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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

In Memoriam – Robert J. Blattner
Robert J. Blattner (1931—2015) The UCLA Department of Mathematics lost a distinguished member of its faculty with the passing away on June 13, 2015, of

In Memoriam: Philip C. Curtis Jr.
The UCLA Department of Mathematics lost a cherished and distinguished member of its faculty with the passing away on December 19, 2016, of Professor Emeritus Philip

In Memoriam: Peter Smereka
UCLA mathematics mourns the sudden untimely death of a colleague and friend, Peter Smereka. Peter was 56 years old and a professor of mathematics at the

In memoriam: Lowell J. Paige, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, 1919 – 2010
Professor Emeritus Lowell J. Paige died on his birthday in Carmichael, Calif., on Dec. 10. He was 91. Paige served as a lieutenant in the

In Memoriam: Lloyd Shapley
UCLA mourns the passing of Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley, 92 Shapley, widely considered a father of game theory, was a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics