Dates: July 20-22, 2026
Location: University of Pennsylvania - David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 209 S 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Supported by the Simons Foundation, ICMS Sofia, SCGP Stony Brook, FAPESP, and IMSA.
Conference Summary
We are pleased to announce the Future Stars Annual Meeting of the Simons Foundation for Supported Institutions. The conference will be held from July 20 to 22, 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, located at 209 S 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
The meeting will feature invited talks by leading mathematicians, alongside short talks by young researchers.
Celebration of Jim Simons and the Scientific Achievements of his Institutes
July 22nd, 12:30pm, Auditorium A4
Schedule
Monday, July 20, 2026
Morning Sessions
Location Room 4C8
| 8:15am |
Opening
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| 8:30am |
Analia Victoria Torres (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba and CIEM-CONICET)
Title: A matrix- valued extension of the Hermite-Laguerre correspondence
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| 9:00am |
Anibal Aravena (UMass Amherst)
Title: Fano visitors
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| 9:30am |
Crystianne Lilian de Andrade (UNICAMP)
Title: Chemotaxis and Reaction in Anomalous Diffusion Dynamics
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| 10:00am |
Alejandro Tolcachier (CIEM-CONICET and FAMAF-UNC)
Title: Complex solvmanifolds with non-invariant holomorphic trivializing sections of the canonical bundle
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| 10:30am |
Extended Coffee Break & Open Discussion
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Main Sessions (Room A4)
| 11:00am |
Opening A4 - Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania)
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Afternoon Sessions
| 12:00pm |
Lunch
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| 12:45pm |
Abhinav Kumar (Renaissance Technologies)
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| 1:45pm |
Boris Alexeev (OpenAI)
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| 2:45pm |
Carlos Alfonso Ruiz Guido (Colegio de Matematicas Bourbaki)
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| 3:45pm |
Michael Douglas (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics - SCGP
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| 4:45pm |
Ernesto Lupercio (CINVESTAV)
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Morning Sessions
Location Room 4C8
| 8:30am |
Samir Albus (University of Miami)
Title: To be determined
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| 9:00am |
Alexander Vitanov (ICMS-Sofia)
Title: Blowup formula for Quantum Chen-Ruan cohomology
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| 9:30am |
Rafael Montezuma Pinheiro Cabral (Federal University of Ceara)
Title: Min-max widths associated with distance functions
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| 10:00am |
Alma Sarai Hernandez Torres (UNAM)
Title: The geometry of the uniform spanning tree in three dimensions
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| 10:30am |
Extended Coffee Break & Open Discussion
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Main Sessions (Room A4)
| 11:00am |
Moira Chas (Stony Brook University)
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Afternoon Sessions
| 12:00pm |
Lunch
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| 12:45pm |
Enrique Ruby Becerra (CINVESTAV)
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| 1:45pm |
Pedro Antonio Muniz Martins (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)
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| 2:45pm |
Leonardo Cavenaghi (ICMS-Sofia & IMI-BAS)
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| 3:45pm |
Carolina Araujo (Institute for pure and Applied Mathematics - IMPA)
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| 4:45pm |
Giovane Paes Galindo Neto (ICMS-Sofia)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Morning Sessions
Location Room 4C8
| 8:30am |
Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Institute, NYU & Simons Foundation)
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| 9:30am |
Jaqueline Mesquita (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)
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Location Room A4
| 11:00am |
Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto)
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| 11:45am |
Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook University & CUNY Graduate Center)
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Celebration of Jim Simons and the Scientific Achievements of his Institutes
July 22nd, 12:30pm, Auditorium A4
Featured Participants:
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Marilyn Simons (Simons Foundation): Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Simons Foundation
Luis Alvarez-Gaume (SCGP): Director of the SCGP, Humboldt Research Awardee & Former Head of the CERN Theory Group
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (Virtual, IHES): Former President of the European Research Council (ERC)
Moira Chas (Stony Brook University): Co-discoverer of String Topology & Leading Expert in Low-Dimensional Topology
Michael Douglas (SCGP): Sackler Prize Laureate & Fellow of the American Physical Society
Phillip Griffiths (Virtual, IAS): Chern Medalist & Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Ludmil Katzarkov (IMSA & ICMS-Sofia): Current Director of IMSA & Future Director of the SCGP
Abhinav Kumar (Renaissance Technologies): Renowned for Breakthroughs in Sphere Packing & Former MIT Faculty
Ernesto Lupercio (Cinvestav): ICTP Ramanujan Prize Winner & Alumnus of the Global Young Academy
Juan Maldacena (IAS): Chair of the SCGP Scientific Board, Fundamental Physics Prize & Dirac Medalist
Jaqueline Mesquita (UNICAMP): President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society and UMALCA, L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awardee
John Morgan (SCGP): Founding Faculty Member & Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Julian Revalski (ICMS-Sofia): Current Director of ICMS-Sofia & Former President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
David Spergel (Simons Foundation): President of the Simons Foundation, MacArthur Fellow & Breakthrough Prize Laureate
Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook University & CUNY Graduate Center): Abel Prize Laureate & Member of the National Academy of Sciences
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Afternoon Sessions
| 2:00pm |
Lauren Williams (Harvard University)
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| 3:00pm |
Claire Voisin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS)
Title: Points of zero-cycles of algebraic varieties
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| 4:00pm |
John Pardon (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics - SCGP)
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| 5:00pm |
Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology - Caltech)
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| 5:50pm |
Rob Morris (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - IMPA)
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Registration and Financial Support
Financial support for this conference is managed and distributed by the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA). Funding is allocated into two primary categories: participants based in Latin America and participants based outside of Latin America.
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Notice for Latin American Applicants
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Applications for funding from individuals residing in Latin America are conditional upon possessing a valid US visa during the application process, or possessing an alternative legal mechanism to enter the United States, such as dual citizenship. The registration deadline for Latin American participants is June 10, 2026.
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Please utilize the appropriate form below to complete your registration:
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General Registration
For participants who do not require financial support from IMSA.
Access Form No.1
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U.S. Participants (Support Requested)
For participants based in the United States who require financial support from IMSA.
Access Form No.2
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Latin American Participants (Support Requested)
For participants based in Latin America who require financial support from IMSA. The distinct visa inquiries require a separate processing form.
Access Form No.3
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Invited Speakers
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Carolina Araujo, IMPA
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Leonardo Cavenaghi, ICMS
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Moira Chas, Stony Brook
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Sergei Gukov, Caltech
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Ernesto Lupercio, ICMS/Cinvestav
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Jaqueline Mesquita, UNICAMP
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Tony Pantev, UPENN
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Carlos Alfonso Ruiz Guido, Colegio de Matemáticas Bourbaki
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Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook/CUNY
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Yuri Tschinkel, CIMS/NYU, Simons Foundation
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Jacob Tsimerman, Toronto
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Claire Voisin, CNRS
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Lauren Williams, Harvard
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