Congratulations to Juan Meza, member of IPAM’s Board of Trustees since 2009, who was recently elected as Chair-Elect of the Section on Mathematics of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He will serve as Chair in 2013. Dr. Meza is the Dean […]

This report summarizes the Workshop on Future Directions in Mathematics, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)), Basic Science Office. The workshop was held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA on October […]

How many variables do we need to describe macromolecular motion? The answer depends on the time and length scale of interest. By analyzing the geometry of the space defined by long molecular dynamics trajectories of macromolecular systems, we find that different regions of the configurational […]

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is global navigation system consisting of at least twenty-four satellites orbiting in six planes around the earth. GPS is extensively used by both the military and the FAA, with growing applications in civilian markets. The importance of GPS in everyday […]