The 2025 The Simons Puerto Rico Winter School in Computational Physics is a Simons-funded collaboration among the University of Puerto Rico, Brown University, and the Simons Flatiron Institute to host a one-week institute on the UPR Piedras campus during which UPR undergraduates will learn about a wide range of computational physics topics from leading experts.
With faculty Carlos Vicente (UPR—Piedras), and Brown faculty Savvas M Koushiappas, Brenda Rubenstein, Ian Dell'Antonio, Kemp Plumb, Loukas Gouskos, and Brown administrator Ariel Green (Brown Physics), the Winter School's second year was a resounding success. Part of the Simons-funded Puerto Rico-Brown Exploration (PROBE) Program, the Simons Puerto Rico Winter School in Computational Physics brings Brown faculty to the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPRRP) campus for a week-long series of classes and lectures together with UPRRP faculty.