Two of our remarkable PhD students have been selected for inclusion in the Student Spotlight section of the Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs website.  Lillian McPherson, a student in algebraic geometry with Elham Izadi and Sawyer Robertson, a student in applied graph theory with Alex Cloninger, were chosen to represent the Math department in this year's Spotlight.  Be sure to check out their profiles, and those of students from across the university, here.

Professor Jeffrey Rabin has been selected as an outstanding mentor in the Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars Program 2024.  The SGTS program has helped hundreds of graduate students prepare for and teach summer courses for undergraduates. This program offers advanced graduate students a valuable opportunity to gain faculty-mentored teaching experience while expanding Summer Session course offerings for undergraduates.  Professor Rabin was commended for both the quality and quantity of student support, and for playing a significant role in his mentee's growth and development as an instructor.

Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Computer Science & Engineering, Fan Chung Graham is one of five recipients of the 2024 Revelle Medal.  Created to honor Roger Revelle and first awarded in 1981, the Revelle Medal honors a record of accomplishment that advances UC San Diego in fulfillment of the campus mission of exceptional teaching, research, service, and is the highest honor given by the chancellor to an emeriti faculty member. 

The inaugural Paul Erdos Chair of Combinatorics, Professor Chung Graham is a researcher in Combinatorics and Graph Theory.  She is the author of more than 240 papers, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Mathematics Society among others.  Professor Chung Graham received the Euler Medal in 2017 and the Allendoerfer Award in 1990 and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorics.

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

The 2024 Honors Presentation will be taking place on Thursday, March 7th.  

• 4:00 PM - Deepansha Singh (APM 5402)
  • Federated Learning and Consensus-Based Optimization Techniques in the Federated Learning Space

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.

Congratulations to Melvin Leok on receiving the George W. and Carol A. Lattimer Research Fellowship. The award is designed to support innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary initiatives to generate new ideas and research areas.

Congratulations to Jacques Verstraete for being selected by the International Congress of Basic Sciences as a recipient of the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics.

Instituted in 2023 under the auspices of the ICBS and sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Application (BIMSA), the FSA recognizes groundbreaking research through recent papers that have made significant breakthroughs in their respective fields. Nominations for the award are open to researchers worldwide, with a panel of esteemed experts reviewing and shortlisting candidates across various research areas. Winners are then selected by a Global Committee appointed by the ICBS. The awardees are invited to accept the honor in person at the ICBS event held in July 2024 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. In 2023, a total of one hundred thirty-two awards were presented across Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, and Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences. For further details, please refer to: https://www.icbs.cn/.

Congratulations to Amir Mohammadi for being honored with the prestigious 2024 Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. Sponsored by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and established in honor of Michael Brin, a retired math professor from the University of Maryland renowned for his work in dynamical systems, this esteemed prize recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field. Notably, the recipient must be within 14 years of receiving their PhD. Since its inception in 2008, the Brin Prize has been awarded biennially until 2017, after which it became an annual event. As of this year, there have been thirteenth recipients of this award, with some past awardees subsequently going on to receive the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors in mathematics. For more information, please visit: https://science.psu.edu/math/research/dynsys/brinprize.

 

The Directed Reading Program in Mathematics pairs undergraduate participants with graduate student mentors to read a selected math text/paper.  It is designed to give undergraduates the ability to explore topics they might not see in the standard curriculum in a fun and stress-free environment.

Aimed at UCSD undergraduate Mathematics majors, the program could be suitable for undergraduates from any major who would like to further explore the field - applicants must have completed (or be in the process of taking) one of the Math 100/200, 220, or 140/240 series.

For more information, please go to the DRP website

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 Carol & George Lattimer Award for Graduate Excellence math major recipient, Hui Tan!

On December 11, 2023, Ruth Williams received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University Of Melbourne, Australia. View list of honorary degree holders here.

Congratulations to Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli on receiving UCLA Chancellor's Award!

Tim Gowers, Ben Green, Freddie Manners and Terry Tao have now solved it over a field of characteristic 2. Congratulations! Read more

During the last fifteen years, the combinatorics group at UCSD has consistently ranked in the top six by the US News and World Report. It is currently ranked No. 5 (up from No. 6) in the 2023 graduate rankings.

Rankings of doctoral programs in the sciences published in 2023 were based solely on the results of surveys sent to academic officials in fall 2022 and early 2023 in chemistry, computer science, earth science, mathematics, and physics. View rankings at US News.

Congratulations to Zhouli Xu as a recent recipient of the Frontiers of Science Awards at the Inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) Conference. Read more.

The Mathematics department is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-23 TA Awards

• David Cavender - commended for his passion for teaching and concern for students as he took an active role in the courses he TA'd
• Varun Khurana -  singled out for his dedication in developing real-world projects for students in Math 102
• Richard Yi - nominated for his compassion, knowledge and organization; making countless worksheets and topic summaries for students in Math 109 and 154 
• Wei Yin - was recommended for his ability to lead students towards a deeper appreciation of the beauty of Algebraic Number Theory

Please join us in celebrating this year's awardees!

Professor Jacques Verstraete and his former postdoc, Sam Matteus recently achieved a significant breakthrough in Ramsey Theory.  Article: Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs.  Congratulations Jacques and Sam!

After review of the many applications, the Graduate Awards Committee congratulates the following three PhD students on being named recipients of the Powell Dissertation Award:

Rusiru Gambheera Arachchige (Advisor: Cristian Popescu)

Shubham Sinha (Advisor: Dragos Oprea)

Brian Tran (Advisor: Melvin Leok)

Bill Helton, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at UCSD, received an honorary Doctor of Science from Chapman University for his contributions to mathematics, specifically in operator theory and functional analysis, and for linking these areas with electrical engineering, optimal control and mathematical physics.

SEW Assistant Professor Aranya Lahiri received the Navy Impact Influencer certificate in recognition of the positive impact he has made on the lives of his students.  Rowan Barg (MAE), a student in the Navy Nuclear Collegiate Program nominated Professor Lahiri based on his teaching methods and unwavering dedication to his students' success.  Congratulations Aranya!

Congratulations to Statistics MS student Teresa Rexin for being honored with the 2023 Outstanding Peer Mentor Award from the UC San Diego Graduate & Professional Student Association.  Part of the Mentorship Committee with the Association for Women in Mathematics, Teresa serves as a source of advice and wisdom to her colleagues.  Her willingness and ability to advise her fellow students on all issues of graduate life has greatly enhanced the experience of students in the Mathematics department.  Teresa will join other GPSA awardees at a ceremony on Thursday, May 18, 2023.

