On January 17, 2014, nine RIPS-LA and RIPS-Hong Kong students presented five posters at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session at the Joint Math Meetings. Two of the posters won Outstanding Presentation Awards. Anna Ma (UCLA) and Yang Hu (CSU San Marcos) won for their poster, […]
The American Mathematical Society hosted a Congressional Briefing entitled “How Math Fuels the Knowledge Economy,” on December 11, 2013. The event was hosted by Congressman Jerry McNerny, who holds a mathematics PhD. The invited speaker was Mark L. Green, Co-founder and former Director of IPAM. […]
The American Mathematical Society recently announced its 2014 Fellows. The list includes three current or former IPAM board members. Amie Wilkinson, professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, is a member of IPAM’s Science Advisory Board. Rodrigo Bañuelos, professor of mathematics at Purdue, and […]
Facebook recently announced that Yann LeCun will be joining the company to direct a massive new effort to advance the field of artificial intelligence. LeCun is one of the most prominent artificial-intelligence researchers in the world. He is currently the director of NYU’s Center for […]