On October 7, 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences will induct 228 new members at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Members of the 237th class include five IPAM affiliates, who are recognized for their contributions to Academy publications and studies in science, engineering, […]
IPAM congratulates the Class of 2017 SIAM Fellows! Of the 28 members, six are affiliated with IPAM: Emmanuel Candès (Stanford)–Science Advisory Board member and organizer for Optimization long program in 2010 Rama Cont (Imperial)–core participant in Financial Mathematics program long program in 2015 and speaker/organizer […]
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 […]