Entries by Zenith Farin

Professors Guido Montúfar and Deanna Needell receive NSF AIMing grant

Professors Guido Montúfar and Deanna Needell have received a National Science Foundation grant on Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning. This program (AIMing) supports research at the “interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery”. This grant is a collaboration between Cal Tech, […]

UCLA and Purdue Collaboration to Uncover the Mechanisms behind Memorization in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming part of everyday life, utilized for generating and editing text, recommending content, and recently in exploring mathematical and scientific data. However, AI tools that memorize, that is, store and reproduce outcomes directly seen in their training sets, pose several risks related to security, privacy, and reliability. Through a $1M […]

Monica Visan Named 2026 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer

UCLA Mathematics Professor Monica Visan has been selected to deliver the 45th Emmy Noether Lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Washington, D.C. from January 4–7, 2026. This distinguished lecture was established in 1980 by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to honor the extraordinary contributions of women in the field of mathematical […]

Professor Andrea Bertozzi named Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory

UCLA Mathematics Professor Andrea Bertozzi has been named a 2026 Ulam Scholar at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. As an Ulam Scholar, Bertozzi will be presenting a series of talks on her research during a short-term residency at the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “The Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar […]

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 […]