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Majda wins 2016 AMS Steele Prize
Andrew Majda (NYU) won the 2016 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for two pioneering and seminal papers on existence and stability of multidimensional shock fronts. According to the AMS, the prize is awarded for a paper, whether recent or not, that has […]
Larry Guth Wins Prize in Mathematics
The Breakthrough Prize and its founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, announced the recipients of the 2016 awards at the 3rd Annual Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2015. […]
Tkatchenko Contributes to Recent Achievement in Chemistry
An article in a recent issue of Nature entitled “Software predicts slew of fiendish crystal structures” prominently mentions Alexandre Tkatchenko, who led a research team at Fritz Haber Institute that contributed to the prediction of the crystal structure of five, complex, ‘drug-like’ organic molecules. The […]
IPAM Program Organizers and Board Member Named AMS Fellows
The American Math Society (AMS) has announced their 2016 Fellows. This year, four IPAM program organizers and one board member are honored with this distinction: Eric Carlen (Rutgers) – organizer of Kinetic Transport long program Alice Chang (Princeton) – founding member of IPAM’s Science Advisory […]