Luca Trevisan and Xihong Lin recently joined IPAM’s Science Advisory Board. Trevisan is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and of mathematics at UC Berkeley and a senior scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. His research is in theoretical computer […]
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) announced its 2018 list of plenary speakers for the 28th edition of the conference to be held August 1-9, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. Six recent IPAM affiliates are among those bestowed with this honor: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore […]
IPAM Board of Trustees member Dr. Jeannette Wing was appointed the Avanessians Director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science. According to the announcement, the Data Science Institute works in areas where the rise of powerful algorithms and massive data has opened new […]
After a thorough national search, IPAM is pleased to announce that UCLA math professor Dimitri (Dima) Shlyakhtenko will assume the directorship of IPAM on July 1, 2017. Dima replaces Russel Caflisch, who is stepping down as Director after nine years. Shlyakhtenko has been a member […]