The Color of Birds

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February 17, 2016 - ICERM was pleased to host Dr. Rodolfo Torres for a public lecture on "The Beautifully Mathematically Ordered Color of Birds". The event drew people of all ages from the general and Brown community.

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ICERM Featured in "Notices of the AMS"

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February 6, 2016 - ICERM was pleased to be featured in the Communications section of the February 2016 issue of the "Notices of the AMS". The article features details about ICERM programs, ranging from faculty and student research programs to our week-long day camp for high school girls. Check it out!

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Congratulations to 2015 Summer@ICERM students

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January 11, 2016 - January 22, 2016 - Chang He and Frank Yang were recognized at the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meeting with the "Outstanding Presentation" Award for their poster based on research conducted during Summer@ICERM 2015. Their winning poster, "Mixing Time in Robotic Explorations" (link to PDF of poster I will email) came about under the direction of Professor Yuliy Baryshnikov and Professor Maxim Arnold, the faculty organizers for ICERM's summer undergraduate research program.

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$17.5M NSF grant continues ICERM for five years

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September 22, 2015 - ICERM is pleased to announce that its $17.5M NSF grant has been renewed for the next five years! "ICERM's initial challenge lay in demonstrating, through its programs and activities, that its mission was both compelling and broad in scope," said Jill Pipher, ICERM's founding director. "I think we have more than met that challenge with a wide variety of cutting-edge research programs, and we're very pleased that NSF has validated our mission, our accomplishments, and our future vision with this continuing grant." Read our press release for all the details.

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In the News: ICERM Directors and Brown Faculty

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September 18, 2015 - Quanta Magazine recently published "A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption," an article featuring ICERM director Jill Pipher, associate director Jeff Hoffstein, and Brown faculty and ICERM program organizer, Joe Silverman.

'In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.'

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