UCLA team places as semi-finalist in Case Study Challenge
Team UCLA Bruins placed as a semi-finalist in the 2019 Society of Actuaries Student Research Case Study Challenge. All except one of the undergraduate team members
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Professor Jun Yin and team prove universal pattern that explains why materials conduct
Photo credit: Quanta Magazine/ Shuttershock Last summer, Profs. Jun Yin (UCLA) (and Ph.D. student Fan Yang), Paul Bourgade (New York University) and Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University)
In Memoriam: Veeravalli Seshadri Varadarajan
It is with great regret that the Mathematics Department must note the passing last week, at age 81, of our colleague Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research
Russel Caflisch elected to National Academy of Sciences
Former IPAM Director and UCLA Professor of Mathematics Russel (Russ) Caflisch is one of 100 new members to be elected into the National Academy of Sciences in
In Memoriam: Charles Stone
Dr. Charles (Chuck) J. Stone passed away on April 16, 2019. Chuck received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1961 under the direction of Samuel
Recent Ph.D. graduate receives Sacks Prize for best dissertation of the year in logic
Recent UCLA math graduate Danh (Danny) Nguyen Luu has been named the sole winner of the 2018 Sacks Prize by the International Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL). The Sacks
Taking a cue from spider webs, UCLA researchers snag fresh water with vapor capture system
Photo caption: Researchers Abolfazl Sadeghpour, the study’s co-lead author, Hangjie Ji and Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi with their experimental water capture setup. Photo credit: Oszie Tarula/UCLA A key
Professor Stan Osher developed key numerical algorithm used to reconstruct image of black hole
UCLA mathematics professor Stan Osher, Cognitech Inc CEO Leonid Rudin and then PhD student Emad Fatemi, now sadly deceased, created a numerical algorithm that was instrumental in reconstructing
Vote for Roper’s Lab in NSF video competition ending soon
The UCLA Myco-Fluidics Laboratory or “Roper’s Lab,” led by mathematics Professor Marcus Roper, is a semi-finalist in the National Science Foundation (NSF) We Are Mathematics Video Competition. This contest aims to “bring