Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

Are you an Undergraduate student interested in Math?
Apply to RIPS 2026 (Los Angeles)!

🗓️ Application deadline: February 10, 2026
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Apply to our G-RIPS 2026 Programs!

The G-RIPS programs in Sendai and Berlin give graduate students, in mathematics and related fields, the opportunity to work in teams on industry-sponsored research projects in an international setting.

🗓️ Deadline: February 23, 2026
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Apply to RIPS 2026 (Los Angeles)!

The Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program gives undergraduates the chance to work in teams on research projects sponsored by industry and the public sector!

🗓️ Application deadline: February 10, 2026
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Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Dwork! 🎉

IPAM congratulates Dr. Dwork on receiving the 2026 Japan Prize for contributions to ethical digital systems, including differential privacy and algorithmic fairness.

Catch the latest news and updates from IPAM: www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/

Happy Start of the New Year 2026!

Kicking off the year with our New Frontiers in Quantum Algorithms for Open Quantum Systems workshop (Jan 12–16, 2026)!

Learn more: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/wor...

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UCLA Professor and Non-commutative Optimal Transport core participant for the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Wilfrid Gangbo, has received the 2026 Award for Distinguished Public Service by the AMS!

To read more about this award visit our webpage: www.ipam.ucla.edu

Frank Gehry designed IPAM’s home, the Portola Plaza Building, between 1973-1975. His last visit was in January of 2022, when he toured with IPAM directors Dima Shlyakhtenko and Christian Ratsch, who described him as “curious, supportive, and passionate.”
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IPAM is happy to announce that the National Science Foundation has renewed its support for the Institute for five more years, 2025-2030!

Learn more about donations, gifts, and sponsorships of IPAM activities: www.ipam.ucla.edu/support-ipam/

New video series: "Boundary Conditions for Atomistic Simulations in Macroscopic Electrochemical Cells" from IPAM at UCLA. Last week's conference zoomed in on supercell boundary conditions, DFTs, and electrochemical charge transport. Register for upcoming workshops: www.ipam.ucla.edu

Richard Hennig (University of Florida) shares why he keeps coming back to IPAM at UCLA. From attendee to speaker to organizer, he values the cross-disciplinary connections that inspire new ideas.

See upcoming programs: www.ipam.ucla.edu
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QC OG Peter Shor came to IPAM at UCLA for "Math & Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing" in 2023. Researchers: Maria Schuld of Xanadu, Sophia Economou of Virginia Tech, Di Fang from Duke, Lin Lin of UC Berkeley, & Rolando Somma from Google. Check out our upcoming programs: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

This week at IPAM, researchers gathered for Workshop II: Bridging Scales from Atomistic to Continuum in Electrochemical Systems, part of our Fall Long Program on stochastic modeling in electrochemistry.

Explore our upcoming programs: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu
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Don’t forget: Apply to join IPAM at UCLA for Spring 2026!

Long Program: Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy
📅 March 9 – June 12, 2026
Deadline for core participation: October 9, 2025

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Webinar recording: lnkd.in/gBnYAV_2

New lecture series, "Embracing Stochasticity in Electrochemical Modeling" online: www.YouTube.com/IPAMUCLA
The week zoomed in to interactions of dual layers of molecules, special attention to lithium ion batteries. Hongbo Zhao of UC San Diego, began by sharing some kind words about watching IPAM.

Terence Tao highlights how cuts to research funding threaten the nation’s scientific future and risk driving top talent abroad.

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Fall 2025 at IPAM begins with our new long program, Bridging the Gap in Electrochemistry. The program explores stochastic approaches to modeling electrochemical systems, driving innovation in energy and sustainability.
Learn more: lnkd.in/gW4HwQ3t

Apply now to spend Spring 2026 at IPAM, UCLA!
Our long program Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy (Mar 9–Jun 12, 2026) will bring together researchers in plasma physics, data-driven modeling, and fusion design.

Deadline: Oct 9, 2025
Apply: lnkd.in/dhGYzfgK
Info session: lnkd.in/gBnYAV_2

Culture Analytics 2016 asked: What is pretty? How close are colleagues? What are musical emotions, really? Presenters included Tina Eliassi-Rad of Rutgers, Timothy Tangherlini of UCLA, David Crandall of Indiana and Miriam Redi of Yahoo!. Check out upcoming IPAM at UCLA workshops: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

Mark Green of IPAM & Peter Jones of Yale give "Random Shapes" certificates in June 2007. Seen here: Nam-Gyu Kang of CalTech, Maria McGee of Wake Forest, Bertrand Duplantier of U Paris-Saclay, & Carolyn Salafia of Placental Analytics. Check out upcoming IPAM at UCLA workshops at: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

"Autonomous Vehicles" hit a speedbump during COVID-19, but IPAM at UCLA & Benjamin Seibold of Temple still presented five weeks of workshops. Speakers included Aaron Ames of CalTech, Bryant Walker Smith of U South Carolina, and Jana Kosecka of George Mason. New '25-26 workshops: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

Congrats to our G-RIPS Berlin 2025 students! Grad students tackled industry challenges with 1000Shapes, Cray & LBW. Thanks to MODAL for their partnership. More info: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/stu...

Machine Learning - Brunton & LeCun & Noe - Sept. 2019.
Physicists worked with ML in a 12-week program with Steve Brunton, Yann LeCun, and Frank Noe. It inspired new workshops at IPAM at UCLA exploring how natural organization can inform ML algorithms. Check out upcoming workshops: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

IPAM’s RNLA workshop (Aug 11–15, 2025) brought researchers together to advance randomized algorithms, multilinear algebra, and their applications. Thanks to our organizers, project leads, and participants for making it a success.

More: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/spe...

Mays' Landing in Malibu welcomed "Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions" in 2004, maybe the largest program ever at IPAM at UCLA. Speakers included Naoki Saito of UC Davis, Mauro Maggioni of Yale, and David Donoho of Stanford. Learn more about upcoming workshops at: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

IPAM at UCLA's first workshop day was Oct. 11, 2000. Bruce Conklin of UCSF introduced GenMAPP software to connect human gene traits with diseases. Other speakers: Wing Hung Wong of Harvard, Krishnan Nandabalan of Genaissance, Tony Chan of UCLA. IPAM's upcoming workshops: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu

This Week at IPAM: RNLA2025 brings together 4 teams from labs, institutes & universities to tackle challenges in Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra. A week of hands-on problem-solving at @ipamucla. More at www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs.

What was midterms like for RIPS2025LA?
Dakota (team aerospace) & Renee (team google) share the nervous hustle of Midterm Presentations.
9 teams presented 30‑min research updates to peers & advisors—now have 4 weeks to refine before final presentations in August!
Learn more: www.IPAM.UCLA.edu/RIPS

RIPS2025 students are hard at work this summer. With midterms done, all 9 teams are deep in research and collaboration with their sponsors.

Learn more about IPAM’s student research programs:
www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/stu...

New machine learning video series!

IPAM at UCLA hosted "Sampling, Inference, and Data-Driven Physical Modeling in Scientific Machine Learning" last week. Lectures on generative modeling and techniques for inverse/forward problems.

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Alireza Kaviani of @AMD is a longtime RIPS sponsor. Each year, AMD supports a team of undergrads to tackle real industrial research problems over nine weeks. Teams present their findings and submit a final paper. Interested in sponsoring a project? Learn more: www.ipam.ucla.edu/frontiers-so...