Barry Barish, a leading expert on gravitational waves, will give the second series of Green Family Lectures this year on January 28 and 30, 2019.  At Caltech, Barish was the principal investigator, then director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).  He created the LIGO […]

The American Physical Society (APS) recently announced the recipients of their spring 2019 awards and prizes.  These awards are a prestigious honor given to members of the scientific community who are peer nominated and then reviewed by APS-appointed selection committees.  Among the recipients are IPAM […]

Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, will be presented with the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award at the 2018 Fudan Science and Innovation Forum on December 16, 2018 in Shanghai, China.  Daubechies is the only recipient of […]

On September 7, 2018, Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (FIHF) recognized and welcomed seven inventors into this year’s class.  All inductees are selected through a peer nomination process.  They can come from any field, but must be a named inventor on a U.S. patent and […]