Jason Xu is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomathematics at UCLA primarily interested in developing statistical methods for non-convex optimization problems. He participated in IPAM’s summer research program for students, RIPS, as a student in 2012 and as an academic mentor in […]
Yunan Yang is a PhD candidate at University of Texas (UT) at Austin working on inverse problems and applications. She first visited IPAM in the fall of 2016 to attend a workshop, and returned in the spring of 2017 for the long program Computational Challenges in Oil Field Applications. Yunan […]
Andreea Minca is an assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. She came to IPAM for the first time to participate in the long program Broad Perspectives and New Directions in Financial Mathematics. What field do you work […]
Michael Jolly is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University, working on turbulence. We caught up with him during the IPAM long program, Mathematics of Turbulence. What would you call yourself: a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist… ? I’m a mathematician. How did you […]