April 1, 2014 - In the Fall of 2013, ICERM had a semester program on experiental geometry, topology, and dynamics. One of the many projects undertaken during this semester was the study of polygon iterations - geometrically defined maps on the space of polygons.
Summer@ICERM Alum Awarded for Research
March 31, 2014 - Summer@ICERM 2013 alum Zijian Yao and ICERM faculty advisor Sergei Tabachnikov received an "Outstanding Presentation Award" during the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The title of their poster, based on work begun during the Summer@ICERM program, was "Rotation Number of Outer Billiard with Polygonal Invariant Curves."
Two Summer@ICERM Alums Receive Awards at JMM
January 17, 2014 - Francisc Bozgan (UCLA) and Zijian Yao (Brown University) both received "Outstanding Presentation" awards at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Their posters, based on research conducted while attending the 2012 and 2013 Summer@ICERM programs (respectively), were recognized during the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session featuring over 300 presentations. Francisc's poster was titled "Weak Rational Ergodicity of Rank-One Transformations in Infinite Ergodic Theory", and Zijian's poster was titled "Rotation Number of Outer Billiard with Polygonal Invariant Curves."
Jill Pipher to Speak on the Mathematics of Lattice-based Cryptography
January 14, 2014 - Jill Pipher, ICERM Director, delivered the MAA Invited Address at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, January 17, 2014. The title of her talk was "The Mathematics of Lattice-based Cryptography." Read more
Math Helps Model Metamaterials
January 13, 2014 - A research team led by Jan S Hesthaven (ICERM Deputy Director Emeritus) from École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a computational approach that helps model metamaterials. Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that are not normally found in nature. Typical examples include cloaking materials that can render a person or an aircraft completely invisible to detection. In addition, metamaterials are being explored in a number of cutting-edge technologies including perfect lenses, antennas and terahertz devices. As the field grows, it is becoming increasingly necessary to model metamaterials, which is a difficult task considering their unconventional nature and delicate properties. Read more from the Science World Report