Ana Mari Cauce was recently selected to be the 33rd president of the The University of Washington. She is the first woman and the first Latina to serve as president of the public research university. Dr. Cauce participated in IPAM’s Latinos in the Mathematical Sciences […]
MacArthur Foundation recently awarded John Novembre (University of Chicago) a MacArthur Fellowship. Novembre is a computational biologist who develops novel data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate the correlations among genomic diversity, geography, and demographic structure. He participated in IPAM’s long program High-Throughput Genomics in […]
Terry Tao, member of IPAM’s Science Advisory Board and professor of math at UCLA, has published a solution to the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle about the properties of an infinite, random sequence of +1s and -1s. In the 1930s, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős wondered […]
This white paper on the recent progress and remaining open questions related to IPAM’s long program Mathematics of Turbulence was written by Charlie Doering and Joe Klewicki. Read the full report. Introduction Turbulence is perhaps the primary paradigm of complex nonlinear multi-scale dynamics. It is […]