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UCLA Department of Mathematics
It is with great regret that the Mathematics Department must note the passing, at age 84, of our colleague Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor Edward Effros on December 21, 2019. Below is a tribute written by his colleagues and friends Sorin Popa and Dima Shlyakhtenko: Edward Effros (Dec. 10, 1935 – Dec. 21, 2019) was a professor […]
Using population-level mobility models, UCLA mathematics professor Mason Porter and his collaborators investigated customer mobility flow between supermarket zones. Previously, similar types of models have been used on much larger spatial scales, such as intracity and intercountry scales. This case study of human mobility on small spatial scales gives insight both into how customers move in supermarkets and into how retailers […]
UCLA mathematics alumnus and professor of mathematics (University of Maryland) Jacob Bedrossian has been selected to receive the first Peter Lax Award for his achievements in mathematical theory of fluid dynamics. Jacob received his PhD from the UCLA Department of Mathematics in 2011, under the supervision of Joseph Teran. In honor of Lax’s seminal contributions to the […]
Professor Terence Tao will be awarded the 2020 Riemann Prize in Mathematics, established this year by Italy’s Riemann International School of Mathematics, which promotes fundamental mathematical research and education. The prize will be awarded every three years to an outstanding mathematician selected by an international committee. “The prize has the patronage of all public and […]
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University reports a 3.7% acceptance rate for its highly competitive Radcliffe’s Fellowship Program. UCLA statistics, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and mathematics assistant professor Alyson Fletcher was selected as the Helen Putnam Fellow for the 2019-2020 class. With more than 50 men and women, the incoming class fellows […]
Two UCLA mathematics professors have been named 2020 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Peter Petersen has been selected for “contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis,” and Romyar T. Sharifi for “contributions to number theory and service to the mathematical community, particularly graduate education.” The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made […]
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of publication of Professor Masamichi Takesaki’s Springe Lecture Notes volume, “Tomita’s theory of modular Hilbert algebras and its applications.” Tomita–Takesaki theory is a method for constructing modular automorphisms of von Neumann algebras from the polar decomposition of a certain involution. It is essential for the theory of type III factors, and […]
UCLA mathematics PhD student Michelle Feng has been selected for the prestigious James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The fellowship is part of the Understanding Dynamic and Multi-Scale Systems program, which supports scholarship and research directed toward the discovery and refinement of theoretical and mathematical tools contributing to the continued development of […]
Last week, UCLA mathematics postdocs Claudia Falcon and Hangjie Ji and PhD student Yonatan Dukler were featured in the YouTube episode, “Most People Don’t Know Wine Moves Like This” by the PBS Digital Studios channel, Physics Girl. With currently over 190,000 views and 13,000 likes, the video focuses on research from their recent paper, “A theory for undercompressive shocks in […]