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Julian Schwinger Foundation gifts IPAM $750,000
As part of its mission to support basic research in physics, the Julian Schwinger Foundation for Physics Research (JSF) has gifted IPAM $750,000, which will be matched by UCLA’s Division of Physical Sciences, to form an endowment of $1,500,000. Funds generated by this endowment will […]
White Paper: Understanding Many-Particle Systems with Machine Learning
This white paper was prepared by the participants of the fall 2016 long program Understanding Many-Particle Systems with Machine Learning. Interactions between many constituent particles, i.e. quarks, electrons, atoms, molecules, or materials, generally give rise to collective or emergent phenomena in matter. Even when the […]
2017 Sloan Research Fellowship winners include two IPAM affiliates
IPAM congratulates 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship winners in Mathematics, John Duchi (Stanford) and Tom Goldstein (Maryland). Duchi was a speaker in a 2014 IPAM workshop on Stochastic Gradient Methods. Goldstein participated as a member of our 2010 Optimization long program and as a speaker in […]
National Academy of Engineering elects eight IPAM affiliates
Eight IPAM affiliates were recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). According to the NAE, “election to the National Academy of Engineering honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering […]
