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Professor Fletcher named 2019-2020 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University reports a 3.7% acceptance rate for its highly competitive Radcliffe’s Fellowship Program. UCLA statistics, electrical and

Profs. Peter Petersen and Romyar T. Sharifi named 2020 AMS Fellows
Two UCLA mathematics professors have been named 2020 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Peter Petersen has been selected for “contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric

Conference to Celebrate Fifty Years of the Tomita-Takesaki Theory
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of publication of Professor Masamichi Takesaki’s Springe Lecture Notes volume, “Tomita’s theory of modular Hilbert algebras and its applications.” Tomita–Takesaki theory

PhD student Michelle Feng awarded JSMF’s 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
UCLA mathematics PhD student Michelle Feng has been selected for the prestigious James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The fellowship is part

Postdocs Claudia Falcon and Hangjie Ji featured on YouTube for their “Wine of Tears” research
Last week, UCLA mathematics postdocs Claudia Falcon and Hangjie Ji and PhD student Yonatan Dukler were featured in the YouTube episode, “Most People Don’t Know Wine

Professor Ostrovsky Elected to Academia Europaea
UCLA computer science and mathematics Professor Rafail Ostrovsky has been elected as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea for the class of 2019. Professor Ostrovsky is one of the

Professor Tim Austin receives 2020 New Horizons Prize
UCLA math professor Tim Austin has been awarded the 2020 New Horizons Prize for his “multiple contributions to ergodic theory, most notably the solution of the weak

Los Angeles Math Circle (LAMC) student establishes her own satellite math circles, reaches over 130 students
Aditee Prabhutendolkar attends the Los Angeles Math Circle (LAMC) program, a free enrichment program of the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Now a junior in high school, Aditee is

Professor Andrea Bertozzi awarded the 2019 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize
Every two years, SIAM presents the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize to one individual for “outstanding research, or other contributions, that bridge the gap between mathematics and applications.” This