Entries by Zenith Farin

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, […]

Professor Stanley Osher Exceeds 150,000 Citations on Google Scholar

Professor Stanley Osher reached an incredible milestone in his career, having hit over 150,000 citations on Google Scholar last week.    Osher has been cited 150057 times since 1988 with an h-index of 130, making him the third highest cited researcher in the history of UCLA. For those who may not know, the h-index is the […]

Professors Rowan Killip and Monica Visan receive the
2023 Frontiers of Science Award

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 awarded Sony Faculty Innovation Award

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 […]

UCLA Researchers, including Professor Andrea Bertozzi, receive $1 million NSF grant to develop quantum sensors

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 Awarded ‘Best Student Paper’ at SPIE DCS 2023 Conference

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, […]