Professor Andrew Marks invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022

Professor Andrew Marks has been named as an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 6-22, 2022. His interests include descriptive set theory and its connection to computability theory, ergodic theory, and operator algebras.

The ICM is the most influential meeting in pure and applied mathematics as well as one of the world’s oldest scientific congresses. Traditionally, the invited lectures occupy the afternoon portion of the program and are organized into sections. Professor Marks will be giving an invited lecture for the Logic section.

To learn more, visit ICM’s website.

Professor Terence Tao named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

“Terence Tao, UCLA professor of mathematics, has been selected by President Joe Biden as one 30 of America’s most-distinguished leaders in science and technology who will serve on his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The council advises the president “on matters involving policy affecting science, technology, and innovation, as well as on matters involving scientific and technological information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the economy, worker empowerment, education, energy, the environment, public health, national and homeland security, racial equity, and other topics,” the White House said.”

To read the full UCLA Newsroom article, click here.

To read a NYT Magazine article about Terence Tao, click here.

Assistant Professor Hong Wang receives New Frontiers Prize

UCLA Mathematics Assistant Professor Hong Wang was awarded the 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize today for her “advances on the restriction conjecture, the local smoothing conjecture and related problems.”

The Breakthrough Prize, often called the “Oscars of Science,” recognizes the world’s top scientists and mathematicians.

To read the full article, visit the UCLA Newsroom.