On August 1, 2018, Professor Bin Yu was awarded the Elizabeth L. Scott Award at the Joint Statistical Meetings held in Vancouver, British Columbia. The award is presented every other year in honor of Elizabeth L. Scott’s commitment to women’s career advancement in academia. According […]
The first Graduate-level Research in Industrial Projects for Students program in Sendai, Japan (GRIPS-Sendai) concluded in August. The projects gave the two teams, composed of students from the U.S. and Japan, a challenging problem in industrial applications of math proposed by the industry sponsors, Toyota […]
Quanta Magazine recently published the article “Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found” that features the work of four computer scientists and Assaf Naor, a mathematician who has served on IPAM’s Science Advisory Board since 2008. The article describes their discovery of a radical approach to […]
The 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) was held July 31 – August 9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were many prestigious awards announced during the program by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), including the Fields Medal and the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize. […]