The City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has awarded the prestigious William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics 2018 to Professor Ingrid Daubechies. According to CityU’s website, she is “an internationally acclaimed scholar of wavelet theory, who has significantly advanced digital data processing” and “has made […]
IPAM is pleased to announce that Maria D’Orsogna will begin a two-year term as IPAM Associate Director on August 1, 2018. D’Orsogna is currently a professor of mathematics at the California State University, Northridge and holds an adjunct professor position in the Biomathematics Department in […]
Fields Medalist Vaughan Jones visited IPAM on May 1 and 2, 2018 to give the Green Family Lectures and participate in the IPAM workshop, Approximation Properties in Operator Algebras and Ergodic Theory. Jones’s first talk, “What is it about the Plane” introduced the notion of […]
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elected 84 new members and 21 foreign associates on May 1, 2018. As noted on the NAS website, members are chosen for their distinguished and continuing achievements in their original research. This membership is one of the highest honors […]