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Professor Yin and team wins Best Student Paper Award on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning
UCLA Mathematics Professor Wotao Yin‘s paper titled, “Hybrid Federated Learning: Algorithms and Implementation,” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 34th Conference on Neural Information

Alumna Aleka McAdams on award winning team for the 2020 Oscars, Scientific and Technical Achievement
Aleka McAdams, an alumna of UCLA Mathematics, is part of the award winning team that accepted a 2020 Oscars for Scientific and Technical Achievement. McAdams and

Professor Khare awarded fellowship from the Simons Foundation
UCLA Mathematics Professor Chandrashekhar Khare has been awarded the 2021 fellowship from the Simons Foundation. “Khare, a fellow of Britain’s Royal Society, is an expert

Assistant Professor Galashin awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship
UCLA Mathematics Assistant Professor Pavel Galashin was awarded the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship today. Four UCLA professors were selected among 128 scientists and scholars from

Undergraduate Town Hall Leads to New Ticketing System for Department
The UCLA Mathematics Undergraduate Student Services office supports over 2,000 math majors and manages 20,000+ general course enrollments. Like many departments at UCLA, they are made up of a small team and are consistently inundated with requests. Managing

Women in Combinatorics and Representation Theory Virtual Workshop – May 2021
This year’s UC Riverside workshop on Diversity and Excellence will be on the topic of “Women in Combinatorics and Representation Theory.” The conference will be

PhD Student Bohan Chen awarded 2021 UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship
UCLA Mathematics PhD student Bohan Chen has been named a UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellow for 2021. Eleven students were nominated across five UC campuses.

In Memoriam: Ronald Miech
UCLA Mathematics Emeritus Professor Ronald Miech recently passed away. Ronald served the Department for 44 years and was instrumental in the history of actuarial mathematics

In Memoriam: Robert Steinberg
I have had a good life (Ik heb een goed leven gehad) The quotation (in English and Dutch) above was exactly how Tonny Springer, a famous mathematician from Utrecht in