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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">October 18, 2020 at 3:54:37 PM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are the Undergraduate Math Association (UMA). We are holding the following event (kindly check info below), featuring our guest speaker, an eminent alumnus Dr. James Simons, SB '58. It would be much appreciated
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<span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Hoefler Text",serif;color:#002060">Simons Says: James Simons @ MIT UMA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Hoefler Text",serif;color:#002060">Speaker: Dr. James Simons, SB ’58</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hoefler Text",serif">Founder and Chairman, Renaissance Technologies</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Marion",serif;color:#002060">“My Life and Careers: The interesting things I have done since graduating from MIT in 1958.”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. James Simons, SB ’58</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MIT alumnus James (“Jim”) Simons is an eminent mathematician, investor, and philanthropist. Among other major contributions to geometry and topology, Simons discovered the Chern-Simons invariants,
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He is the founder of the world’s second largest hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, where he served as CEO for over 30 years before becoming board chair. Simons also founded the Simons Foundation,
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333F50;background:#F8F8F8">The MIT Undergraduate Mathematics Association (UMA) is the official math club of MIT. Our primary goal is to serve all MIT students interested in math by fostering
community engagement, holding events, and carrying out initiatives to improve the student experience. Ongoing efforts include talks by professors, postdocs, and fellow students, weekly social game nights, compilation of academic and career resources, and other
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