Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics awarded $25M renewal from NSF

UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics , through which mathematicians work collaboratively with a broad range of scholars of science and technology to transform the world through math , has received a five-year, $25 million funding renewal from the National Science Foundation, effective Sept. The new award represents the latest investment by the NSF, which has helped to support IPAM's innovative multidisciplinary programs, workshops and other research activities since the institute's founding in 2000. "The continued NSF funding will enable IPAM to further its mission of creating inclusive new scientific communities and to bring the full range of mathematical techniques to bear on the great scientific challenges of our time," said Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, IPAM's director and a UCLA professor of mathematics. "We will be able to continue to sponsor programs that bring together researchers from different scientific disciplines or from different areas of mathematics with the goal of sparking interdisciplinary collaboration that continues long after the IPAM program ends." Mathematics has become increasingly central to science and technology, with applications in areas as diverse as search engines, cryptography, medical imaging, data science and artificial intelligence, to name a few, Shlyakhtenko said. Future developments, from sustainable energy production to autonomous vehicles and quantum computers, will require further mathematical innovation as well as the application of existing mathematics.