Twenty-two RIPS-LA and RIPS-Hong Kong (2012) students presented their research at the Joint Math Meetings on January 11, 2013. Ten teams represented RIPS at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session, and four of them won Outstanding Presentation awards, including Austin Alleman and Arturo Fernandez, presenting the […]
UCLA Mathematics Professor Andrea Bertozzi has been named the inaugural holder of the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity. The endowed chair was established through a gift to UCLA from Betsy Wood Knapp, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder and CEO of BigPicture […]
More than 100 scientific societies, universities, research institutes, and organizations all over the world (including IPAM) are dedicating 2013 as the year of Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE). MPE2013 is an initiative to learn more about the challenges faced by our planet and the underlying […]
The New York Times front-page article “Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs” (November 23, 2012) cites Yann LeCun, Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Courant Institute, New York University. LeCun organized the 2012 IPAM summer school “Deep Learning, […]