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 […]

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 […]

Optimal control problems lead to Hamilton-Jacobi Bellman (HJB) differential equations in many space variables for finding the cost function to be optimized. This beautiful connection has not generally led to effective numerical methods because grid based solutions of partial differential equations in n variables generally […]

SUMMARY RECOMMENDATIONS This report reflects discussions and recommendation from the September 1-2, 2015 NSF-IPAM Mathematical Sciences Internship Workshop held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA.  The workshop was organized by Russel Caflisch, Mathematics, UCLA; Alan Lee, VP of Engineering, Advanced […]