Congratulations to Freddie Manners on receiving the prestigious European Congress of Mathematics (EMS) Prize for "his remarkable contributions to additive combinatorics and related areas, in particular to the foundations of higher-order Fourier analysis, as well as for miscellaneous other results such as the solution of the pyjama problem."

You can read more about the prizes on the EMS website.

Congratulations to Professors Bennett Chow and Cristian Popescu, and Visiting Scholar Andreas Wieser on becoming members of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for 2024-25.  This prestigious fellowship recognizes the significance of these scholars' work, and it is an opportunity to advance their research and exchange ideas with scholars from around the world.

Among the recipients of the inaugural School of Physical Sciences Staff Awards were three staff from Mathematics:  

Kyung Brown - received the Outstanding Leadership award (for staff that performed above and beyond what was expected while navigating their team through a complex project)

Cassidy Harris and Milagro Mariona-Cruz - were separately honored as Best Team Contributor (for working collaboratively to accomplish key departmental goals/objectives; working with others to achieve cost savings or process improvements)

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishment of Kyung, Cassidy and Milagro!

The Mathematics department is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-24 TA Awards

• Soumya Ganguly - noted for the overall outstanding quality of his teaching and exceptional sense of responsibility, both inside and outside the classroom.
• JJ Garzella -  commended for his work ethic and leadership in Math 100A, and for his initiative and dedication in the organization of a reading course on commutative algebra
• Gregory Patchell - praised for his command over the course material in the Math 180 sequence and his ability to communicate ideas at any level of sophistication that is demanded from students.

Please join us in celebrating this year's awardees!

Brian Kha Tran has been announced as the School of Physical Sciences recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal.  This award, established in Spring 2013, recognizes exceptional doctoral research.  Recipients of this award are chosen based upon the quality of academic research as determined by the impact of the research to the field and/or department; the insight, originality and creativity shown by the author; the effectiveness of the writing, clarity and organization of the thesis; and the soundness of the methodology and quality of the data.

Brian's dissertation was "Geometric Variational Integrators for Multisymplectic PDEs and Adjoint Systems."  His doctoral advisor was Professor Melvin Leok.

The campaigns for Summer 2024 undergraduate employment are now open through the end of May. 

The Reader/Grader Campaign can be found HERE. 

The Group Session Tutor Campaign can be found HERE. 

Congratulations to Fan Chung, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Paul Erdos Professor in Combinatorics, on her election to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).  Professor Chung Graham joins a body of 2,617 active scientists who were elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS, established by an Act of Congress signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community

Thursday, May 2nd

• 2:00pm -  Linghao Zhang  (APM  7321)

  • Polynomial Optimization Over Units of Sets

Tuesday, May 7th

• 1:00pm - Jared Hughes (Zoom)

  • 3XOR Game Threshold

Thursday, May 9th 

• 9:30am -  Siyuan Zheng (APM 6402)

  • Algebraic Stack and its Connections with Markoff Triples

• 3:00pm - Eugene Chiou (Zoom)

  • Finding Gaussian Binomial Identities with Integer Partitions

Tuesday, May 21st

• 3:00pm - Jack Chou (APM 6402)

  • Constructing Maximal Pipedreams of Double Grothendieck Polynomials

• 4:00pm - Xiao Feng (APM 6402)

  • Quantum Computing

Thursday, May 23rd

• 3:00pm - Thomas Allen (HSS 4025)

  • Higher Dimensional Representation and Character Varieties of the Fundamental Group of a Surface

Thursday, May 30th

• 2:00pm - Haocong Li (APM 7321)
  • Recent Progress on the Erdos-Rogers Function with Combinatorial, Finite Geometric and Probabilistic Tools

• 3:00pm - Yongce Li (HSS 4025)

  • Strong Consistency of Spectral Clustering with
    Combinatorial Laplacian in Binary Symmetric m-uniform

    Hypergraph Stochastic Block Model

Professors Peter Ebenfelt and Natalia Komarova are among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific organizations.

Peter Ebenfelt is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He has served as chair of the Department of Mathematics and as associate dean for research in the School of Physical Sciences. He is currently the school’s associate dean for faculty advancement and success. Ebenfelt’s research is in complex analysis, complex geometry and partial differential equations.

Natalia Komarova joined UC San Diego as professor of mathematics and a Dean’s Scholar in 2024. Komarova’s research interests lie at the interface between mathematical and life sciences. She believes that fascinating natural phenomena can be translated into interesting mathematical problems. Evolutionary dynamics is a theme that unites the different areas of application, which include cancer modeling, virus dynamics and language evolution. 

Congratulations to Tianyi Zheng for being awarded the prestigious 2024 Rollo Davidson Prize for her profound contributions and resolution of long-standing conjectures regarding random walks on groups.  

The Rollo Davidson Prize, established in memory of Rollo Davidson (1944-1970), has been annually recognizing young probabilists since 1976. The prize is awarded on the basis of nominations generated by the Rollo Davidson Trustees.  The Trust was founded in 1975 in memory of Rollo Davidson, an accomplished mathematician of remarkable potential, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died on the Piz Bernina in 1970.  Initial funding from the Trust came from the royalties of two collections of papers published in 1973/74 by friends and colleagues of Rollo, and it has benefited from the continuing association with the Davidson family.