Effective Winter 2022, the department will no longer require students take a Requirement Fulfillment Exam in order to receive equivalent transfer credit for Math 20E.

Go here for complete information on the new petition process.

Congratulations to PhD student Brian Tran, recipient of a 2021-22 ARCS Foundation Fellowship Award!  ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation of San Diego is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization founded and administered by women who support American leadership and aid advancement in science and technology.

Congratulations to Benedict Gross, Professor Emeritus, who, along with colleague Don Zagier are awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award 2021.

Resources & Best Practices for Internship Preparation
October 14, 2021 — 1 PM–2 PM

The Department of Mathematics in collaboration with the Student Success Center will host a Resources & Best Practices for Internship Preparation webinar on October 14, 1:00-2:00 p.m. The panelists will share information on what resources are available and what are the best practices for internship preparation and more! Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance as well as participate in the live Q & A.

Register and submit questions: https://tinyurl.com/5aa7dm4x

Assistant Professor Alex Cloninger is profiled in the UCTV Science Like Me video "Meet a Mathematician with Alex Cloninger".

Three faculty in the mathematics department, Amir Mohammadi, Zhouli Xu, and Tianyi Zheng have been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2022:
https://icm2022.org/plenary-and-special-lectures.
Bin Dong of Beijing University, China, who was a SEW Visiting Assistant Professor at UCSD in 2009-2011 was also invited to speak.

Congratulations to Math Ph.D. student Evangelos “Vaki” Nikitopoulos, recipient of the 2021 Professional / Grad Student Leader Award from the GPSA (Graduate & Professional Student Association). Also receiving an award, as Outstanding Professional / Grad Student Support Staff is Scott Rollans, Director of Student Services.

Congratulations to math faculty Fan Chung Graham and Melvin Leok. They are part of the newly announced institute focused on artificial intelligence and optimization headquartered at UC San Diego. The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS, is funded by a $20 million grant from the NSF. See UCSD News Release.

The UCSD AWM has been awarded the 2021 AWM Student Chapter Award for Professional Development by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in recognition of the success of its program to develop students' professional involvement in mathematics.

Fall 2021 Math Qualifying Exams will take place September 7-10 and 13-15. Register ASAP (no later than Friday, July 16, 2021) at:

https://forms.gle/xMSaK1Y6d3CLwbKa8

For questions, contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu).