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UCLA Putnam Team ranks #4 out of 427 institutions
In the 2021 Putnam Mathematical Competition, the UCLA team (Ciprian Bonciocat, Runze Yu, and Jacob B. Zhang) were ranked #4 out of 427 institutions. Individually,
Professor Guido Montúfar awarded 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
UCLA Mathematics and Statistics Assistant Professor Guido Montúfar was awarded the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship. Eight UCLA professors were selected among 118 scientists and scholars,
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