Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, along with John Hopfield at Princeton University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Hinton was an organizer of the IPAM Graduate Summer School: […]

Submitted by A. H. MORALES, G. PANOVA, L. PETROV, D. YELIUSSIZOV AbstractIf Alice and Bob each take a walk, a random one, what is the chance they will meet? If n people walk randomly in Manhattan from the Upper East Side going south or west, […]

IPAM is saddened to share the passing of James “Jim” Simons on May 10, 2024. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legend in quantitative investing, and a motivated and generous philanthropist. From 1968 to 1978 he was chair of the math department at Stony Brook University in […]

IPAM is pleased to announce that David Beratan (Duke University) and Thomas Hou (CalTech) were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 30th in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Both Beratan and Hou have participated in several IPAM programs […]