On Monday, June 20, 2016, NSF Director France Córdova and Nancy Sung, Head of the NSF’s Beijing office, visited Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and met with the participants of the RIPS-Hong Kong program. Tony Chan, President of HKUST and Brian Bedell, the […]
IPAM Director of Special Projects, Stan Osher (UCLA), was awarded the 2016 CityU’s William Benter Prize “for his significant contributions to applying mathematics to solving real world problems.” Adding to an already impressive and noteworthy list of achievements, this prize recognizes his life’s work in […]
Stacey Beggs, IPAM’s Assistant Director, was presented with UCLA’s Green Gala Award for her work on sustainability at UCLA’s Inaugural Green Gala on May 23rd. Under Stacey’s leadership, IPAM is UCLA’s first zero-waste facility as the entire campus works towards its goal of zero waste […]
On May 18, IPAM was pleased to host a public lecture by Tadashi Tokieda entitled “A World from a Sheet of Paper.” By folding, stacking, crumpling, and tearing paper, he demonstrated a variety of phenomena in physics and geometry such as elasticity. His table-top demonstrations […]
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