The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to scroll through its Fall 2006 newsletter. The programs and workshops described below should appeal to the interests and needs of a broad range of researchers and are designed to foster interdisciplinary research between mathematicians and scientists and scholars working in other disciplines. We encourage you to visit our website at http://www.ipam.ucla.edu for more information on individual programs and events. If you are interested in proposing either a 3-month or short program at IPAM, please visit http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/proposals.aspx or contact the Director, Mark Green.
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IPAM Semester Programs:
Each IPAM long program will involve a community of senior and junior researchers. The intent is for long-term participants to have an opportunity to learn about the topic of the program from the perspectives of many different fields and to meet a diverse group of people and have an opportunity to form new collaborations. In addition to these activities, there will be opening tutorials, four workshops (each one is listed under "upcoming workshops"), and a culminating workshop at Lake Arrowhead. Funding is available both to attend our entire 3-month program and to attend individual workshops; those interested are encouraged to apply through the website of the program that interests them.
Securing Cyberspace: Application and Foundations of Cryptography and Computer Security September 11 - December 15, 2006 (in progress) http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sc2006/
Random Shapes March 12 - June 15, 2007 http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rs2007/
Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines. September 10 - December 14, 2007. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/se2007/
Optimal Transport. March 10 - June 13, 2008. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ot2008/
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Upcoming Workshops:
A registration form and an application for funding are available on each program's webpage.
Foundations of secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge and its applications November 13 - 17, 2006 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/scws3/
Special purpose hardware for cryptography: Attacks and Applications December 4 - 8, 2006 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/scws4/
Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networking January 8 - 12, 2007 http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sn2007/
Crime Hot Spots: Behavioral, Computational and Mathematical Models January 29 - February 2, 2007 http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/chs2007/
Small Scales and Extreme Events: The Hurricane February 12 - 16, 2007 http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hu2007/
Topological Quantum Computation February 26 - March 2, 2007 http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/TQC2007/
Random Shapes, Representation Theory, and Conformal Field Theory March 26 - 30, 2007 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rsws1/
Random Curves, Surfaces, and Transport April 16 - 20, 2007 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rsws2/
Random and Dynamic Graphs and Networks May 7 - 11, 2007 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rsws3/
Image Processing for Random Shapes: Applications to Brain Mapping, Geophysics and Astrophysics May 21 - 25, 2007 https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rsws4/
Short Course: Sparse Representations and High Dimensional Geometry -- in conjunction with the AMS 2007 Von Neumann Symposium May 30 - June 1, 2007. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/vn2007/
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2007 Summer Programs
Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS): June 24 - August 24, 2007 Please refer exceptional undergraduate students of mathematics, engineering, computer science, and physical and life science disciplines to http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rips2007/ for information on this unique summer program. Last year's project sponsors included Arete, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, Pixar, JPL, Lawrence-Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs, NASA Goddard, and TimeLogic. Students will be in-residence at UCLA for nine weeks.
**A RIPS program in Beijing, China, in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, will run concurrently. U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply through IPAM (Chinese nationals may apply through MSRA). Students indicate their interest in the Beijing program on the RIPS application.**
Juniors and graduating seniors are especially encouraged to apply. The selection process is highly competitive. An application will be available online and are due February 15.
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Graduate Summer School 2007 Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind July 9 - 27, 2007 Please refer graduate students and post-doc fellows to http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/gss2007/. An application will be available online.
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Please visit our website for more information on our programs. http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/
Last updated 1 November, 2006