Quanta Magazine recently published the article “Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found” that features the work of four computer scientists and Assaf Naor, a mathematician who has served on IPAM’s Science Advisory Board since 2008.  The article describes their discovery of a radical approach to […]

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 […]