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The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), founded in 2011, is an American research institute in mathematics at Brown University, funded beginning in 2010 by a grant from the
National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
.


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At the time of its founding, the institute was the eighth of its kind in the nation and the first in
New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the Can ...
. It is located in downtown
Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts ...
in a building it shares with the
Brown University School of Public Health The Brown University School of Public Health is the public health school of Brown University, a private research university in Rhode Island. It is located along the Providence River, down the hill and about a quarter mile from Brown's central ...
. The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), hold numerous events and workshops throughout the year. Workshops range from one day events all the way up to week-long conferences and conventions. A notable ICERM workshop was, "Illustrating Mathematics" (2016), which brought mathematicians and digital artist together.


Directors of ICERM

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Jill Pipher Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) was the president of the American Mathematical Society. She began a two-year term in 2019. She is also the past-president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM, ...
(2011–2016) * Brendan Hassett (2016–present)


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* {{authority control Mathematical institutes Computer science institutes in the United States Research institutes in Rhode Island Brown University National Science Foundation mathematical sciences institutes