Entries by Zenith Farin

In Memoriam: Hector Fattorini (1938-2025)

It is with great sadness to announce that Professor Emeritus Hector Fattorini passed away on October 20th, 2025.  Hector received his bachelor’s degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires before completing his PhD at NYU in 1965. Hector first joined the UCLA Mathematics Department in 1967 as a Visiting Professor and gradually rose in the […]

Professor Mason Porter named among the world’s most influential researchers

Thirty-nine UCLA faculty members, including UCLA Mathematics Professor Mason Porter, have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences. The annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by international data and analytics firm Clarivate identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their […]

Professor Wilfrid Gangbo Receives 2026 Award for Distinguished Public Service

UCLA Mathematics Professor Wilfrid Gangbo has been awarded the 2026 Award for Distinguished Public Service, presented by the American Mathematical Society. He is being recognized for his efforts to promote the professional careers of mathematicians from underrepresented groups, especially from the African and African-American communities. He will be honored at an Awards Celebration on January […]

Professor Ziyang Gao awarded the Compositio Prize

Professor Ziyang Gao has been awarded the Compositio Prize for the period 2020-2022 for his paper, Generic rank of Betti map and unlikely intersections. Gao will be honored at the Compositio Prize Symposium in Utrecht on Friday, November 14th, 2025.  “The Compositio Prize is a prize awarded every third year by the Foundation Compositio Mathematica […]

Mathematicians, including Professor Jun Yin, Create Physics-Based Model to Understand Random Matrices

Pictured: Mathematicians Horng-Tzer Yau (right) and Jun Yin (left). Harvard Math Professor Horng-Tzer Yau has spent decades studying the interplay of randomness and order in matrices. UCLA Math Professor Jun Yin joined Yau’s group after completing his Ph.D in Physics at Princeton University in 2008. They first tackled the one-dimensional case together, proving that most […]

UCLA Professors Andrea Bertozzi and Anne Andrews Collaborate for DNA Aptamer Design

Pictured from left to right: UCLA Mathematics Professor Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Professor Anne Andrews. “Stress is a silent force impacting human health. In addition to roles in mental health, stress is linked to diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders through chronic inflammation. But while existing stress monitors rely on measurements of […]

Professors Anton Bernshteyn, Rowan Killip, and Monica Visan, invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2026

Professors Anton Bernshteyn, Rowan Killip, and Monica Visan have been named speakers for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 23 to July 30, 2026. Professor Anton Bernshteyn will be presenting for the Logic section. He specializes in descriptive set theory and combinatorics, focusing on their interactions and connections to other fields, such […]