Congratulations to Rafail Ostrovsky (UCLA), who just received the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “for outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security.” According to his department’s webpage, Rafail’s research interests encompass cryptography […]

As part of its mission to support basic research in physics, the Julian Schwinger Foundation for Physics Research (JSF) has gifted IPAM $750,000, which will be matched by UCLA’s Division of Physical Sciences, to form an endowment of $1,500,000. Funds generated by this endowment will […]

IPAM congratulates 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship winners in Mathematics, John Duchi (Stanford) and Tom Goldstein (Maryland). Duchi was a speaker in a 2014 IPAM workshop on Stochastic Gradient Methods. Goldstein participated as a member of our 2010 Optimization long program and as a speaker in […]

Eight IPAM affiliates were recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). According to the NAE, “election to the National Academy of Engineering honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering […]