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Terry Tao Solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem

Posted on 10/9/15 in News

Terry Tao, member of IPAM’s Science Advisory Board and professor of math at UCLA, has published a solution to the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle about the properties of an infinite, random sequence of +1s and -1s. In the 1930s, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős wondered […]

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IPAM Remembers Peter Smereka

Posted on 9/23/15 in News

IPAM mourns the death of a colleague and friend, Peter Smereka.  Peter was a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan since 1994.  He received his PhD from UCSB and spent three years at UCLA as a postdoc, with Stan Osher and Russ Caflisch […]

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IPAM Introduces Six New Board Members

Posted on 9/14/15 in News

IPAM is pleased to announce six new members to its Science Advisory Board and Board of Trustees. Please join us in welcoming them to IPAM! Monique Miller and Steven Koonin will serve on the Board of Trustees. Miller is a Managing Director and Head of […]

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IPAM Presents its 2015 Newsletter

Posted on 9/4/15 in News

IPAM is pleased to announce the release of its annual newsletter for 2015.  Featured in this issue are Tandy Warnow (Univ. of Illinois) who studies complex problems in genomics and participated in the IPAM 2011 long program and 2015 workshop on the subject, and Rene […]

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