge Theory and Categorification.
• Hung Tran (University of Wisconsin-Madison), speaker for IPAM’s 2020 workshop, Mean Field Games and Applications.
• Firas Rassoul-Agha (University of Utah), speaker for IPAM’s 2020 workshop, Stochastic Analysis Related to Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs.
• Konstantin Mischaikow (Rutgers University), speaker for IPAM’s workshop, Beam Dynamics.
• Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), speaker for IPAM’s 2017 workshop, Gauge Theory and Categorification.     
• Joel Kamnitzer (University of Toronto), speaker for IPAM’s 2017 workshop, Gauge Theory and Categorification.     
• Ivan Corwin (Columbia University), speaker for IPAM’s 2020 workshop, Asymptotic Algebraic Combinatorics.
• Michael Yampolsky (University of Toronto), core participant for IPAM’s 2007 long program, Random Shapes.

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