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White Paper: “Mathematics of Intelligences 2024”

Posted on 2/27/25 in Reports and White Papers

The quest to understand intelligence is one of the great scientific endeavors, on par with quests to understand the origins of life or the foundations of the physical world. Several scientific communities have made significant progress on this quest. Relevant fields like animal cognition, cognitive […]

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LeCun, Hinton, Bengio, and Li receive the Queen Elizabeth prize for Engineering

Posted on 2/13/25 in News

Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li have received the Queen Elizabeth prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for contributions to the development of Modern Machine Learning, a core component of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements. The QEPrize champions bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of […]

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SIAM Polya prize for Professor Mason Porter

Posted on 2/7/25 in News

The 2025 George PĂłlya Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to Mason Porter. IPAM is pleased to share that UCLA Professor of Mathematics, Mason Porter, has been awarded the 2025 George PĂłlya Prize for Mathematical Exposition. To learn more, please click here.

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Interview with Igor Pak

Posted on 1/30/25 in Interviews

Igor Pak is a Professor of Mathematics at UCLA with research interests in Combinatorics, continuing a strong tradition of this subject at UCLA that began in the 1940s.  Pak’s interests range from polyhedral geometry, questions about tilings and lattices; his interests now include also topics […]

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