The National Science Board awarded Richard Tapia the 2014 Vannevar Bush Award which recognizes “exceptional, lifelong leaders in science and technology who have made substantial contributions to the welfare of the nation through public service activities in science, technology and public policy.” Since the late […]

A number of IPAM participants, speakers, organizers and board members were honored at the 2014 SIAM meeting. Weinan E (Princeton) received the Theodore von Karman Prize. John Lowengrub (UC Irvine) was awarded the Julian Cole Lectureship. Irene Gamba (Univ. of Texas) gave the AWM-SIAM Sonia […]

A number of IPAM Science Advisory Board (SAB) members, organizers, speakers, and participants are named to Highly Cited Researchers in a new survey which takes the top 1% in each field of highly cited papers between 2002 and 2012. As noted on their site, Highly […]

Congratulations to Terence Tao (UCLA), one of five recipients of the Inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics funded by Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner. The prize “aims to recognize major advances in the field, honor the world’s best mathematicians, support their future endeavors and communicate the […]