The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The list includes three members of IPAM’s Science Advisory Board: Emmanuel Candès (Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford), Cynthia […]
Recent political campaigns have demonstrated the power of data analysis and social network analysis. An IPAM workshop on April 22 and 23 addressed the emerging area of mathematics of politics, with talks by Lynn Vavreck (UCLA, Political Science), Solomon Messing (Facebook), and other researchers. Additionally, […]
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Professor Irene Gamba (University of Texas) to give the 2014 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. Gamba has served on IPAM’s Science Advisory Board, participated in numerous IPAM workshops, and […]
Marie Snipes is an assistant professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Kenyon College, working on geometric analysis. What would you call yourself: a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist… ? A mathematician! I study the geometry of metric spaces and maps between metric spaces (e.g., […]
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