Jorge Balbás has started a two-year term as IPAM Associate Director. Balbás is well-known to IPAM: first as a UCLA graduate student and then as a professor of mathematics at California State University Northridge, he attended many IPAM workshops. He was a core participant of […]

Skip Garibaldi, who has served as Associate Director for the past two years, will leave IPAM this summer. During his tenure at IPAM, Skip ran two long programs, a summer school, and many workshops, was instrumental in the implementation of IPAM’s new website and improvements to our processes, […]

The Simons Foundation recently announced the 2015 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The Fellows Programs provide funds to faculty for up to a semester long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. The goal of the Simons Fellows Program is to increase […]

Kristen Altenburger is one of eleven finalists in the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge.  The project is entitled “Linking Women in Opportunity: Evaluating Gender Differences in Self-Promotion.”  Her project uses matching techniques to analyze comparable LinkedIn profiles between men and women and examine differences in self-promotion. […]