department awards
faculty awards
Sorgenfrey Distinguished Teaching Award
This award was established in 1996. Professor Sorgenfey was a UCLA faculty member from 1942 through 1978. In 1963, he was the first mathematician to win the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The prize honors faculty for excellence in teaching.
postdoc awards
Awards for Continued Excellence in Teaching
Liggett Instructors Awards
These new awards are supported by The Thomas and Christina Liggett Endowed Scholars Fund to honor the late Professor Emeritus Thomas M. Liggett, for his contributions in research, teaching, and service at UCLA for 51 years.
graduate awards
Balbes Award
This prize was established by Dr. Ray Balbes and his wife Thelma Balbes to support a high-achieving female graduate student.
Edwin and Alice Beckenbach Award
The award was established in 1984 and is named after Professor Edwin Ford Beckenbach, Emeritus Professor. The award is given to a graduate student in their final year so that it may reduce their teaching duties in order to complete their doctoral dissertation.
Girsky Fellowship Award
This award was endowed by Stephen J. Girsky, a UCLA alumnus to support two meritorious academic performance among graduate students.
Horn-Moez Prize
This prize was established by Dr. Ali Amir-Moez and named in honor of his advisor, UCLA professor Alfred Horn. The prize recognizes high academic achievements and superior results on the qualifying exam for first year graduate studies.
Zi Li Lim, David Popovic, and Rushil Raghavan.
Liggett Fellow Award
These prizes were created to recognize outstanding performance among Teaching Assistants. These new awards are supported by The Thomas and Christina Liggett Endowed Scholars Fund to honor the late Professor Emeritus Thomas M. Liggett, for his contributions in research, teaching, and service at UCLA for 51 years.
Raymond Redheffer Prize
This prize was established by Daniel Gutierrez in honor of his professor Raymond Redheffer during his time at UCLA. The award is given to a graduate student teaching assistant who went above and beyond during their time teaching freshman calculus.
UCLA Mathematics Graduate Research Presentation Prize
To support a graduate student who excels in the presentation of original research.
Riley Thornton
Austin Christian
Undergraduate Awards
Basil Gordon Award
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada. This award is to recognize the top scorer among UCLA student competitors.
Jacob Zhang
The Putnam competition was cancelled due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, there is no award recipient this year.
Daus Prize
To recognize the academic accomplishments of a top-ranked student in mathematics at the undergraduate level.
Yuyan He, Mingxin Li, Pengyu Li, Minghao Pan, Sian Wen, and Su Zhou.
Zheyuan (Kevin) Cui, Alexandru Pascadi, Junhong Shen, Zhoutong (Diana) Wu, Yin Lei
Girsky Undergraduate Award
To recognize a top-performing student for high achievement in mathematics.
Anshul Adve
Outstanding Actuarial Science Student Award
To recognize outstanding achievement and exceptional performance in actuarial mathematics.
Eva Gabrielle Pando Mars and Yu-Wei Vincent Yeh.
Erik H. Chen
Outstanding Math/Econ Student Award
To recognize outstanding achievement and exceptional performance in the Mathematics/Economics major.
David Dalton Yu.
Jingyi Li, Claire Nelson, and Jack Krupinski
Putnam Performance Prize
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada. This award is given to UCLA undergraduate participants for their outstanding performance.
The Putnam competition was cancelled due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, there are no award recipients this year.
Sherwood Prize
To recognize overall outstanding achievement and exceptional performance in mathematics at the undergraduate level.
Ciprian-Mircea Bonciocat and Tachin Ruangkriengsin.
Shend Zhjeqi, Joshua Enwright, Samanda (Yuting) Hu, and Richard (Shangjie) Zhang