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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,

Dr. Oleg Gleizer appointed as Director of the UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle
Dr. Oleg Gleizer has been selected as the new director of the UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle (ORMC) following a nationwide search. Oleg received

Dr. Yuejiao Sun receives Outstanding Student Paper Award from ICASSP2021
Dr. Yuejiao Sun is an applied math graduate student under the supervision of Prof. Wotao Yin. She recently defended her dissertation. Her paper “An Optimal Stochastic Compositional

“Liggett Teaching Awards” established in honor of Professor Emeritus Thomas M. Liggett
A proud supporter and distinguished member of the UCLA family, Christina Liggett has established a $500,000 endowment in honor of her late husband, Professor Emeritus

Professor Deanna Needell accepts position as Executive Director of UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education
The appointment for Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) has been accepted by Professor Deanna Needell, the Dunn Family Endowed

Dr. Courtney Shelley to join Department as first Social Justice/Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar
A new joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, supported by the Division of Physical Sciences, has been created to focus on a