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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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Interview with Wes Campbell

Posted on 1/30/25 in Interviews

Wes Campbell is the principal investigator at the Campbell Group inside UCLA Physics. He leads a team that is using ultra cold Barium 133 to create trapped ion systems. These trapped ions easily display their quantum states, acting as qubits for quantum computing. Wes was […]

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Interview with Terrence George

Posted on 1/30/25 in Interviews

Terrence George researches dimer models, which model spin states in physics; he is especially interested what happens in larger lattices. Such mathematical models are used by physicists to investigate statistical mechanics in extreme conditions and at phase transitions of matter. Terrence has been working with […]

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