Analogue’s timely support for Terence Tao

In summer 2025, federal funding to UCLA was abruptly suspended mid-cycle, creating an immediate crisis: the university's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) lost access to grants already allocated for ongoing research, including those supporting mathematician Terence Tao's summer salary and his students' stipends. The suspension was tied to campus issues unrelated to research merit—but the timing was devastating. Tao, already having deferred previously released NSF funds to support graduate students, suddenly had no resources for payroll that week.

The Analogue Group recognized the gap and moved the same day. On August 12, 2025, we announced a $50,000 donation to The UCLA Foundation to bridge the immediate funding crisis and ensure Tao's work and his team could continue uninterrupted. It was the kind of responsive, rapid support that exists in the gap between institutional failure and research collapse—and it's precisely the kind of decision The Analogue Group was designed to make.