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
"Mathletic" Retreat at ICERM
October 11, 2013 - The MET School in Providence worked with their 11th graders on intense math prep work to coach them for their NECAP exam this fall. For the second year in a row, the school held their annual "mathlete retreat" at ICERM as a celebration/stress-reducer/math fun day. ICERM wishes these young "mathletes" (pictured to the right) the best of luck with their NECAP exams!
To Everything Under the Sun, there is an Equation
September 30, 2013 - The seventh in the nine-lecture MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture Series was co-hosted by ICERM and Brown University. (More details) In addition, ConvergenceRI, an online subscription newsletter offering news and analysis at the convergence of health, science, technology and innovation in Rhode Island, published an article about the MPE2013 Simons Foundation public lecture hosted by ICERM on the Brown campus. Read more
Featured Article
September 19, 2013 - ICERM was recently featured in the September 2013 issue of the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society Newsletter, p.45.
ICERM Hosts a Simons Foundation Lecture
September 19, 2013 - Mathematics of Planet Earth: A public lecture: "I think mathematics is the only language we really know that quantifies phenomena," says L. Mahadevan, professor of applied mathematics, physics, and biology at Harvard. Mahadevan will deliver a public lecture on the mathematics of the natural world - part of a celebratory worldwide lecture series - at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in the Salomon Center for Teaching at Brown University. Proudly hosted by ICERM and sponsored by the Simons Foundation.