Price: $40

Extended Deadline: Sunday, May 7th at 11:59pm

If you are interested, please fill out the form: https://forms.gle/pB2ZKSN6bYCsBCgDA

• 12:00pm - Fred Rajasekaran (APM 6402)
  • "Fluctuations of Eigenvalues and Concentration Inequalities for Patterned Random Matrices
• 1:00pm - Fuxiang Yang (APM 6402)
  • "Invariant Theory and Group Coaction on Artin-Schelter Regular Algebra"

• 12:00pm - Mingcheng Sheng (APM 6402)
  • Topic: Freiman Problems, Title TBD
• 1:00pm - Rohan Puthukudy (APM 6402)
  • ​​​​​​​"Combinatorial Representation Theory"

• 10:00am - Xun Gong (APM 6402)
  • ​​​​​​​"Monodromy of a Symmetric Surface"

• 10:00am - Winston Yu (via Zoom)
  • "Power of Maximum Mean Discrepancy Tests using Generalized Anisotropic Kernels"
• 2:00pm - Andrew Paul (via Zoom)​​​​​​​
  • Title TBD

The School of Physical Sciences has announced that the Association for Women in Mathematics at UC San Diego has been named a recipient of one of this year's Physical Sciences EDI Excellence Awards.  Re-established in the department in Fall 2019, AWM is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and have active careers in the mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in mathematics.  Congratulations to the members and board of AWM at UCSD.

Two math faculty receive awards!  Leesa Anzaldo and Ming Xiao selected by the Academic Senate Committee on Senate Awards to receive the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award.  Congratulations to you both!  Read more about the award https://senate.ucsd.edu/Grants-Awards/Senate-Awards/distinguished-teaching-award

Congratulations to PhD student Myeonghun Yu (Advisor: Prof. Wenxin Zhou) for being awarded the 2022-23 Richard Libby Graduate Research Award.

The Mathematics advising team will be presenting a series of in-person advising / information sessions this quarter:

"Major Advising" - Friday, April 14th at 10:00am

Learn about the different Undergraduate Math majors and their requirements.

"Reading Your Degree Audit" - Wednesday, May 3rd at 10:00am

Learn how to interpret your Degree Audit, and how running a Degree Audit will show your status in fulfilling Math major requirements.

"Double Majoring" - Friday, Math 19th at 10:00am

Learn tips and tricks on how to submit a successful Double Major Petition for prospective and current Math majors.

Please register at bit.ly/sp23groupplanning.  All presentations will take place in AP&M 7321

Congratulations to PhD student Gregory Patchell for being named one of two Integrity Champions for 2023 by the Research Ethics Program and Academic Integrity Office.  One of the Math department's two Senior TAs, who lead in the training and observation of new Teaching Assistants, Greg is being honored for his volunteer work on academic integrity.  The Integrity Awards celebration will take place April 19th at 5:30pm.  More information can be found here.

For more information: 2023 Simons Fellows in Mathematics Announced.

https://sloan.org/fellowships/2023-Fellows

Jane Street will be hosting an Estimathon on January 30th at 2pm in APM B402A. 

The Estimathon is a mind-bending mixture of math and trivia. In teams, you'll attempt 13 Fermi problems in 30 minutes, ranging from totally trivial to positively Putnamesque. Be prepared to come up with the best set of confidence intervals! Sample problems include:

• How many stop signs are in New York City?
• How many babies were born in 1900?
• How many Social Security Numbers are prime?

Register here by January 26th @ 11:59pm PT. All participants will register as an individual and teams will be created on-site. We will confirm your attendance with the event location by January 27th. 

If you have questions about Double Majoring with Math at UCSD, be sure to attend this Zoom session on Thursday, February 23rd at 11:00am.  Learn some tips and tricks on how to submit a successful Double Major Petitions.  Of interest to both current and potential Math majors.

To attend this Zoom session, please register at bit.ly/wi23groupplanning

Join our advisors on a Zoom session on Thursday, February 9th at 11am to talk about your Degree Audit.  Learn how to interpret your Degree Audit, and see how running an Audit will show your status in fulfilling Math major requirements.

To attend this Zoom session, please register at bit.ly/wi23groupplanning

Please join us on Thursday, January 19th at 9am for Group Advising this Winter - Meet your undergraduate advisors, get your questions answered and learn more about the Math department and our majors and requirements.

To attend, please register for the Zoom session at bit.ly/wi23groupplanning

Visiting Scholar Johannes Brust is featured in a Q&A interview by the UCSD School of Physical Sciences regarding his work on "Matrix Designs for COVID-19 Group Testing" and linear algebra:

https://physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/media-events/articles/2022/linear-algebra.html

https://netscisociety.net/award-prizes/

https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi

https://physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/media-events/articles/2022/mohammadi-amir.html

Join Professor Brendon Seward from the Math Department at the "UCSD Virtual Graduate Recruitment Open House" on Wednesday 11/09/2022 from 1:00pm-2:00pm.

A (belated) congratulations to the Mathematics students receiving the 2022 Undergraduate Excellence Award: Andrew Dennehy, Aidan Epperly, Xun Gong, Natalie Quach, Yunhao Sun, Yihe Tang, Kin Yau James Wong, Junchen Zhao and Yixuan Zhou.  And special commendation to Frederick Rajasekaran, the recipient of the 2022 Selma and Robert Silagi Award.

Please join us for Group Planning Sessions this Fall, where you can meet your Undergraduate Advisors and learn about the following advising topics.

To attend these Zoom sessions, please register at bit.ly/fa22groupplanning

"Double Majoring 101" 

• Thursday, October 13th at 11:00 AM
• Learn tips and tricks on how to submit a successful Double Major Petition

"Course Planning"

• Thursday, November 3rd at 11:00 AM
• Learn how to plan out courses using tools like Planned Course Offerings, your Degree Audit, and the Course Catalog

"Reading Your Degree Audit"

• Thursday, December 1st at 11:00 AM
• Intro to the ins and outs of reading your Degree Audit

Learn More about Associate Professor of Mathematics and 2022 ICM Lecturer Zhouli Xu (ucsd.edu).

Ph.D. student Harish Kannan and a teammate won the first prize in the Great Math Challenges in Biology Contest conducted by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University. Congratulations! 

The Department of Mathematics will be having (remote) orientations for new students in late August:

This will be an opportunity to meet your advisors, learn more about the undergraduate program, and ask questions in a Q and A session. 

Please use the link below to access orientation. 

August 24th at 9am for First-Years (https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/93625016334)

August 26th at 9am for Transfers (https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/99519875576)

https://forms.gle/XVvyUM3nkEiEahjJ7

International Congress of Mathematicians Conference will run July 6 - 14 

Virtual ICM

Fall 2022 Qualifying Exams

• Registration is closed. Please email mathgradadvising@math.ucsd.edu to register.
• Exam dates August 29th - September 9th
• Exams will be in person

Exam dates:

• August 30 - STATISTICS (1 - 4 PM PDT)

• August 31 - COMPLEX (1 - 4 PM PDT)

• September 1 - TOPOLOGY (1 - 4 PM PDT)

• September 2 - APPLIED ALGEBRA (1 - 4 PM PDT)

• September 6 - REAL ANALYSIS (1 - 4 PM PDT)

• September 7 - NUMERICAL (9 AM - 12 PM PDT) 

• September 8 - ALGEBRA (1- 4 PM PDT)

The Mathematics department is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2021-22 TA Awards --

• Tai-Hsuan Chung was praised as a devoted and enthusiastic instructor with a contagious love of mathematics.
• Thomas Grubb was noted as instrumental to the success of Math 157, developing much of the content, methodology and overall tenor of the course.
• Somak Maitra is a 'go-to' TA for entry level mathematics, where his students rave about his commitment to teaching and willingness to help
• Nicholas Sieger was singled out for his clear passion for teaching and his willingness to always 'do more' to help in the running of his courses
• Ji Zeng was commended as being professional, helpful and knowledgeable - with students finding him a more valuable resource than the textbook  

Please join us in celebrating this year's awardees!

Congratulations to PhD student Eva Loeser - recipient of the 2021-22 GPSA Community Award for Peer Mentorship.  This award honors a graduate student at UC San Diego who has proven to be an excellent source of advice and wisdom for their colleagues in graduate school. Eva has shown a strong dedication and ability to advise her fellow graduate students on issues related to academics as well as general life skills, and her efforts towards peer mentorship (particularly as part of the rebirth of the Association for Women in Mathematics) has significantly enhanced the graduate school experience of our students.  Congratulations on the recognition Eva.

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Jiaqi Liu, Jason O'Neill, Samir Canning, and Suhan Zhong have been awarded a 2021-2022 Powell Dissertation Fellowship, which provides funds to support research, and that Zilu Ma, Xiaoou Pan, and Zirui Zhang have been awarded a 2021-2022 Powell Dissertation Award. Congratulations to all of the awardees!

Congratulations to the 2021-22 recipients of the Richard Libby Graduate Research Award

Somak Maitra & Kejin Wu (both advised by Dimitris Politis)

Richard Libby ('80, MA '82, PhD) received his degrees in mathematics at UC San Diego.  His generous contributions support graduate student research in our department in the areas of market analysis, quantitative finance, and related fields.  This includes, but is not limited to, research exploring the measurement, estimation, and implications of extreme events on financial markets and the broader economy with the potential to cause breakdown and systemic risk. The research may also include the extent to which the risks associated with these events can be managed by financial institutions, regulators, and households, along with the possibility of predicting and quantifying the magnitude and frequency of such events.

The Mathematics Honors Presentation Schedule: 

• Wednesday, May 4th
  • 9:00-9:30 AM: Hantao Yu
  • 9:30-10 AM: Junchen Zhao 1
  • :00-1:30 PM: Andrew Dennehy
  • 1:30-2:00 PM: Aidan Epperly
• Friday, May 6th
  • 1:00-1:30 PM: Kin Yau James Wong
  • 1:30-2:00 PM: Shuncheng Yuan
  • 2:00-2:30 PM: Ricardo Arruda

If you are interested in attending, please email k1simmons@ucsd.edu for Zoom information.

When: Monday, May 2nd @ 12:00pm-1:30pm via Zoom OR in person at the Dolores Huerta/Philip Vera Cruz Room
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/gDMkfj8Nvph3H5JfA

In collaboration with the Society of Undergraduate Mathematics Students (SUMS), the Student Success Center is hosting a virtual Math Industry Day with a focus on resume and interview tips! The event will include presentations from three guest speakers about their work in industry and well as their tips for navigating the job search and application process. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance as well as participate in the session’s Q&A. Guest speakers include UCSD alumn, Amanda Horowitz, currently a first year student at Kellogg School of Management, UCSD alumn, Paul de Fusco, currently a Data Services Specialist at Cloudera, and UCSD alumn, Kishan Patel, a Data Analyst at Pacific Specialty Insurance Company.

Where is the Dolores Huerta/Philip Vera Cruz room? You can find a map here. 

Website: https://center.ucsd.edu/student-events/upcoming-events.html#mathevent

Registration form: https://forms.gle/LSq53XB4UE3gyxyQ9

The Society for Undergraduate Mathematics Students (SUMS) will be hosting the Spring 2022 Integration Bee at UCSD! The style of SUMS' Integration Bee will be similar to that of MIT's Integration Bee, where contestants compete to solve integrals as quickly as possible (there is no need to show steps - only the solution counts).

If you would like to participate as a contestant, please fill out the form . We will be using this information to determine the difficulty of the problems.

There will be qualifying exams held throughout Weeks 5-7 of SP22. Depending on the number of contestants, the few top performing students will be selected to take part in the Integration Bee, of which will take place in Week 9 of SP22.

Many of the dates and locations are still in planning, but the academic weeks of when the events will take place are finalized.

If you have any questions before submitting the form, please email us at sums@ucsd.edu.

**This signup form will be open until the end of Week 4 of SP22 (i.e. Sunday 11:59pm of Week 4)**

Real Analysis – May 9
Statistics – May 10
Numerical – May 11
Topology – May 12
Complex Analysis – May 17
Applied Algebra – May 16
Algebra – May 18

MATH 282 Comprehensive exam - April 12 

Questions? Please contact Diana Platero-Lopez (mathgradadvising@math.ucsd.edu)

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Frederick Manners who has received a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. See UCSD News Release.

Congratulations to Professor Adrian Ioana, Professor Melvin Leok, and Associate Professor Rayan Saab who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in Mathematics in 2022 by the Simons Foundation.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Aaron Pollack who has received a NSF CAREER award.

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).

On behalf of the entire Mathematics Department - the Graduate Awards Committee have named four Ph.D. students as the recipients of the 2020-21 Teaching Assistant Award. Please join us in acknowledging the excellence, dedication and hard work of Bochao Kong, Eva Loeser, Alex Mathers, and Alec Todd.

Effective Monday, 5/24/2021, the Mathematics Department majors are no longer Capped.

Continuing students may use the TritonLink Major/Minor Tool online to change their major department to Mathematics. No additional screening will be required.

Incoming students may use the TritonLink Major/Minor Tool online to change their major department to Mathematics as soon as they are registered and enrolled for Fall 2021 courses.

Professor James McKernan received a 5-year extension to his Simons Foundation grant.

Professor Ery-Arias Castro has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) for "fundamental contributions to nonparametric statistics including clustering, graphs and networks, sparse estimation, and statistical learning; and for extensive editorial service."

