Reunion conferences will be held one and two years after each program ends. For the right to house IPAM on the UCLA campus, the Department of Mathematics beat out approximately 20 other competitors. Green and Tadmor emphasized that it was a combination of many factors that clinched the deal for UCLA, including strong support from Chancellor Albert Carnesale, Executive Vice Chancellor Rory Hume, Vice Chancellor for Research Kumar Patel, Mathematics Chair Tony Chan, Provost Brian Copenhaver, deans Roberto Peccei and Frederick Eiserling and Senior Associate Medical School Dean Leonard Rome. There was also the cachet of UCLA's 23 prominent affiliates, comprising all principal math departments in Southern California and 13 national lab and industrial supporters. That was enough to give UCLA the edge.
Failure is always an orphan, but success has many fathers.