The following white paper was written by the organizers of the IPAM long program on Quantitative Linear Algebra, held in the spring of 2018, with contributions from many of the program’s participants. The purpose of the program was to bring together topics from a number […]
The 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) was held July 31 – August 9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were many prestigious awards announced during the program by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), including the Fields Medal and the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize. […]
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and The American Mathematical Society (AMS) have chosen Professor Bryna Kra to give the 2019 AWM-AMS Noether Lecture at the 2019 Joint Math Meetings (JMM) in Baltimore, Maryland. The AWM-AMS Noether Lecture was founded in 1980 to honor […]
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 […]