News

John Simons Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship to 168 diverse individuals

April 16, 2019

Principal Investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves Dr. David Jerrison was the only researcher to be awarded the Fellowship in the Mathematics division.

Wavelets and Beyond - A Celebration of Alexandre Grossmann and Yves Meyer

March 7, 2019

Alexandre Grossmann and Yves Meyer contributed to the foundations of wavelet theory and their applications. Join, as we pay a scientific and friendly tribute to the memory of Alexandre Grossmann, who left us on February 12, 2019.

Paris Wave 2019 Highlights

December 10, 2018

Photos and presentations are available for download and viewing, please visit the Paris 2019 Photo and Presentation Gallery for more.

Ad Honorem Yves Meyer

November 26, 2018

Dr. Yves Meyer, a friend and collaborator, has continually made seminal contributions in a number of fields, from number theory to applied mathematics.

University of Minnesota receives federal grant to study disorder in quantum systems

November 6, 2018

University of Minnesota mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and University of California – Santa Barbara materials scientists Jim Speck and Claude Weisbuch—one of only 25 nationwide to receive a grant under NSF’s Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering-Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems.

Researchers receive $8 million to study fundamental science of waves

August 31, 2018

An award of $8 million given from the Simons Foundation to an international collaboration on the Localization of Waves will fund research over the next four years.

The common mathematical structure of noise, diffusion of oxygen and LEDs

July 3, 2018

Dr. Marcel Filoche writes about the three aspects in which different research fields intervene: harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and geometry.

Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs

August 22, 2017

Mathematician and Principal Investigator Dr. Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators are featured in a Quanta Magazine article, highlighting ground-breaking research.

Making Waves

Sir Richard H. Friend discusses back-contact perovskite solar cells

March 12, 2019

Interdigitated back-contact (IBC) architectures are the best performing technology in crystalline Si (c-Si) photovoltaics (PV). Sir Richard Friend discusses this and more.

Sir Richard H. Friend discusses perovskite LED research and development

February 9, 2019

Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge Sir Richard Friend and Dr. Dawei Di discuss recent developments and future prospects of perovskite LED research and development.

Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques October workshop featured physicist Dr. Alain Aspect

November 27, 2018

The first workshop featured a presentation by celebrated French physicist, Alain Aspect, speaking about landmark findings in quantum optics from the 1950s onward.

New efficiency record set for perovskite LEDs

November 5, 2018

Sir Richard Friend's group at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory continue to make waves, now setting a new efficiency record for LEDs.

Dr. Douglas Arnold to speak at Brown University

November 1, 2018

Wave Localization Principal Investigator Dr. Douglas Arnold will be speaking about how the "Mathematics of Computation meets Geometry" at ICERM's "Celebrating 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation" conference.

Alain Aspect: From Einstein to Wheeler

January 1, 2016

Dr. Alain Aspect is featured in the Institute for Quantum Computing's Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture Series in 2014, speaking about wave particle duality for a photon and more.

Interviews with great French physicists on the subject of non-separability