Two posters featuring RIPS-Los Angeles projects and presented by several team members received Outstanding Presentation Awards at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session. Andrew Belt and Nathan Ng won for their poster, “Polynomial expansion method for the numerical solution of the Lenard-Balescu equation.” The project sponsor […]

Emmanuel Candès (Stanford) will be awarded the 2015 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics “for his work on compressed sensing that has revolutionized signal processing and medical imaging and his related work on computational harmonic analysis, statistics and scientific computing.” The award will […]

Michael Jolly is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University, working on turbulence. We caught up with him during the IPAM long program, Mathematics of Turbulence. What would you call yourself: a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist… ? I’m a mathematician. How did you […]

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA is seeking a second Associate Director (AD) to help lead and organize innovative programs in pure and applied mathematics. The term of appointment will be two years, beginning August 1, 2015. The appointment may be […]