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Mathematics faculty members Distinguished Professor Michael Larsen and Professor Ayelet Lindenstrauss were each named 2022 Simons Fellows. 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.

Professor Larsen will study the interplay between group theory and number theory. A central theme connecting them is monodromy: the study of the symmetries revealed by a parametrized family of geometric objects as the parameter follows a closed loop.

Professor Lindenstrauss will work on calculations of the algebraic K-theory of new central division algebras, and will explore aspects of a way of constructing new algebras, called the Loday construction, from the data of a commutative ring k and a commutative k-algebra R.

Professors Larsen and Lindenstrauss plan to spend the Fall 2022 term at the Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University.