Professor Jiawang Nie has been awarded the 14th Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing for significant contributions to "Polynomial optimization, convex algebraic geometry and tensor computation." A ceremony will be held at the General Assembly of the China Society for Computational Mathematics in Nanjing, China from August 15–19, 2021. 

(Contact math-advising-g@ucsd.edu for Zoom links.)

Friday, April 30th

• 3:30pm - Tomoki Oda
  — "ADE Classification of Invariants, Singularities and Groups"

Monday, May 3rd

• 2:00pm - Austin Du
  — "Estimating Quadratically Regularized Wasserstein Distance on k-Connected Graphs"
• 2:30pm - Brian Chao
  — "A spatial mutation model with increasing mutation rates"
• 3:30pm - William Tran
  — "Closed Random Walks on Lattices and Generalization of the Catalan Numbers"

Wednesday, May 5th

• 1:00pm - Huanxi Liu
  — "An Evaluation of Hyperparameter Tuning Methods in SVM"
• 1:30pm - Erding Liao
  — "An Investigation on Modification of Hidden Markov Model with Partially Missing Observations"
• 2:00pm - Ibrahim Hajar
  — "Embeddability of Abstract Pseudo-Einstein Cauchy-Riemann Manifolds"

Friday, May 7th

• 1:00pm - Lawrence Zhang
  — "A Friendly Introduction to Compressed Sensing"
• 3:00pm - Jiyue Zeng
  — "Numerical Methods for Convex Optimization and Their Applications"
• 3:30pm - Artur Bayramyan
  — "Topological Algebra: Tool of Persistent Homology and Its Application in Analysing US School Data"

Please contact math-advising-g@ucsd.edu for Zoom links.

Professor Andrej Zlatoš has been awarded a 2021 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation.

Congratulations to those students awarded the 2021 Physical Sciences Dean's Award for Undergraduate Excellence: Ricardo Arruda, Samuel Babichenko, Yiwei Cao, Brian Chao, Amanda Huynh, Michael Jaber, Liu Jiazheng, Tomoki Oda, Yixuan Peng, Yueyan Tang, Yining Wang, Thurman Ye, Jiyue Zeng, and Kaiqi Zhang. Special commendation to Keller Jordan, one of three students in the Division to also receive the Selma and Robert Silagi Award.

Congratulations to graduate students Haeseong Moon (Advisor: Professor Wenxin Zhou) and Yiren Wang (Advisor: Professor Dimitris Politis) for being awarded the 2020-2021 Richard Libby Graduate Research Award. Richard Libby ('80, MA '82, PhD) received his degrees in mathematics at UC San Diego before starting a successful career in the finance industry. His recent $100,000 contribution to the university exemplifies his passion for using mathematics in concert with finance and business, in particular when it comes to assessing market risk. Half of his unique gift has been awarded to the Department of Mathematics in support of graduate studies and research.

Assistant Professor Aaron Pollack has been awarded the 2021-2022 AMS Centennial Fellowship by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). See AMS news release.

Rémi Boutonnet has been awarded a Bronze Medal 2021 by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Boutonnet was a UCSD Math postdoc from 2014-2015 mentored by Professor Adrian Ioana.

Spring 2021 Math Qualifying exams will take place May 10-14 and 17-21. Register here by March 26: https://forms.gle/Mfmcz7JmDXLCNndt5

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

Math Industry Day: Careers in Computer Science

The Department of Mathematics in collaboration with the Student Success Center is hosting a Math Industry Day: Careers in Computer Science webinar on Wednesday, March 3rd from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM. The event will feature presentations by industry speakers as they share more about their academic and career journey, their current company, top skills they are seeking in a successful candidate, and more! Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance as well as participate in the live Q & A.

RSVP here.
Learn more about the speakers here.

Assistant Professor Brandon Seward has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. See UCSD news release.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ming Xiao who received a CAREER Award for "Geometric Function Theory in Several Complex Variables" from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Luca Spolaor who received a CAREER Award for "Fine Structure of the Singular Set in Some Geometric Variational Problems" from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Professor Peter Ebenfelt has been awarded the 2020 Bergman Prize by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). See AMS news release.

The Quanta Magazine article "Tetrahedron Solutions Finally Proved Decades After Computer Search" discusses how a new proof co-authored by Professor Kiran Kedlaya was developed.

Join the Division of Physical Sciences for presentations by the 2019-20 Lattimer Faculty Research Fellows: Rommie Amaro (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Suckjoon Jun (Physics), and Bo Li (Mathematics) on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 4:00pm. Register (FREE) for Zoom Webinar.

Associate Professor Alina Bucur has been announced as a 2021 Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). See AWM webpage.

Professor Cristian Popescu has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.

Wednesday, September 16th from 11:00 AM- 12:15 PM

The Department of Mathematics in collaboration with the Student Success Center is hosting a Math Industry Day: Careers in Finance webinar that will feature presentations by industry speakers as they share more about their academic and career journey, their current company, top skills they are seeking in a successful candidate, 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 here.

Richard Libby ('80, MA '82, PhD) received his degrees in mathematics at UC San Diego before starting a successful career in the finance industry. His recent $100,000 contribution to the university exemplifies his passion for using mathematics in concert with finance and business, in particular when it comes to assessing market risk. Half of his unique gift will go to the Department of Mathematics and half to the Rady School of Management in support of graduate studies and research. In light of current events, Richard also agreed to a secondary designation to support the math department’s greatest needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A Virtual Conference on Several Complex Variables will be held August 18-21, 2020. See conference website.

Algebra – August 31
Real Analysis – September 1
Statistics – September 2
Complex Analysis – September 3
Applied Algebra – September 4
Numerical – September 8
Topology – September 9

MATH 282 Comprehensive exam - September 22 

Questions? Please contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu)

Professor Melvin Leok (Mathematics) and Assistant Professor Boris Kramer (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) were awarded a "Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic" by the U.S. Department of Defense for their proposal "Geometric Structure-Preserving Model Reduction for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems". See UCSD News Release.

Professor Ronald Graham died on July 6, 2020 at the age of 84. See UCSD Campus Notice. See UCSD News Release.

Join us for Math Industry Day, featuring industry professionals:

• Kyle Shannon
• Laura Wilke
• Charles Yetman

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 1:00–2:00pm

More details of the event can be found here and the link to the video is here.

Co-sponsored with the Mathematics Department and the Physical Sciences Student Success Center.

In accordance with the UC San Diego "Return to Learn" initiative for Fall 2020, the Math Department will offer undergraduate and graduate courses in In-Person, Hybrid, and Remote formats.

