Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics today. Half of the prize is to be shared with Reinhard Genzel of UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Ghez […]
IPAM mourns the death of colleague and friend, Vaughan Jones, Stevenson Chair and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University. Considered one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, Jones’ teaching career began at UCLA in 1980 before moving on to teach at the University of Pennsylvania […]
The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA is seeking an 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, 2021. The appointment may be extended for […]
The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell prize to Warren Bicknell Mori for his outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Mori was honored “for leadership in and pioneering contributions to the theory and kinetic simulations of nonlinear processes […]