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IPAM Seeking an Associate Director

Posted on 10/15/24 in Press Releases

Oct. 15, 2024, Los Angeles, CA 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 […]

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Alexander Watson Wins Journal of Mathematical Physics Young Researcher Award

Posted on 10/14/24 in News

Alexander Watson at the University of Minnesota wins 2023 Journal of Mathematical Physics Young Researcher Award for his seminal work on electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene, a novel 2D material. Watson participated in IPAM’s Advancing Quantum Mechanics with Mathematics and Statistics long program in […]

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David Baker Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Posted on 10/14/24 in News

David Baker at the University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 for computational protein design. Baker participated in IPAM’s workshop Design of Drugs and Chemicals that Influence the Body in 2011. For more […]

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Geoffrey Hinton Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted on 10/14/24 in News

Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, along with John Hopfield at Princeton University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Hinton was an organizer of the IPAM Graduate Summer School: […]

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