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Newsletter Latmath Conferences to Promote Role Models for Young Latinx Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics a National Science Foundation Math Institute ANNUAL at the University of California, Los Angeles FALL 2019 SPEARHEADINGNEWSLETTER LATMATH CONFERENCES TO PROMOTE ROLE MODELS FOR YOUNG LATINX As an aspiring mathematical scientist in Mathematics. While Toro started her But even as she was experiencing so much growing up in Colombia, Tatiana Toro career focusing on geometric measure success, Toro became concerned that had plenty of role models who looked like theory, today she considers her research many young Latinx weren’t getting the her. “I was unaware of the color of my skin to lie at the interface of geometric measure encouragement they needed to pursue until I came to the United States for theory, partial differential equations, and careers in the mathematical sciences. graduate school at age 23,” Toro says, harmonic analysis, with a focus on the laughing. “But once I was here, I learned that properties of interfaces arising in “noisy” it is a very different experience for a Latina minimization problems. born in the United States who has an interest in mathematics.” Along the way Toro has received considerable recognition and support for Toro excelled in her chosen field early on, her work, including an Alfred P. Sloan competing for her native country in the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, an International Mathematical Olympiad NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral in 1981, when she was 17. After earning Research Fellowship, two Simons Foundation her bachelor’s degree in Colombia, she Fellowships and a Guggenheim Foundation enrolled at Stanford University, graduating Fellowship. She was elected as a fellow of the with her PhD in 1992. Four years later American Mathematical Society in 2017, she joined the University of Washington and was inducted the same year as a member faculty, where she is currently the Craig of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Tatiana Toro McKibben & Sarah Merner Professor Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. University of Washington (continued on page 7) INDUSTRIAL SHORT COURSE SERIES INAUGURATED In an era of rapid technological progress, (NTU). With two successful courses in the artificial intelligence (AI) can be found last year, IPAM Deputy Director Christian integrated in our everyday lives and at Ratsch is looking forward to what’s next: the forefront of industrial applications. “The goal of this program is to strengthen IPAM hosted a second Industrial Short our ties to industrial partners and to Course on Deep Learning and the Latest advertise and promote the usefulness of AI Algorithms on May 16-17, 2019. A mathematics in industry. We have received cohort of industry professionals from all encouraging feedback and plan to expand career levels spent two days exploring and this program to include other topics in the coding the latest deep learning algorithms, future.” Check back on IPAM’s website for integrating applications of deep learning information on our 2020 course offerings. into their projects, and upgrading their AI With a class limit of 20 participants, early skillset. Participants were taught by leading registration is highly encouraged. n Xavier Bresson deep learning researcher Xavier Bresson NTU from Nanyang Technological University FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS INFORMATION Machine Learning at IPAM 2 Director’s Note 2 Upcoming Programs 6 Geoscience Graduate Student 3 News Stories 4 Call for Proposals 6 Autonomous Vehicles Program 8 Donor Recognition 5 Mark Your Calendars 6 NOTE FROM DIRECTOR DIMA SHLYAKHTENKO This has been an incredibly successful and busy site at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences I would like to thank Stacey for her 13 years year for IPAM, a testimony to its well-deserved at the National University of Singapore. This of extraordinary service at IPAM, and wish reputation as the place for mathematical undergraduate offering complements our her all the best in her new endeavors. And innovation. Our Fall 2018 Big Data Meets existing RIPS program at UCLA, as well as two I would like to welcome back to IPAM our Large-Scale Computing long program explored graduate RIPS programs in Sendai, Japan and new Assistant Director Tammy Wong, who the latest directions of and mathematical Berlin, Germany. previously served on our program coordinator techniques in scientific computing, including staff. Tammy brings to IPAM her management Last fall, IPAM inaugurated its Industry Short new trends such as AI, in-situ data processing, experience with large NSF-funded programs Course program, a new activity aimed at and forward-looking computer architectures. at UCLA. I am also pleased to announce that strengthening our industry partnerships, with a The Spring 2019 Geometry and Learning in Stacy Orozco has accepted a new role at IPAM second course offered in the spring. Stay tuned 3D and Beyond long program explored the as Senior Program Manager with a portfolio for more exciting offerings from this program! of responsibilities that include IPAM’s social latest techniques in machine learning for three- media and outreach activities. n dimensional and higher-dimensional data. