US Suspends Federal Grants to UCLA, Impacting Research and IPAM Funding
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Summary
Terence Tao discusses the US administration's suspension of federal grants to UCLA, including his own, citing alleged failures to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias. He highlights the lack of due process and the severe impact on research funding, particularly for the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), which faces imminent operational challenges.
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This unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature.
A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), which now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted.
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