Russel Caflisch and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko
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UCLA mathematics professor Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, right, will succeed Russel Caflisch as director of IPAM. Caflisch will be leaving UCLA this summer to become director of New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he earned his Ph.D. and served on the faculty from 1979 to 1989 to join UCLA.