RIPS Students Win Awards at JMM 2019

Posted on 1/24/19 in News
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Edgar Robles, Fatima Zaidouni

IPAM’s 2018 RIPS and GRIPS alumni were well represented at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings.  A total of seventeen student researchers from the Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Sendai programs attended the conference in Baltimore, Maryland on January 16-18, 2019; they presented 7 posters and gave 7 talks.  Many of the poster presentations were honored with the “Outstanding Poster Award” at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session.  Those teams recognized were AECOM represented by Owen Levin, The Aerospace Corporation represented by Julie Zhang and Marvin Pena, Air Force Research Lab represented by Colleen Chan, Gal Dimand, and Aaron George, Google represented by Edgar Robles and Fatima Zaidouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory represented by Bernardo Hernandez and Amanda McAdams, and RealAI represented by Katherine Thai.  Nearly 400 posters were presented during the session.  Congratulations to the 2018 RIPS participants on your exceptional hard work!