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December 11, 2018

2018 Department Newsletter Available!

Season’s greetings from the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics!  Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, I’m happy to share our 2018 departmental newsletter with you.   Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year ahead. --Martin Olsson, Professor and Chair

November 19, 2018

Song Sun to receive the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Congratulations!
Song Son, joint with Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, will be awarded the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry for their three-part series, "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III," published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, in which they proved a long-standing conjecture in differential geometry.

August 21, 2018

Semyon Dyatlov won the International Association of Mathematical Physics Early Career Award. Congratulations!
The prize is awarded at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP) in recognition of a single achievement in Mathematical Physics and reserved for scientists whose age in years since birth on July 31 of the year of the Congress is less than 35.

June 29, 2018

In summer 2018, the mathematics department is offering incoming freshmen access to a new online learning tool, ALEKS PPL (www.aleks.com)

Please visit ALEKS Assessment and Learning Tool for more information.

May 29, 2018

Fall 2018 Quantitative Reasoning Exam will be Wed. Aug. 22nd from 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck!

April 18, 2018

James W. Demmel elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations!

For the full list of newly elected members in 2018, please visit: https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c

March 13, 2018

Berkeley Undergraduate Number Theory Conference, April 14-15, 2018

On April 14-15, 2018 we will be hosting a number theory conference for undergraduates.  For more information see the website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/ugconf2018/

March 5, 2018

Conference in honor of Robin Hartshorne, March 23-25, 2018 at the University of Illinois at Chicago

On March 23-25, 2018 a conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in honor of Robin Hartshorne's 80th birthday. For further information see http://kftucker.people.uic.edu/Hart80/

February 20, 2018

Professor Maciej Zworski will receive the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa of Université Paris-Sud" at a ceremony in October 2018. Congratulations to Professor Zworski!

Professor Maciej Zworski will receive the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa of Université Paris-Sud" at a ceremony in October 2018. Congratulations to Professor Zworski!

November 20, 2017

Bernd Sturmfels to receive 2018 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics
AMS: Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley, will receive the 2018 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics for his instrumental role in creating the field of applied algebraic geometry.
Sameera Vemulapalli Named Runner-Up for 2018 Alice T. Schafer Prize
Congratulations to Undergraduate Math and Computer Science Major Sameera Vemulapalli! She has been named Runner-up for the 2018 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics competition.

November 8, 2017

Spring 2018 Quantitative Reasoning Exam will be Wed. Jan. 17th from 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck! 

Note that the QR exam is given only once per semester.

November 6, 2017

Extended Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, November 10-12, 740 Evans Hall
The workshop will take place at UC Berkeley. The lectures will start on Friday, November 10th and end on Sunday, November 12th. The extended seminar will be supported by funds from the University of California and the National Science Foundation.

August 22, 2017

Fall 2017 Quantitative Reasoning Exam will be Wed. Aug. 23rd from 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck!

Note that the QR exam is given only once per semester.

August 11, 2017

Lin Lin received 2017 Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy. Congratulations!
Our faculty member, Lin Lin, has been awarded the 2017 Early Career Research Prize from the Department of Energy. The funding opportunity has been awarded to supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.

April 12, 2017

Vera Serganova elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations!

For the full list of newly elected members in 2017, please visit: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

March 13, 2017

Kathryn Mann won 2016 Mary Ellen Rudin Award. Congratulations!
Our Morrey Assistant Professor Kathryn Mann was selected as the recipient of the 2016 Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award Fund for her deep and extensive work on homeomorphism groups of manifolds.

March 5, 2017

Spring 2017 Chern-Simons Lectures: Ivan Corwin, Columbia University, April 3-7
Prof. Corwin works to unify algebraic structures within mathematics, build bridges between these structures and domains of physics, and discover universal phenomena within these domains. He has uncovered universal distributions (modern day parallels of the bell curve) in models of interface growth, traffic flow, mass transport, turbulence, and shock-fronts.

February 27, 2017

Kenneth Ribet awarded the 2017 Brouwer Medal. Congratulations!
Kenneth Ribet has been awarded the 2017 Brouwer Medal by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG), for his contributions to number theory, in particular for the groundbreaking work in which he applies methods of algebraic geometry to number theoretical problems. The prize is awarded once every three years to a mathematician of international renown. This year, the medal will be delivered at the Dutch Mathematical Congress on April 11, 2017, following his Brouwer lecture.

February 24, 2017

Lin Lin awarded 2017 SIAM CSE Early Career Prize. Congratulations!
Our faculty member, Lin Lin, has been selected as a 2017 SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize winner. The prize will be presented at 2017 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering on March 2, 2017 in Atlanta. According to SIAM, the award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions to computational science and engineering within seven years of receiving the PhD.