The Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program has been held at the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2018, the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) at Tohoku University in Sendai launched the g-RIPS-Sendai program in collaboration with IPAM, targeting graduate-level students in mathematical science and related disciplines.
Participants from the U.S. and Japan will work on cross-cultural teams on research projects designed by industrial partners. The projects are expected to be of great interest to the partners and offer stimulating challenges to students. Most projects will involve both mathematical and computational work.
Information related to programs offered by IPAM can be found at “Student Research Programs.”
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Past G-RIPS and voices of participants are following.
2026.02.18
At the symposium “Approaching the World through the Lens of Causality,” held at the TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity of Tohoku University, previous research on G-RIPS Fujitsu projects were also introduced, and many G-RIPS alumni attended the event.
2025.07.11
G-RIPS alumni participated in the Sharing Event at G-RIPS Sendai 2025 and talked about their experiences from when they joined the program as well as their following career paths.
2025.03.25
G-RIPS Sendai 2024 was featured as a case of collaboration activities with external organizations on “Mitsubishi Electric's Quantum Technology” website.
2025.03.04
Participants who joined G-RIPS Sendai in 2018, 2021, and 2022 as students, academic mentors, and industrial mentors came together to discuss the future of G-RIPS Sendai.
2025.01.08
G-RIPS alumni met in Seattle during the JMM Conference, eating tasty pizza and remembering happy times in Sendai. The meeting helped advance future professional goals as students connected and planned possible collaboration.
2024.11.22
A report on the “Exploring the Feeling of Causality” held at the TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity, Tohoku University on July 26, 2024, has been published on the Fujitsu InspiLab's note.
https://note.com/inspilab/n/nc0781171ea0b (in Japanese)
2024.05.09
An AI agent originating from the 2023 NEC project was one of the finalists of the SCML competition 2024.
2024.04.01
A G-RIPS Sendai 2021 participant from the US has joined one of our industry partners.
2023.10.19
Follow-up work from the G-RIPS Sendai 2021 NEC project has been published in Frontiers.
2023.08.23
Results from the G-RIPS Sendai 2022 NEC project were presented at a minisymposium #621 during the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM2023) in Tokyo.
2023.06.01
Results from the G-RIPS Sendai 2022 Mitsubishi-A project were presented at an invited session IS24 during the M2P (Math 2 Product) 2023 International Conference in Italy.
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