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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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Grothendieck Shenanigans: Permutons From Pipe Dreams via Integrable Probability

Posted on 8/20/24 in News

Submitted by A. H. MORALES, G. PANOVA, L. PETROV, D. YELIUSSIZOV AbstractIf Alice and Bob each take a walk, a random one, what is the chance they will meet? If n people walk randomly in Manhattan from the Upper East Side going south or west, […]

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In memoriam: Jim Simons

Posted on 5/14/24 in News

IPAM is saddened to share the passing of James “Jim” Simons on May 10, 2024. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legend in quantitative investing, and a motivated and generous philanthropist. From 1968 to 1978 he was chair of the math department at Stony Brook University in […]

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