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Professors Rowan Killip and Monica Visan were honored with the 2023 Frontiers of Science Award by the International Congress for Basic Science for their paper “KdV is well-posed in H^{-1}” published in the Annals of Mathematics (2019). The ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on July 16th, 2023. […]
Professor Chenfanfu Jiang has been awarded as one of the recipients for the 2022 Sony Faculty Innovation Award. He received the honor for his research on topologically flexible material point methods. “Global research and development at Sony enables us to foster innovative ideas, which could ultimately lead to future technology advancements and company growth.” This […]
Pictured above: Prineha Narang (top left), Andrea Bertozzi (top right), Suzanne Paulson (bottom left) and Sunil Bhave (bottom right). “A team of UCLA researchers has received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Sensing Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems program. The funds will support research on new sensor technologies […]
UCLA Math PhD students James Chapman, Bohan Chen, and Zheng Tan were awarded ‘Best Student Paper’ for the Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XXX workshop at the 2023 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference. Alongside their mentors UCLA Math Professor Andrea Bertozzi, University of Minnesota Professor Jeff Calder, and UCLA PhD graduate Kevin Miller, […]
UCLA Math Alum Ronald Fedkiw ’96 has been named the next Canon Professor in the School of Engineering. Fedkiw received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA under the guidance of Professor Stanley Osher and spent part of his postdoctoral studies at Caltech in Aeronautics before joining the Stanford Computer Science Department faculty in 2000. Fedkiw’s […]
Professor Andrea Bertozzi has been named a 2023 honoree of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society, alongside nine other faculty, for going above and beyond to mentor fellow faculty. The Faculty Mentoring Honor Society recognizes UCLA faculty who have dedicated their time to mentor early and mid-career faculty alongside their other research and academic responsibilities. […]
Professor Terence Tao has been chosen as the 2022 recipient of the Grand Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences. “It is no exaggeration to call him the ‘Mozart of mathematics’ and he managed to go from being a child prodigy (we see him discussing at 10 years old with Paul Erdös, winning a gold medal […]
It is with great sadness to write that Professor Emeritus Paul Roberts passed away on November 17th. He joined the UCLA Mathematics department in 1986 as a joint appointment with the Geophysical Sciences Department after receiving his PhD from Cambridge University in 1954. He joined UCLA as a Chair in the Math Department and a […]
Through the Applied Mathematics Mentorship Program(AMMP), UCLA students are encouraging young Latino and Black seventh to ninth graders to incorporate math into their communities and real life settings. The program also strives to build confidence in the students to believe in their math skills and that they have the capability to excel in the field […]