The faculty of the Department of Mathematics have decided to allow students in any Math Department major (MA27, MA29, MA30, MA31, MA32, MA33, MA34, MA35) to take a maximum of four Spring 2020 major courses on a P/NP basis.

If you decide to make the grade option change online, please re-run your degree audit after the change to ensure the course(s) have been properly accepted into your major requirements.

The P grade is an acceptable prerequisite for any Math Department course. An EASy request may be required if WebReg does not automatically recognize the P grade prerequisite when you attempt to enroll. Students who plan to use the P grade as a prerequisite for another department's course should consult with that department before electing the grade option change. 

(Contact math-advising-g@ucsd.edu for Zoom links.)

Monday, May 4th
• 10:00am – Randy Martinez (advised by Claus Sorensen)
— "The Zeta Function on Fermat Hypersurfaces"
• 2:00pm – Omar Vazquez (advised by Ery Arias-Castro)
— "Applications of Instrumental Variables in Real Estate Data Analysis"

Wednesday, May 6th
• 9:30am – Haoyang Li (advised by Ery Arias-Castro)
— "Algorithms and Applications of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra"
• 10:00am – Thu Nguyen (advised by Ery Arias-Castro)
— "Recovering vertices in a preferential attachment model"
• 10:30am – Jeb Runnoe (advised by Philip Gill)
— "Performance of Quasi-Newton Variants for Unconstrained Optimization"
• 11:00am – Yi Fu (advised by Bill Helton)
— "Empirical Properties of Extreme Points Arising in Semidefinite Programming with Matrix Variables"

Please contact math-advising-g@ucsd.edu for Zoom links.

Please sign up via this link, by April 30, 2020:

https://forms.gle/mxzjsA7EyrU3hwe77

Questions? Contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu).

Congratulations to Professor Ruth Williams who has been selected as a Class of 2020 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Due to the drastic changes mandated for Spring quarter, the Applied Statistics Comprehensive exam has been postponed until further notice - registered students will be notified once it has been rescheduled.

Registration: Go to Registration Form

This examination is normally only held twice per year

The Murray and Adylin Rosenblatt Endowed Lecture Series in Applied Mathematics 2020 will be held on February 26, 2020 in Tata Hall at UCSD.

The Mathematics Department Front Desk Advising will be closed from 8:00am-1:00pm on Friday, 2/21/20.

Our hours will restart from 1:00pm-4:00pm.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

The Southern California Number Theory Day will be held on February 22, 2020 in the AP&M building at UCSD.

https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/2020/

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tarek Elgindi who has been selected as a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. See UCSD News Release. 

The Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC) 2020 will be held on March 27-28, 2020 at UCSD.

The Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar (SoCalAGS) - Spring 2020 will be held on February 29, 2020 in the AP&M building at UCSD.

The Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) 2020 will be held on February 22, 2020 in the AP&M building at UCSD.

The deadline to apply to all three Masters programs in Mathematics (Pure Math, Applied Math, and Statistics) is Monday, February 3, 2020.

Congratulations to the following students awarded the 2019-2020 UCSD Physical Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence: Yuhong Chen, Yue Chu, Yijie Fan, Yilan Jiang, Emmie Martirossian, Randy Martinez, Katarina Melendez, Yash Pande, Jeb Runnoe, Keren Shao, Jon Stephens, Haoming Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Zehong Zhao, Ruihan Zhou and Yupei Zhou. And a special notice to Tianyi Yu for being one of three UCSD students in Physical Sciences to receive the Selma and Robert Silagi Award for Undergraduate Excellence.

Students, please note the following change to our Math Capped Screening Criteria management:

As of the Winter 2020 Application Period, Joint Math-Econ majors under the Department of Economics (EN28) will be subject to the same Screening Criteria as all other students not directly admitted to one of our Math majors. EN28 majors must complete the five required courses with a C- or higher and with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in those five courses before being eligible to apply to the Math Department. 

The Winter 2020 Capped Application Period will close on 2/2/20.

Congratulations to Professor James McKernan who has been named a 2020 Fellow of the AMS by the American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Professor Emeritus Murray Rosenblatt died on October 9, 2019 at the age of 93. See memorial website. See UCSD Campus Notice. A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:00pm at El Camino Memorial - Sorrento Valley Park, 5600 Carroll Canyon Rd, San Diego, CA 92121.

The Southern California Analysis and PDE (SCAPDE) 2019 conference will be held November 2-3, 2019 at UCSD. See conference website.

The Math Department Front Desk will have the following limited hours for the rest of this week:

Wednesday 10/2 — 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-3:30pm

Thursday 10/3 — 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-2:00pm 

Friday 10/4 — 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-3:30pm

Please note: The Math Department Front Desk will have shortened hours from 9/27/19 - 10/4/19 (Weeks 0-1).

We will be open from:

9:00AM-12:00PM

&

1:00PM-3:30PM

Please plan accordingly and thank you for your understanding.

The Math Department Front Desk (AP&M 7409) will have shortened hours from 9/27/19 - 10/4/19.

We will be open from:

9:00am-12:00pm

&

1:00pm-3:30pm

Please plan accordingly and thank you for your understanding.

Questions? Please contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu).

The Math Department Front Desk Intake Advising window will be temporarily closed until 8/7/19.

Students can make advising appointments by emailing advisingappt@math.ucsd.edu.

General inquiries can be submitted to the Virtual Advising Center (vac.ucsd.edu) or emailed to mathadvising@math.ucsd.edu.

Undergraduate Petitions and AFA Letters can be submitted to the open window on the south side of APM 7409.

The FA19 Capped Applications are open.

Eligible students who are not currently declared under the Department of Mathematics and wish to change their major will be able apply to any of the eight Math Majors using this link:

https://soeapp.ucsd.edu/cappedmajor/MATH

Eligible students are those who have already completed all five screening courses and have final grades posted on their Academic History. Do not submit an application if you have not yet completed the screening courses. More information on eligibility can be found here: 

https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~handbook/undergraduate/cappedstatus/

Note: Students who are looking to Double Major should not use the online application. Instead, they can apply using a Double Major Petition

Professor Emeritus Hubert Halkin died on May 26, 2019 at the age of 82. See UCSD Campus Notice.

On behalf of the entire Mathematics Department - the Chair and Faculty Council have named five PhD students as the recipients of the 2018-19 Teaching Assistant Award. Please join us in acknowledging the excellence, dedication and hard work of Yingjia Fu, Zach Higgins, Pieter Spaas, Jacqueline Warren and Nantawat Udomchatpitak.

Garsiafest: Future Directions in Algebraic Combinatorics (a conference in honor of Adriano Garsia's 90th birthday) will be held June 17-20, 2019 at the Scripps Seaside Forum at SIO. See https://sites.google.com/view/garsiafest

Congratulations to UCSD Math Undergraduate students Samarth Aggarwal and Alexander Guthrie for their third place finish in the student presentations as part of the 'Affordable Smart Wheelchair' team at the 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The 2019-2020 Planned Course Offerings are now available at https://math.ucsd.edu/~wwwdyn/resources/planned-course-offerings/?year=2019

We would also like to announce new courses being offered for the first time next academic year:

• Math 105 - Basic Number Theory
• Math 106 - Algebraic Geometry
• Math 144 - Introduction to Fourier Analysis
• Math 148 - Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
• Math 158 - Extremal Combinatorics & Graph Theory
• Math 184 - Enumerative Combinatorics
• Math 188 - Algebraic Combinatorics
• Math 173AB - Optimization for Data Science
• Math 190AB - Foundations of Topology

Further information about these new courses will be available upon release of the 2019-2020 General Catalog

The Math Department Front Desk will have the following limited hours on Thursday 3/28/19:

8:00am-12:00pm and

1:00pm-2:00pm

On Thursday, March 7th and Friday, March 8th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective PhD students who have been admitted for Fall 2019. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities and talks. A full schedule can be found online. Attendance is limited to invited guests.

The 2019 Kyoto Prize Symposium - Basic Sciences Presentation featuring mathematician Masaki Kashiwara will be held on March 20, 2019 from 2:00pm-3:30pm in the UCSD Price Center West Ballroom.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tianyi Zheng who has been selected as a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Professor Emeritus Thomas Enright died on January 27, 2019 at the age of 71.  See UCSD Campus Notice.

Congratulations to Marino Romero who has been awarded a UC  President's Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The 26th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (SCGAS) will be held January 26-27, 2019 at UCSD. 
See https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scgas/ 

The Statistics & Data Science Symposium: Beyond Big, Missing or Corrupted Data will be held at UCSD on January 19-20, 2019. Register now! 

A video profile of Professor Ruth Williams and her research, produced in conjunction with the Research Communications Program, was  recently posted by the UCSD Division of Physical Sciences.

Denise Rava has been named as one of three Inamori Fellows for 2019. The Inamori Fellowship Program at UCSD supports the best and brightest graduate students who will ensure the future of humanity through a balance of scientific process and human spirit. Congratulations to Denise!

Skip Garibaldi, director of CCR, who is a UCSD Mathematics alumni (Ph.D. 1998), just got elected as a Fellow of the AMS (Class of 2019).

Numerical – August 27
Topology – August 28
Algebra – August 29
Statistics – August 30
Complex Analysis – August 31
Real Analysis – September 4
Applied Algebra – September 5

Questions? Please contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu).

Andrew Ying has been named as a recipient of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship for 2018-2019. The ARCS Scholarship rewards excellence in research, and is based on the exceptional promise of the recipient to make a significant contribution to the advancement of science. Congratulations to Andrew! 

The following students have been named as recipients of the 2017-18 TA Awards: Jor-el Briones, Daniel Copeland, Geoff Ganzberger, Eric Lybrand, Artem Mavrin, Yucheng Tu.  Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Professor Ruth Williams who has been named a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science.

Statistics — MAY 21st 1-4pm – AP&M 6402
Algebra — MAY 22nd 9am-12pm – AP&M 6402
Numerical — MAY 23rd 1-4pm – AP&M 6402
Applied Algebra — MAY 24th 9am-12pm – AP&M 6402 
Real — MAY 25th 1-4pm – AP&M B412
Complex Analysis — MAY 29th 1-4pm – AP&M 5829
Topology — MAY 30th 9am-12pm – AP&M 6402

CURE = Collaborative Undergraduate Research Experience is an intensive 8-week research program that has run each summer since 2013.

In Summer 2018, it will run from July 2 to August 31. The 4 or 5 selected participants will work with a Ph.D. student and faculty mentor, together as a group, on a research problem of current interest. Participants will be paid a stipend of $4,000 for the summer.

Interested applicants should visit the webpage:
https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~tkemp/CURE/
and follow the application instructions there.

The deadline to apply is June 1, 2018.

The Southern California Analysis and PDE (SCAPDE) 2018 conference will be held June 2-3, 2018 at UCSD. See conference website.

The next Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) conference will be held at UCSD on May 12, 2018. Please visit the conference website for further information:
https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/2018/

Professor Emeritus Fan Chung Graham has been featured in thisweek@ucsandiego.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Todd Kemp who has been selected for the 2017-18 Distinguished Teaching Award for UC San Diego Academic Senate Members.

On Thursday, April 5th and Friday, April 6th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective PhD students who have been admitted for Fall 2018. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities and talks. Program can be found HERE. Attendance restricted to invited students.

Front Desk business hours for Spring Quarter are:

Mon-Fri 

8:00AM-12:00PM & 1:00PM-4:30PM

Please see the schedule on the left side of this page for the weekly Walk-in Advising hours (for course planning, double major petitions, etc.)

Check out our Undergraduate Advising FAQ if you have any questions about our undergraduate programs in Mathematics:

https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~handbook/undergraduate/faq/

In the 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Graduate Schools, the UCSD Mathematics Ph.D. graduate program ranked #19. See UCSD News Release.

The Spring Qualifying Exams will take place from May 21-30th, please sign up here. For any questions, please contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu).

Professor Emeritus Fan Chung Graham has been awarded the 2017 Euler Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). Euler Medals recognize distinguished lifetime career contributions to combinatorial research.

Mathematics and Music - Communicating Complexity and Beauty: Mathematics professors Louis Rowen (Bar-Ilan University) and Dan Rogalski (UCSD) will perform Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major, Opus 102 No. 2. A discussion of the synergies between mathematics and music with music professor Miller Puckette (UCSD) will precede the performance. At the Conrad Prebys Music Center Room 264 from 5-7pm on Thursday, March 15, 2018. See flier. Please RSVP as space is limited. See event video.

The Southern California Analysis and PDE (SCAPDE) 2018 conference will be held March 3-4, 2018 at UCSD. See conference website.

A New York Times article referenced a research study about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders that Professor Ronghui (Lily) Xu helped co-author with public health researchers. This study was published in the medical journal JAMA.

Congratulations to Stefan E. Warschawski Visiting Assistant Professor Ian Charlesworth who has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at UC Berkeley.

Communicating Mathematics in Movies: Join award-winning documentary filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko for a screening of The Discrete Charm of Geometry, followed by a Q&A led by Fields Medalist Efim Zelmanov about Eremenko’s work portraying mathematics and mathematicians on film. At the UCSD Price Center Theatre from 5:00-7:00pm on Monday, February 5, 2018.  Free and open to all UCSD faculty, staff and students. See flier. Please RSVP.

Congratulations to Professor Jiawang Nie who has a paper that has been selected for the 2018 SIAG/Linear Algebra Best Paper Prize, which will be awarded at the 2018 SIAM ALA Conference in Hong Kong, May 4-8, 2018.

The 25th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (SCGAS) will be held at UCI this year on January 27-28th. The conference was organized jointly by UC Irvine and UC San Diego. Graduate students and junior faculty are encouraged to participate. Partial support is available. The conference website is https://www.math.uci.edu/~scgas/scgas-2018/2018.php.

The memorial event for Professor Jeffrey Remmel will be at the UCSD Faculty Club on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 from 2:00pm-5:00pm. See Jeffrey Remmel memorial website

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Linda Rothschild who has been named a member of the inaugural 2018 Class of AWM Fellows by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). 

Congratulations to Professor James McKernan who was awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, jointly with Christopher Hacon (University of Utah). McKernan and Hacon will share $3 million. See award ceremony video from National Geographic. See UCSD news release and thisweek@ucsandiego feature.

Professor Emeritus Ronald K. Getoor died on October 28, 2017 at the age of 88.  See Ronald Getoor memorial website.

The recipients of the 2017-18 Physical Science Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence were recently announced.  Fifteen Mathematics students were named as awardees.  Join with us in congratulating Mengyao Chen, Haiyu Huang, Minsheng Liu, Kuangcong Liu, Xinyi Luo, Chengyuan Ma, Karina Meneses-Cima, Shengwenxin Ni, Yiwei Sang, Rosemary Elliott Smith, Zhiqi Song, Jue Wang, Tianhao Wang, John Bohan Yin and Debbie Zhuang.

Due to the Thanksgiving break, the Math Department Front Desk will be closing on Wednesday, 11/22/17, at 2:30PM.

We will reopen after the Thanksgiving break on Monday, 11/27/17, at 8:00AM.

Congratulations to Professor Peter Ebenfelt and Professor Lei Ni who have been selected as members of the 2018 Class of Fellows of the AMS by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Congratulations to Professor Ruth Williams who was awarded the 2017 WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS) by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

A memorial event for Professor Jeffrey Remmel will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 from 2:00pm-5:00pm at the UCSD Faculty Club. Please RSVP at the Jeffrey Remmel memorial website.

Congratulations to Dimitris Politis who has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the Section on Nonparametric Statistics of the American Statistical Association (ASA) 2017-2018.

Congratulations to Professor Sam Buss who was awarded the Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences by the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Distinguished Professor Jeffrey B. Remmel died on September 29, 2017 at the age of 68.
See Jeffrey Remmel memorial website.

The 2017 Murray and Adylin Rosenblatt Endowed Lecture Series in Applied Mathematics will be held from 3:00pm-6:30pm on October 20, 2017 at UCSD. Tamar Schlick (NYU) and David Donoho (Stanford) will speak. Register to attend at the lecture series website.

Professor Emeritus John W. Evans died on August 20, 2017 at the age of 82. See UCSD Campus Notice.

Professor Emeritus Theodore "Ted" Frankel died on August 5, 2017 at the age of 88. See UCSD Campus Notice.

ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2017 has ranked UCSD Mathematics 18th globally (12th nationally).

Marino Romero has been named as a recipient of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship for 2017-2018. The ARCS Scholarship rewards excellence in research, and is based on the exceptional promise of the recipient to make a significant contribution to the advancement of science, and to the material and intellectual welfare of all people. Congratulations to Marino!

The Fall qualifying exam schedule has been set.  Students interested in sitting for exams should register by August 11.  Click to register.

Contact Kelly Guerriero (kguerriero@ucsd.edu) with questions.

The Math Department Front Desk will resume regular business hours for the rest of the quarter.

• Monday to Friday
• 8:00AM-4:30PM

Congratulations to Professor Jason Schweinsberg who has been elected as a 2017 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Professor Adrian Ioana has been selected as an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 that will be held August 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Congratulations to Adrian for this distinct honor!

The workshop "Geometry of Moduli Spaces" will be held May 19-21, 2017 at UCSD.

On Thursday, April 6th and Friday, April 7th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2017. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities. Program can be found here. Attendance restricted to invited students.

Sean Curry is a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in 2016 at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, for his thesis "Submanifolds in Conformal and CR Manifolds and Applications". Curry is currently a Stefan E. Warschawski Visiting Assistant Professor at UCSD.

The Southern California Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (SCAPDE) 2017 conference will be held April 1-2, 2017 at UCSD.

The next Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) conference will be held at UCSD on March 4-5, 2017. Please visit the conference website for further information:
https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/2017/

The 24th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (SCGAS) will be held February 11-12, 2017 in Center Hall 105 at UCSD. The seminar is an annual event supported by NSF, rotating between UCI and UCSD. This year's speakers are:

• Tom Ilmanen (ETH)
• Fang-Hua Lin (NYU)
• William Minicozzi (MIT)
• André Neves (Chicago)
• Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins)
• Lu Wang (Wisconsin)
• Michael Wolf (Rice)

The registration is FREE for UCSD faculty and students.

Jue 'Marquis' Hou has been named as one of three Inamori Fellows for 2017.  The Inamori Fellowship Program at UCSD supports the best and brightest graduate students who will ensure the future of humanity through a balance of scientific process and human spirit.  Congratulations to Marquis.

The recipients of the 2016-17 Physical Science Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence were recently announced.  Fifteen Mathematics students were named as awardees.  Join with us in congratulating Anthony Armas, Kin Tung Jonathan Chan, Matthew Cheung, Shiyuan Huang, Ran Huo, He Jiang, Shiyang Jin, Mingqian (Maycee) Lin, Zongze Liu, Jiawei Long, Andrew T Nguyen, Eilon Reisin-Tzur, Jialei Wang, Shuheng Wang, and Shifan Zhang.

• The Math Department is closing early on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. The department hours for that day are 8:00am–2:30pm. Normal hours will resume Monday, November 28, 2016.
•  
• UPDATED Walk-In Hours for remainder of Fall 2016 (as of 11/17/2016):
  

  Monday — 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Tuesday — 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Wednesday — 9:00am – 11:00am
  Thursday — 9:00am – 10:00am
  Friday — By Appt Only

  Hours subject to change. Please call ahead same-day to ensure Walk-In Hours have not been changed or canceled — (858) 534-3590.

