The week of February 5, 2018 IPAM held one of its largest workshops to date on New Deep Learning Techniques.  The workshop included two public lectures by Yann LeCun, Director of Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research and professor at NYU, as part of IPAM’s Green Family […]

The National Science Foundation has appointed former IPAM Board of Trustees member Dr. Juan Meza as their Division Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences, effective Feb 20, 2018.  Meza is coming to NSF from UC Merced, where he was Dean of Natural Sciences.  Prior […]

This white paper was prepared by the participants of the fall 2017 long program Complex High-Dimensional Energy Landscapes. Recent advances in computational resources and the development of high-throughput frameworks enable the efficient sampling of complicated multivariate functions. This includes energy and electronic property landscapes of inorganic, […]

IPAM’s Director of Special Projects, Stan Osher, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering on Wednesday, February 7, 2018!  According to the NAE website, election is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.  Osher has been a speaker and organizer for many of […]