February 10, 2012 - ICERM's Scientific Advisory Board member Juan Meza (Univ. of California, Merced) was named the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011 Chair-Elect of its Section on Mathematics. The AAAS seeks "To advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people. " Congratulations to Dr. Meza!
ICERM's Flies High
January 31, 2012 - Delta Airlines' January 2012 Sky magazine has a profile on "Academic Haven" Rhode Island. One of the main features of the paragraph on Brown is "the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, one of only eight such centers in the country." You can read about ICERM on page 14 of the Delta Sky Magazine, here: http://www.pageturnpro.com/ MSP-Communications/34407-Rhode-Island/index.html#14
ICERM Deputy Director, Jan Hesthaven, Among Speakers at World Economic Forum
January 24, 2012 - Brown University Applied Mathematics Professor and Deputy Director of ICERM, Jan Hesthaven was among four Brown faculty who spoke about the challenges and immense potential of "big data" during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read the Brown Press Release here.
Researchers at ICERM Discuss Challenges in Developing Exascale Computer Architecture that is Energy Efficient
January 23, 2012 - During ICERM's "Synchronization-reducing and Communication-reducing Algorithms and Programming Models for Large-scale Simulations" workshop held in early January, researchers made up of academics, industry, and national research lab leaders discussed the future of supercomputing and the mathematical challenges of creating new algorithms when memory and energy are prohibitively expensive. Read more at InnovationNewsDaily.
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NSF Math Institutes Provide Opportunities for Statistics Community
January 12, 2012 - AMSTATNews recently published an article that stated, among other things, that the "Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at NSF provides support for several institutes, including Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM). These institutes offer a variety of research programs, including short courses and workshops. In 2011-2012, SAMSI has a program on uncertainty quantification and is organizing workshops in January and February. ICERM will offer a workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics in September. The institutes offer programs for graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and junior and senior faculty."