Leland Wilkinson, chief scientist at H20, a long time IPAM Board of Trustees Member, and a great supporter of IPAM passed away on Friday Dec. 10th, 2021.   Leland’s work had enormous impact on a variety of fields, including statistics, data visualization, data science and machine […]

The Simons Foundation has awarded a $5M Target Grant for the project “Moiré Materials Magic” to Alan MacDonald, Eric Cances, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Efthimios Kaxiras, Lin Lin, Mitchell Luskin, Angel Rubio, and Maciej Zworski. According to Mitch Luskin, the project was hatched “at lunch during the […]

This week, Clarivate released its list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers. The list is compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate based on data collected from scholarly publication of papers that ranked in the top 1% by peer citations during the previous decade. […]

On October 25, 2021, IPAM had the pleasure of featuring Nobel Prize winning physicist Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of Physics & Astronomy, as a speaker in its Green Family Lecture series. One of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and head of UCLA’s Galactic […]