Congratulations to Rafail Ostrovsky (UCLA), who just received the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “for outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security.” According to his department’s web page, Rafail’s research interests encompass […]
As part of its mission to support basic research in physics, the Julian Schwinger Foundation for Physics Research (JSF) has gifted IPAM $750,000, which will be matched by UCLA’s Division of Physical Sciences, to form an endowment of $1,500,000. Funds generated by this endowment will […]
This white paper was prepared by the participants of the fall 2016 long program Understanding Many-Particle Systems with Machine Learning. Interactions between many constituent particles, i.e. quarks, electrons, atoms, molecules, or materials, generally give rise to collective or emergent phenomena in matter. Even when the […]
IPAM congratulates 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship winners in Mathematics, John Duchi (Stanford) and Tom Goldstein (Maryland). Duchi was a speaker in a 2014 IPAM workshop on Stochastic Gradient Methods. Goldstein participated as a member of our 2010 Optimization long program and as a speaker in […]
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