IPAM

Name

IPAM

Legal name

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics

Website

https://ipam.ucla.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Mathematical Sciences Research Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Math Research, Projects & Modeling Programs (EDAMAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Research & Lab-Based Short-Term Programs (Undergraduate/Graduate) (EDAIAIAF)

Keywords

• Mathematical sciences research
• Interdisciplinary research programs
• Academic research workshops
• Student research programs
• Applied mathematics institutes

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. NSF Funding: As an NSF Mathematical Sciences Institute, IPAM receives primary funding from the National Science Foundation to support its mission of fostering mathematical innovation and interdisciplinary research

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

IPAM runs interdisciplinary mathematical research programs including three-month Long Programs, multi-day Workshops, Special Events and Conferences, Summer Schools, and Student Research Programs (RIPS for undergraduates, GRIPS for graduate students, PUMA practicum). Programs bring together researchers from mathematics, science, technology, government, and industry for collaborative research, and are supported with residential facilities, travel funding, and an online archive of recorded lectures.

Product overview

IPAM offers a unified portfolio of research programs and educational services centered around fostering interaction between mathematics and science/technology. The core offerings include Long Programs (3-month collaborative research programs), Workshops (5-day scientific workshops), Special Events and Conferences, Student Research Programs (RIPS/GRIPS for undergraduate and graduate students), Summer Schools, Public Lectures, and the Green Family Lecture Series. Additionally, IPAM provides an online video archive of recorded lectures. These programs are structured to bring together researchers from academia, government, and industry for interdisciplinary collaboration, with residential support and travel funding for participants.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RIPS: Research in Industrial Projects for Students - summer research experience for undergraduate students of math and related disciplines
• GRIPS
• PUMA
• Public Lectures

Products and services

• Long Programs Three-month programs bringing together researchers from mathematics and other disciplines to facilitate collaborative, cross-disciplinary research at IPAM, including opening tutorials, multiple workshops, and a culminating workshop at Lake Arrowhead Conference Center.
• Workshops Five-day workshops on scientific themes (with 20-25 speakers), and exploratory 2-3 day workshops addressing emerging problems or new applications of mathematics; lectures are recorded and posted online.
• Special Events and Conferences Programs including workshops sponsored by government agencies, military research offices, and corporations, as well as events serving underrepresented communities in mathematics.
• Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) Summer research experience for undergraduate students in mathematics and related disciplines. Students work in teams on projects sponsored by industry partners. Offered at Los Angeles and Singapore sites.
• Graduate Research in Industrial Projects for Students (GRIPS) Summer research experience for graduate students working on industry-sponsored projects. Offered at Berlin and Sendai international sites.
• Summer Schools Intensive educational programs for students focusing on specific mathematical topics and research areas.
• Practicum for Undergraduate Mathematicians (PUMA) Program providing practical mathematical research experience for undergraduate students.
• Public Lectures Public lecture series engaging the local community with mathematics-related topics and research presentations.
• Green Family Lecture Series Distinguished lecture series featuring prominent researchers in mathematics and related fields, supported by the Green Family Foundation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Thousands of visitors from academia, government and industry participate annually

Named customers4 records

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost institution providing facilities and administrative support for IPAM programs and operations at UCLA campus.
• Industry Sponsors (RIPS Program)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCompanies that sponsor RIPS (Research in Industrial Projects for Students) projects by providing real-world research problems for student teams to work on during summer programs.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Wolfram Research: Wolfram Research builds computational mathematics tools (Mathematica, Wolfram Language) widely used by the same research community IPAM convenes. While Wolfram is a commercial technology company rather than an academic institute, its products are a parallel enabling asset for applied mathematics researchers, and there is thematic overlap in serving computational/applied mathematics work.

Broad incumbents

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): SIAM is the broader professional society that publishes, conferences, and applies mathematics across industry and academia. While SIAM is much larger and membership-driven, IPAM partners and overlaps with SIAM in serving the applied mathematics community, with shared participants and overlapping topical coverage.
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP): KITP at UC Santa Barbara is an NSF Physics Frontier Center that runs long-duration residency programs and workshops similar in structure to IPAM's Long Programs, but focused on theoretical physics rather than mathematics. KITP is a structurally comparable convening institute with shared program architecture and a similar federal-funding model.

Direct peers

• ICERM (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics): ICERM at Brown University is an NSF Mathematical Sciences Institute running semester-long programs, workshops, and summer schools similar to IPAM. Both are direct peers in the NSF math institute network with comparable program structures and federal funding model.
• Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA): IMA at the University of Minnesota is one of the NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes, running year-long programs, workshops, and summer programs that connect mathematics with science and industry applications. IMA is directly comparable to IPAM in federal funding source, format, and cross-disciplinary convening mission.
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI / SLMath): SLMath (formerly MSRI) at UC Berkeley is the closest peer to IPAM: another NSF Mathematical Sciences Institute that runs multi-month programs, workshops, and graduate summer schools to advance mathematics research and its applications. Both institutes share the same NSF funding mechanism, program structure (long programs, workshops, summer schools), and mission of interdisciplinary mathematics convening, competing for the same pool of researchers, speakers, and student participants.
• American Institute of Mathematics (AIM): AIM is a nonprofit mathematics research institute running structured workshops, SQuaREs (small-group research programs), and research communities - a comparable model to IPAM's workshop and Long Program architecture focused on enabling mathematical research collaboration.
• Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford: ICME at Stanford is a comparable interdisciplinary institute that bridges mathematics, computation, and application domains (including industry-sponsored student projects and workshops). Both institutes pursue industry-academia partnerships in mathematical/computational research, though ICME sits within Stanford rather than being NSF-funded at the same level.

Others

• Simons Foundation / Flatiron Institute: The Simons Foundation is one of IPAM's financial partners (supporting the Simons Participants program) and operates the Flatiron Institute's research centers in computational math, computational astrophysics, and other fields. Simons is both a funder of and adjacent operator to IPAM-style interdisciplinary mathematics research.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCGzuiiLdQZu9wxDNJHO_JnA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/instituteforpureandappliedmathematics
• Instagraminstagram.com/ipamucla

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