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 […]

Last week, IPAM’s Green Family Lecture Series featured three talks by Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.  Daubechies was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2011-2014. She has received many awards for […]

IPAM is pleased to announce four IPAM affiliates’ election into the National Academy of Sciences for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research) was a workshop speaker on three occasions, and will speak at one of the workshops in the […]

IPAM mourns the death of a colleague and friend, Walter Kohn. Kohn made major contributions to the physics of semiconductors, superconductivity, surface physics and catalysis. Since 1979, he was a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the founding […]