Special Events and Conferences

Participation in this workshop is by application only.  Due to the nature of this program, all participants are expected to attend the entire workshop (five days).  Successful non-local applicants will be awarded lodging and funds to contribute towards travel expenses. All successful applicants will receive registration instructions and will pay a $25 registration fee.

Please send requested documents and questions to: amigas@ipam.ucla.edu.

Apply

All components below must be completed by the deadline of March 19, 2023 at 11:59pm PT to be considered for participation in this workshop.

Update: applications are now closed

• IPAM application form:

Complete IPAM’s general application form. Please ignore the “Personal Statement” and “Other Application Materials” sections as the items requested below will cover this.  Also, you must select a response from the dropdown menu under the “Funding” section but you can ignore the fill-in subsections.

• Personal Statement:

Please write a brief (max 5,000 character) statement describing your interest in attending the 2023 AMIGAs summer program.  Describe the mathematical areas of research you are interested in pursuing during your graduate program and the approximate timeline for choosing an advisor.  We want to understand how your identities have impacted your mathematical journey. To the extent that you feel comfortable sharing, please describe your academic journey, possibly including your experiences collaborating with, supporting, and being supported by your peers, particularly those from groups marginalized in mathematics. Send a pdf of your statement to amigas@ipam.ucla.edu.

• Resume or CV

Please send a pdf of your resume or CV to amigas@ipam.ucla.edu.

• One letter or reference: 

One letter of reference from someone who can speak to your potential in your graduate program. Please email your letter-writer the following sentences: 

I am writing to request a  brief letter of reference to support my application to the 2023 AMIGAs summer program to be held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in UCLA, July 10-14, 2023. This week-long program is designed to support and train incoming second or third year graduate students who plan to focus on research in the fields of applied and computational mathematics or data science, with a special emphasis on increasing the number of women, particularly women of color. The program would appreciate your candid opinion of me as a student, including in what capacity you have worked with me, my potential for success in my graduate program in the mathematical sciences, how I might benefit from the program, and how I may contribute to this community. For more information about the program, please see the AMIGAs website: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/amigas. IPAM requests that you send your letter to amigas@ipam.ucla.edu.