August 1, 2014 - A new children's book written and illustrated by Rich Schwartz, a Brown professor and member of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Board, takes readers on a visual journal through the infinite number system. Rich hopes Really Big Numbers will help inspire a love of math in young readers. View more about the book.

July 24, 2014 - Young women from all over Rhode Island gathered at ICERM last week for a summer camp completely devoid of cabins, canoes, and campfires. This camp was all about the math. The weeklong retreat, called GirlsGetMath@ICERM, drew 31 young women entering 10th and 11th grades to the institute. The idea behind the annual program, which was offered for the first time this year, is to nurture an interest in math among young women and keep them on track for math-heavy careers in which women tend to be underrepresented. More information

May 7, 2014 - ICERM was among the presenters at an exhibition sponsored by the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) held on May 7 in Washington, D.C. The exhibition, titled "Investments in STEM Research and Education: Fueling American Innovation," aimed to illustrate the value of the federal investment in basic science research to Members of Congress and their staffs. Jill Pipher (ICERM Director), Homer Walker (Deputy Director), and Ruth Crane (Asst. Director), also had the opportunity to meet with Senator Jack Reed as well as staffers from the offices of Senator Sheldon and Representative Jim Langevin. The trip provided many opportunities to discuss the purpose of the NSF-funded math institutes, and to promote math research to a very broad and interested audience.

April 17, 2014 - The National Blackwell-Tapia Committee is pleased to announce that the 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be awarded to Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver, Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University (visiting George Mason University until May 2014). The prize is awarded every other year in honor of the legacy of David H. Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia, two distinguished mathematical scientists who have been inspirations to more than a generation of African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American students and professionals in the mathematical sciences. Hughes-Oliver has made important contributions in a number of statistical research areas including methodological research on prediction and classification, variable and model selection with dimension reduction, design of experiments, and spatial modeling. She has worked passionately on the cause of increasing diversity of individuals working of the statistical and mathematical sciences. The prize will be presented at the Eighth Blackwell-Tapia Conference, to be held at IPAM on November 14-15, 2014. For more information on the 2014 Blackwell Tapia Conference, go to http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/BTAP2014/