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.
Mason Porter
Heather Dallas
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.
Casey Johnson, Jose Yanez Etcheberry, Sarah Burnett, and Wern Yeen Yeong.
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.
Olha Shevchenko
Ariana Chin
Grace Li
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.
Zi Li Lim
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.
Joseph Kalarickal, Khang Nguyen, and Yifan Gu.
Elias Manuelides, Harahm Park, and Ian Shors.
Evan Davis, Griffin Pinney, and Spencer Martin.
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.
Hunter Liu, William Chang, Zach Baugher, and Zerrin Vural.
Nicholas Hu, Victoria Kala, Jack Mauro, and Griffin Pinney.
Raymond Chu, Luna Gonzalez, Jason Schuchardt, and Zachary Smith.
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.
Thomas Martinez and Reid Johnson.
Olha Shevchenko and Victoria Quijano.
UCLA Mathematics Graduate Research Presentation Prize
To support a graduate student who excels in the presentation of original research.
Nicholas Hu
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.
Sachin Sahay
Jason Liu, Sumith Nalabolu, and Diana Tolu.
Zachary Tu
Jacob Zhang
The Putnam competition was cancelled due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, there is no award recipient this year.
Baumgarten Award
Awarded to excelling undergraduate students with any major declared in the math department. This award is made possible by the Susan Elizabeth Baumgarten Math Endowed Student Award, established by Sue Baumgarten to support undergraduate scholarships.
Emily Kim, Judy Zhu, Linyun Liu, and Yuer Tang.
Jane Eunsun Kwak, Kimberly Ngoc Vu, Leila Rose Thompsky, Michelle Fang, Chufei Peng, Katelynn Pi and Melissa Wang.
Laura Teresa Defalco, Xiaofu Ding, Hercy Chen, and Ragini Srinivasan.
Daus Prize
To recognize the academic accomplishments of a top-ranked student in mathematics at the undergraduate level.
Jimmy Hou.
Yifan Gu, Jonathn Chang, Ruibin Lyu and Erin O’Neil.
Jiayu Li, Zheng Tan, Runze Yu, and Frank Tian-Chen Zheng.
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.
Max Simon Steinberg and Hercy Shen.
Anshul Adve
Oda-Abe Undergraduate Scholarship
To recognize outstanding undergraduate students in the department of mathematics.
Angelina Sun and Jingxuan Li.
Megan Young.
Outstanding Actuarial Science Student Award
To recognize outstanding achievement and exceptional performance in actuarial mathematics.
Jake Yu and Jingqi Feng.
Ryan Larson, Shannon Leo, Yanni Bills, Arman Begi, Jingqi Feng and Emily Widjaja.
Arnaud He and Lindsey Jay Parungo.
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.
Fanchu Xu, Michelle Fang, Saunak Sahu, and Xiaoyang Hua.
Zhenye Yang, Kevin Wong, Brianna Xie and Shukai Yin.
Joleen Chiu and Shiyu Ma.
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.
Jordan Lombardi.
Stephen Kelman, Zachary Tu, David Davini and Bernie Luan.
Matthew Koziol, Hunter Yunze Liu, Naji Ammar Sarsam, and Chenxin Shen.
Ciprian-Mircea Bonciocat and Tachin Ruangkriengsin.
Shend Zhjeqi, Joshua Enwright, Samanda (Yuting) Hu, and Richard (Shangjie) Zhang
Susanna W. Tang and Albert Scherm III Centennial Scholarship
To recognize outstanding female students in mathematics at the undergraduate level.
Noa Aharon and Sophia Hatsell.
Sarah Sotoudeh
Madison Camille Kohls, Sarah Nicole Kosic, and Gloria Wu.
Valentine and Hoel Memorial Award
Jiayue Liu and Logan Hyslop.