Entries by santillanc@math.ucla.edu

Chief Administrative Officer Ronke Epps receives UCLA’s 2021 Distinguished Career Award

The Administrative Management Group (AMG), in partnership with Campus Human Resources honors outstanding managers and staff who have made significant contributions to their organizations and the UCLA campus through their Excellence Awards series. This year, Ronke Epps, chief administrative officer (CAO) of the mathematics department, has been selected as the sole recipient of the 2021 […]

Assistant Professor Pavel Galashin receives National Science Foundation Career Award

UCLA assistant professor of mathematics Pavel Galashin has won the 2021 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. This is one of two early career awards Galashin has recently received, as he was also selected for the prestigious 2021 Sloan Fellowship in February. The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the […]

UCLA Curtis Center joins Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first ever U.S. education Grand Challenge

In today’s classrooms, Algebra 1 currently serves as an obstacle for many students’ success. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first ever U.S. education Grand Challenge, identifies partners to design solutions to make Algebra 1 “more accessible, relevant, and collaborative for students who are Black, Latino, English Learners, and/or experiencing poverty.” The UCLA Curtis Center […]

Register for the Curtis Center’s Annual Mathematics and Teaching Virtual Conference: Saturday, March 6, 2021

The UCLA Curtis Center will be hosting their Annual Mathematics and Teaching Virtual Conference on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 9:00AM-3:00PM. Typically, the conference welcomes over 200 teachers, students, and mathematicians for a day of meaningful discussion about mathematics education as well as some hands-on learning. This year, there will be two keynote speakers covering […]

Professor Yin and team wins Best Student Paper Award on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning

UCLA Mathematics Professor Wotao Yin‘s paper titled, “Hybrid Federated Learning: Algorithms and Implementation,” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-20) Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning. The paper, written in collaborations with researchers from the University of Minnesota and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was published […]

Professor Khare awarded fellowship from the Simons Foundation

UCLA Mathematics Professor Chandrashekhar Khare has been awarded the 2021 fellowship from the Simons Foundation. “Khare, a fellow of Britain’s Royal Society, is an expert on Galois representations and modular forms. He and the late French mathematician Jean-Pierre Wintenberger proved a conjecture that was widely considered unachievable. Khare and Wintenberger were awarded the 2011 Frank […]

Assistant Professor Galashin awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

UCLA Mathematics Assistant Professor Pavel Galashin was awarded the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship today. Four UCLA professors were selected among 128 scientists and scholars from 58 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. “Galashin conducts research in algebraic combinatorics. He is particularly interested in its unexpected applications to other areas of math and […]