Subhash Khot (New York University) has been named a MacArthur Fellow for his work in providing critical insight into unresolved problems in the field of computational complexity. According to its website, the MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary […]
Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, has received a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation. According to the Simons Foundation, the Math + X Investigator award provides research funds to professors at American […]
It’s been a very full and exciting year at IPAM, and we invite you to read about it in our 2016 newsletter! In this issue, we feature: Matthias Scheffler (Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and UC Santa Barbara) who studies computational materials science to solve […]
IPAM participant and speaker Wotao Yin (UCLA) was awarded the 2016 Morningside Medal of Applied Mathematics at the 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) on August 6, 2016. According to the ICCM, “the Morningside Medal of Mathematics is awarded to outstanding mathematicians of Chinese […]