February 9, 2015 - Congratulations to ICERM Associate Director Bjorn Sandstede, who has been chosen as the first recipient of Elsevier's Jack K. Hale Award in Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations. More info at: http://www.brown.edu/academics/applied-mathematics/björn-sandstede-jack-hale-award.
Dr. Andrea Bertozzi stepping down as chair of SAB
February 3, 2015 - Dr. Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), the founding chair of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Committee (SAB) will be stepping down at the end of February 2015. ICERM sends her sincere thanks for her four years of dedication and service to the institute.
Dr. Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan) has accepted the Board of Trustee's invitation to assume the position of SAB chair beginning March 1, 2015. Anna has served as an active and engaged member of the SAB, and as chair will play a central role in guiding the scientific direction of the institute.
Dr. Gilbert's research interests include analysis, probability, networking, and algorithms. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Sloan Research Fellowship (2006), an NSF CAREER award (2006), the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2008), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Douglas Engelbart Best Paper award (2008), the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper award (2010), and the SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize (2013).
ICERM Workshop Written Up in SIAM News
November 3, 2014 - Organizers from the July 2014 "Challenges in 21st Century Experimental Mathematical Computation" workshop summarize the participants' findings in an article published in SIAM News.
Children's book written and illustrated by Brown Professor, Rich Schwartz
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.
GirlsGetMath@ICERM!
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