Facebook recently announced that Yann LeCun will be joining the company to direct a massive new effort to advance the field of artificial intelligence. LeCun is one of the most prominent artificial-intelligence researchers in the world. He is currently the director of NYU’s Center for […]
This article was written by Roja Bandari, who graduated from UCLA in 2013 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering As a participant in the 2010 IPAM program “Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities,” I formed an appreciation for IPAM’s ability to connect scholars of […]
Graeme Henkelman is a professor of chemistry at University of Texas and Keith Promislow is a professor of mathematics at Michigan State University. Together they organized the long program Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future in fall 2013. We caught up with them in between workshops. What […]
Established in 2002, the Blackwell-Tapia Conference honors the work of mathematicians David H. Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia who inspired a generation of African American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences. The seventh Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be presented at the 2014 […]