Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS)
Dates: June 25 - August 25, 2006
Sponsor: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA
Deadline for Applications Due: February 15, 2006

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), a national researchinstitute supported by The National Science Foundation, is now acceptingapplications for its 2006 Summer Program, Research in Industrial Projects forStudents (RIPS). RIPS is a nine-week, intensive residential researchexperience for math, engineering, computer science and physical/life scienceundergraduate students that assigns teams of four students to a projectdesigned by an industrial sponsor. Industrial sponsors provide importantdirection to the students about their project. Students also visit theindustrial site at least once during the summer. Last year’s project sponsorswere: Arete Associates, Inc., The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, LawrenceLivermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Hewlett Packard, Inc.,Microsoft, Inc.,TimeLogic, Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios. The RIPS website at http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rips2006/ gives the full details.

Student participants are selected from an international applicant pool toprovide the broadest possible intellectual and cultural experience to thestudents who participate in our program. Students who have a sufficientbackground for the program are usually rising juniors, seniors or are about tograduate. Further information about the program, financial support, andapplication procedures is available online (see URL above). The RIPS 2006poster is also available online. Please refer appropriate students to thesite and encourage them to apply. For more information on RIPS, please emailrips2006@ipam.ucla.edu or call 310-825-4755.

The application deadline is February 15, 2006.