Entries by Zenith Farin

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 […]

Professor Chenfanfu Jiang Receives 2023 Amazon Science Hub Award

UCLA Math Professor Chenfanfu Jiang was honored with the Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence at UCLA award, which recognizes researchers who are studying the societal impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Jiang is being awarded for his project, “Differentiable physics augmented neural radiance fields for real-to-sim and manufacture-ready 3D garment reconstruction”.  Jiang said, “The […]

UCLA PhD Alumna Honored with Two Outstanding Prizes for Dissertation

UCLA Math PhD Alumna ‘23 Abigail Hickok has received two distinguished awards for her dissertation work, under the supervision of Professor Mason Porter. She is the inaugural recipient of the 2024 Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize through the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and a 2024 awardee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) […]

Professors Amit Sahai and Monica Visan named 2024 AMS Fellows

UCLA Professors Amit Sahai and Monica Visan join the Class of 2024 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for their outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics. “It is my pleasure to congratulate and welcome the new class of AMS Fellows, honored for their outstanding contributions to the mathematical sciences and to our profession. […]

Professor Michael Hill named 2024 AWM Fellow

Professor Michael Hill is one of the twelve mathematicians named as the Class of 2024 Association for Women in Mathematics (AMW) Fellows.  He received this honor due to his consistent allyship to all women and nonbinary researchers. Hill’s commitment to inclusivity in the field of mathematics stems from his own work in Spectra, La Matematica, […]