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

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September 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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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...

#appliedmathematics #puremathematics #newyear2026

January 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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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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December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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This week, Spring 2026 programming @ipamucla.bsky.social continues with Workshop I on Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Plasma Physics (MFEWS1).

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#puremathematics #appliedmathematics #fusionenergy

March 26, 2026 at 10:37 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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This month, we celebrate Math ∪ Stats Awareness! IPAM is proud to be part of a community that brings together ideas and people across fields.

#PureMathematics #AppliedMathematics #Statistics #StatsAwarenessMonth #MathAwarenessMonth #STEM.

April 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM

Her Maths Story

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Our contributors' mathematical backgrounds range from #PureMathematics to #AppliedSciences including #MathematicalBiology. These stories and blogs by amazing women also encompass their wide-ranging mathematical careers from penning #MathematicalPoetries to working in #QuantumScience. 2/8

December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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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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October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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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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October 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

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Happy first day of spring 🌿

As Sofia Kovalevskaya reminds us, it is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Here’s to a season of fresh ideas, collaboration, and creativity in the mathematical sciences.

#puremathematics #appliedmathematics #spring

March 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM

Alexander Kasprzyk

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Delighted to have a copy of " #MachineLearning in #PureMathematics and #TheoreticalPhysics ", edited by Yang-Hui He and published by World Scientific. This contains my article "Machine Learning the Dimension of a Polytope", joint with Tom Coates and Johannes Hofscheier.
arxiv.org/abs/2207.07717

May 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Nima Rasekh

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At @icerm.bsky.social, @emilyriehl.bsky.social, Jonathan Weinberger, and I are organizing “Teaching Higher Category Theory with Computers,” using #sHoTT + #Rzk to teach ∞-category theory in practice.

Interested? Check this out👇

www.linkedin.com/posts/nimara...

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