Entries by Zenith Farin

Professor Mason Porter Receives 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition

UCLA Math Professor Mason Porter has been named the recipient of the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, a prestigious honor from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This prize recognizes his outstanding exposition of the mathematical sciences to audiences at all levels and interests, including review articles in networks, complex systems, […]

Professor Andrea Bertozzi Leads New Research Initiative using AI to Classify Data

Professor Andrea Bertozzi (Left). Pictured on the right is an image showing an artistic interpretation of the work of Professor Andrea Bertozzi, generated by OpenArt AI system. “Science can be messy. And so can the data collected in the process. When the data has repeats, overlaps, or isn’t directly tied to an on-the-ground measurement, standard […]

Professor Zhouli Xu Awarded 2025-26 AMS Centennial Fellowship

UCLA Mathematics Professor Zhouli Xu has been awarded the 2025-2026 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship. He was selected based on his outstanding research in algebraic topology. His main research interests are classical, motivic and equivariant stable homotopy groups of spheres, with connections and applications to algebraic geometry and geometric topology. “I am deeply honored to receive […]

Professor Igor Pak, UCLA PhD Candidate Nikita Gladkov, and MIT PhD Candidiate Aleksandr Zimin Debunk the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’

Photo Credit: Quanta Magazine, Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked. “Hollom found a counterexample to this version of the conjecture. He created a small hypergraph whose edges each connected three vertices.“ A research team consisting of Professor Igor Pak, UCLA PhD Candidate Nikita Gladkov, and MIT PhD Candidate Aleksandr Zimin have proven the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ […]

Professor Ernest Ryu Awarded 2024 Young Researchers Prize

UCLA Math Professor Ernest Ryu was awarded the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers. This prestigious award was established in 1998 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to young researchers for an outstanding paper in optimization. Specifically, the award recognizes the paper entitled “Uniqueness of DRS as the 2 operator […]

Professor Igor Pak Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study

Professor Igor Pak was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024-2025 academic year, alongside fellow Professor Gabriel Greenberg from UCLA Philosophy. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for […]

Professor Deanna Needell Named As 2024 SIAM Fellow

UCLA Math Professor Deanna Needell has been named as one of the Class of 2024 Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows. Members around the world were nominated in recognition of their outstanding research dedicated to the advancement of applied mathematics, computational science, and data science. The SIAM Fellows are crucial members of the […]

UCLA Putnam Teams ranks #23

In the 2023 Putnam Mathematical Competition, the UCLA team were ranked #23. Listed below are the students who ranked in the top 500, listed alphabetically by first name: Akash Madiraju Alan Wu Arvin Ding Diana Tolu Ethan Peng Gary Song Henry Lindhurst Jason Liu Stephen Kelman Sumith Nalabolu Surya Subbarao Zachary Tu Among the UCLA Team, Jason Liu, Sumith Nalabolu, Diana Tolu […]