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UCLA Mathematician and predictive modeling team awarded LA County Gold Eagle Award
“Three UCLA professors have been honored with the Los Angeles County’s “Gold Eagle Award” for their service on the county’s COVID-19 predictive modeling team. Team

Dr. Rishi Sonthalia receives Peter Smereka Award for best AIM thesis
Dr. Rishi Sonthalia is a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA under Andrea Bertozzi, Jacob Foster, and Guido Montufar. He has been awarded the Peter Smereka

Professor Deanna Needell named 2022 AMS Fellow
UCLA Professor Deanna Needell joins the Class of 2022 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for her contributions to compressed sensing and the mathematics

Professor Michael Hill Receives 2022 Oswald Veblen Prize
“Michael Hill, Michael Hopkins, and Douglas Ravenel will receive the 2022 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry for their paper “On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one.” This

Professor Andrew Marks invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022
Professor Andrew Marks has been named as an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 6-22, 2022.

Professor Terence Tao named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
“Terence Tao, UCLA professor of mathematics, has been selected by President Joe Biden as one 30 of America’s most-distinguished leaders in science and technology who

Assistant Professor Hong Wang receives New Frontiers Prize
UCLA Mathematics Assistant Professor Hong Wang was awarded the 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize today for her “advances on the restriction conjecture, the local

Professor Marcus Roper’s new paper uses mathematical modeling to understand blood flow to the brain
A paper, published in last week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), by mathematics professor, Marcus Roper (pictured above left), and graduate student, Yujia Qi

Assistant Professor Jiang and UCLA team receive Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design at ICRA 2021
This year, the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) took place from May 30th to June 5th in Xi’an, China. The paper,