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April 11, 2014

Prof. Zvezda Stankova and Berkeley Math Circle featured in April edition of "The Monthly"

The April edition of The Monthly features an article on the Berkeley Math Ciricle and its Director, Professor Zvezdelina Stankova. Check out the full article, here

April 1, 2014

Berkeley's Putnam Team Earns Honorable Mention Honors

Congratulations to the UC Berkeley Putnam Competition Team of Indraneel Kasmalkar, Shiyu Li and Qingyun Wu for their Honorable Mention finish in the 2013 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. (The UC Berkeley team finished in 6th place out of 430 teams.) Indraneel Kasmalkar also earned Honorable Mention honors in the individual competition. Other UC Berkeley students finishing in the top 200 (out of 4113 competitors): Justin Ahmann, Benjamin Breen, Weiqiao Han, Shiyu Li, Patrick Lutz, Henry Maltby, Logan Stokols, Qingyun Wu, and Albert Zhang.

Professor Maciej Zworski wins Faculty Mentor Award from Berkeley Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly

Professor Zworski will be honored at the 8th annual Graduate Mentoring Awards Ceremony, on April 15th.

December 5, 2013

Upcoming Free Probability and the Large N Limit IV workshop on March 25-29, 2014

The workshop "Free Probability and the Large N Limit IV" will be held in Evans Hall March 25-29, 2014.

Details are available at  http://www.math.ucla.edu/~shlyakht/styled-4/index.shtml 

Spring Quantitative Reasoning Exam Scheduled for 5-6pm on January 22, 2014 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.

December 3, 2013

2013 Department Newsletter Available

The Fall 2013 issue of the Department of Mathematics newsletter is available here

November 27, 2013

Chern-Simons Research Lectures on December 2nd, 4th, and 6th
These lectures are an exposition of my recent joint work with Braverman-Finkelberg. Cohomology groups of Hilbert schemes of points on the complex plane are known to be a Fock space, that is a representation of Heisenberg algebra. This result is generalized to the moduli spaces of torsion free framed sheaves on the projective plane by Maulik-Okounkov and Schiffmann-Vasserot last year. The cohomology groups are equivariant ones under the natural torus action on moduli spaces. Heisenberg algebra is generalized to the W-algebra of general linear groups.

November 8, 2013

Computer algebra Magma on department Unix servers

The computer algebra Magma has been installed on the department Unix servers beyonce (thin client server) and appsa (high performance computer), thanks to Simons Foundation. Please note that under the license agreement the full (standard) version of Magma will not be available directly to individual users. Here is another agreement condition:

September 25, 2013

The Mathematics Department Commencement will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Auditorium

More information can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/commencement

August 26, 2013

Upcoming Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations Workshop (10/12/13--10/13/13)

Please visit the links below for more information.

For this workshop: http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/workshops/lie-groups-lie-algebras-and-their-representations

For the workshop series: https://sites.google.com/site/lietheory/

August 9, 2013

Fall Quantitative Reasoning Exam

Fall Quantitative Reasoning Exam scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 5:00-6:30 pm 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.

July 29, 2013

New page for enrollment announcements

Enrollment Updates

May 8, 2013

Professor Daniel Tataru selected as a Simons Investigator
Chairman Arthur Ogus writes: "I am pleased to announce that Daniel Tataru has been selected as a Simons Investigator. For more about this program, including a list of recent awardees, see the following link:

May 3, 2013

Congratulations to Department Manager Mary Pepple for winning a 2012-2013 "Excellence in Management Award"
The Berkeley Staff Assembly awards the "Excellence in Management Award" each year. Following is a description of this years theme and award criteria
Graduating PhD student Semyon Dyatlov to receive prestigious Clay Research Fellowship

For more information, see http://www.claymath.org/fas/research_fellows/.

May 1, 2013

Professor James A. Sethian elected to National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Sethian! For more details, see http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to...

March 28, 2013

Congratulations to Berkeley's 2012 Putnam Competition Top Finishers!
Congratulations to Justin Ahmann, Dawei Ding, Yan Duan, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Woojin Kim, Shiyu Li, and Zhang Yuming for finishing in the top 200 (out of 4,277 contestants) in the 2012 Putnam Mathematical Competition held on December 1st. Special congratulations to Indraneel Kasmalkar for earning Honorable Mention honors.

March 1, 2013

Professor Emeritus Elwyn Berlekamp to deliver public lectures at Harvard (3/23/13) and Stanford (4/5/13)

Flyers for both of these lectures may be found in the "Aditional Files" section of Prof. Berklekamp's departmental webpage:

http://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/elwyn-r-berlekamp

January 14, 2013

The Mathematics Department Commencement will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Zellerbach Auditorium

More information can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/commencement

December 21, 2012

Ian Agol Receives 2013 AMS Veblen Prize
Ian Agol of the University of California, Berkeley, is receiving the 2013 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. The Veblen Prize is given every three years for an outstanding publication in geometry or topology that has appeared in the preceding six years. The prize will be awarded on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.