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to IPAM’s many sponsors for their In addition to these programs, we offered generous contributions to our Institute. Thanks seven scientific workshops on topics ranging to a repeat $100K gift from AMD and other from Hilbert's 13th problem to Autonomous contributions by our donors, IPAM’s Director’s Vehicles, to Materials for Quantum Computing, Endowment Fund has now surpassed the to Gravitational Waves. Two of these $500K mark. Proceeds from this endowment workshops, focusing on Mathematical Biology will allow IPAM to pursue potential high- and on Public Policy, were specifically designed reward activities that would not otherwise to address the issue of under-representation of be possible. women in mathematics. Last, but not least, I want to share with you One of the highlights of our trendsetting some staff updates: Assistant Director Stacey Research in Industrial Projects for Students Beggs stepped down last winter to pursue Dima Shlyakhtenko IPAM Director (RIPS) program has been its expansion to a new another opportunity on the UCLA campus. HARNESSING THE POWER OF MACHINE LEARNING AT IPAM who integrates knowledge from different Rice University in Houston. disciplines, but of course that means in some sense I am less specialized on those His research has focused on using machine disciplines than people who stay within one learning and artificial intelligence in the field,” Noé says. “IPAM is one of the only natural sciences, particularly physics and chemistry. “It’s only recently that machine places where I can interact with leading learning has been found to be potentially experts in quantum mechanics and in useful for making scientific discoveries,” Noé machine learning, for example, along with explains. “Our goal is, in a sense, to automate physicists and chemists. And hopefully, the knowledge distillation process from the I can contribute by reaching across these data, especially for complex systems.” disciplines to help people connect the dots.” Frank Noé Freie Universität Berlin Noé’s team has worked on molecular systems, After earning a BSc in electrical engineering including simulation and modeling of Frank Noé’s affinity for IPAM comes as in Stuttgart, Germany, Noé worked in an proteins as a path to better understand how no surprise. IPAM brings wide-ranging artificial intelligence startup company certain processes in the body work, or what mathematical techniques to bear on some in Frankfurt. He then moved to Cork, happens when they become dysfunctional, as of the biggest scientific challenges of the day Ireland, where he obtained his MSc in in cancer and other diseases. To understand through programs and workshops that join computer science before returning to these physical building blocks of life, Noé and experts from disciplines that don’t typically Germany to complete a PhD in biophysics his team simulate them in computer models. interact. In many ways, Noé embodies at the University of Heidelberg. Since “Machine learning is key for efficiently that mission. 2007 he has been on the faculty at Freie establishing parameters for simulating how Universität Berlin, where he holds an the particles in these models move in time, Noé is the rare interdisciplinary scientist, interdisciplinary chair in mathematics, as well as finding short-cuts for calculations working at the interface of machine learning, physics and chemistry. He is also an adjunct that would otherwise be untractable,” physics and chemistry. “I am someone professor in the Department of Chemistry at Noé explains. (continued on next page) 2 • IPAM Newsletter Fall 2019 IPAM Newsletter Fall 2019 • 3 IPAM a Key Venue for Interdisciplinary Scientist (continued from page 2) Over the course of the last decade, Noé has participated as a speaker He notes that the vast majority of machine learning applications in and organizer in a number of IPAM workshops and long programs, physics and chemistry have used very simple methods, but there is and with each experience he has come away more convinced of the much untapped potential. Powerful methods have been developed institute’s value in facilitating the cross-disciplinary communication recently with the ability to extract information from complex data in and collaboration needed to make strides on the types of challenging ways that could dramatically advance the natural sciences. “But for scientific issues he tackles.
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