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 […]

IPAM mourns the death of a colleague and friend, Peter Smereka.  Peter was a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan since 1994.  He received his PhD from UCSB and spent three years at UCLA as a postdoc, with Stan Osher and Russ Caflisch […]