• Walk-In Advising is not available on Tuesday, November 22nd, therefore, please plan to attend the day before or after. Reminders: Always call the department on the day that you want to attend to ensure of last minute changes in advising hours. Appointments are also available by request at mathadvising@math.ucsd.edu.
•  
• The Math Department is closing early on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. The department hours for that day is 8:00am–2:30pm. Normal hours will resume Monday, November 28, 2016.
•  
• UPDATED Walk-In Hours for remainder of Fall 2016:
  

  Mondays — 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Tuesdays — 1:30pm – 3:00pm
  Wednesdays — 9:00am – 11:00am
  Thursdays — 9:00am – 10:00am
  Fridays — By Appt Only

  Hours subject to change. Please call ahead same-day to ensure Walk-In Hours have not been changed or canceled — (858) 534-3590.

Professor Ruth Williams won the 2016 John von Neumann Theory Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), jointly with Martin Reiman. See UCSD news release and thisweek@ucsandiego feature

Note the adjusted Walk-in hours for the rest of Fall Quarter:

• Mondays   1:30pm - 3:00pm
• Tuesdays   1:30pm - 3:00pm
• Wednesdays   9:00am -11:00am
• Thursdays   9:00am - 10:00am
• Fridays   No hours 

Spring Ph.D. Emily Leven has been named a recipient of the Inaugural AWM Dissertation Prize. Awarded by the Association for Women in Mathematics, Emily will be recognized at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. A student of Adriano Garsia, Emily's dissertation is on "The Combinatorics of nabla pn and connections to the Rational Shuffle Conjecture".
Association for Women in Mathematics Website

Math Ph.D. graduate student Robert Snellman is one of the 35 recipients of the 2016 ARCS (Advancing Science in America) awards for his doctoral thesis work in Number Theory under the supervision of Professors Cristian Popescu and Claus Sorensen. The award carries funding of $7,500 per year, for up to 3 academic years. The awards will be presented by Chancellor Khosla at the UCSD Faculty Club on November 4th, 2:30-3:30pm.
https://san-diego.arcsfoundation.org/

The Murray and Adylin Rosenblatt Endowed Lecture Series in Applied Mathematics features lectures by eminent scholars who use mathematics and statistics in areas of application. Inaugural lectures will be:

• Professor Robert Engle, NYU
  "Dynamic Conditional Beta"
  Oct. 21, 5-6:15pm, Galbraith Hall 242
• Professor Catherine Constable, SIO, UCSD
  "Earth's Magnetic Field: Random Reversals, Stochastic Models, and Physical Interpretations"
  Oct. 22, 1:45-3pm, York Hall 2722

Free registration required to attend. See Rosenblatt lecture series details.

The Southern California Analysis & PDE (SCAPDE) meeting will be on October 15-16, 2016 at UCLA. 

Fall 2016 Math Advising Sessions & Presentations:

• Monday 10/10/16 4-4:50pm in APM 6402
  • Major in Mathematics / Major in Mathematics-Applied Science
• Monday 10/10/16 5-5:50pm in APM 6402
  • Major in Applied Mathematics
• Monday 10/24/16 4-4:50pm in APM 6402
  • Course Planning
• Monday 10/31/16 4-4:50pm in APM 6402
  
  • Joint Major in Mathematics and Economics
• Monday 10/31/16 5-5:50pm in APM 6402
  • Graduate School in Mathematics
• Monday 11/7/16 5-5:50pm in APM 6402
  • Cheiron International Presentation/Recruitment

Congratulations to Professor Peter Ebenfelt who has been elected as a Foreign Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. 

Fall 2016 Math Major Walk-In Advising:

• Monday – 1:30pm-3:00pm
• Tuesday – 1:30pm-4:00pm
• Wednesday – 9:00am-11:00am; 2:00pm-4:00pm
• Thursday – 9:00am-10:00am; 2:00pm-4:00pm
• Friday – 2:00pm-4:00pm

Hours subject to change. Please call ahead same-day to ensure Walk-In Hours have not been changed or canceled — (858) 534-3590 

SUMMER 2016 Math Major Walk-In Advising:

• Monday - By appointment only
• Tuesday - By appointment only
• Wednesday - By appointment only
• Thursday - By appointment only
• Friday - By appointment only

Hours subject to change. Please call ahead same-day to ensure Walk-In Hours have not been changed or canceled — (858) 534-3590

SPRING 2016 Math Major Walk-In Advising:

• Monday - 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Tuesday - 9:30am-11:30am, 1:30pm-3:30pm
• Wednesday - 9:00am-12:00pm (noon)
• Thursday - 8:00am-12:00pm (noon)
• Friday - 2:30pm-4:30pm

Hours subject to change.

WINTER Math Major Walk-In Advising:

• Monday - 1:00-3:00
• Tuesday - 12:00-2:00 and 2:00-4:00
• Wednesday - 9:00-11:00 and 2:00-4:00
• Thursday - 8:00-10:00 and 2:00-4:00
• Friday - 2:00-4:00

Hours subject to change.

Welcome Week 2016 is here, and with it come a batch of undergraduate student orientations:

• Monday  3:30-4:30p = Capped Major Session
• Tuesday  9-10:00a = New Freshman Session (A)
• Tuesday  10-11:00a = New Freshman Session (B)
• Tuesday  1-2:00p = New Math-CS Session
• Tuesday  2-3:00p = New Applied Math Session
• Wednesday  11-12:00p = New Transfer Session

All sessions held in APM B402A (basement)

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has awarded Professor Kiran Kedlaya and his coauthors, Gordon Hamilton and Henri Picciotto, the 2016 George Polya Award for their expository article "Square-Sum Pair Partitions" in the College Mathematics Journal.

Congratulations to Professor Fan Chung Graham who has been elected as a 2016 Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan).

Congratulations to Professor James McKernan who has been selected as a 2016 Simons Investigator awardee by the Simons Foundation.

Congratulations to Professor Laura Stevens who was honored with an Outstanding Professor Award by the UCSD Panhellenic Association at the 10th Annual Panhellenic Scholarship Banquet on May 26, 2016.

UCSD Mathematics faculty Alina Bucur and Kiran Kedlaya are among an international group of mathematicians that developed the "L-functions and Modular Forms Database" - a catalog of mathematical objects and the connections between them.  Read the UCSD News Press Release.

Math Ph.D. graduate student, Robert Snellman, has been awarded the inaugural Academic Integrity Instructional Assistant Award at the 6th annual Integrity Award Ceremony.

The Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SOCAMS) 2016 will be held on June 4, 2016 at the Claremont Colleges.

Effective Fall 2016, all undergraduate majors in the Department of Mathematics will become Capped.  This means that we will have enrollment targets for new and continuing students, and that any student not currently a math major (or not directly admitted into a math major) will need to first complete screening courses to change to a math major.  For more information, please go HERE (PDF).

Congratulations to Professor Michael Holst who has been selected as a Class of 2016 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

From Thursday, March 31st to Friday, April 1st, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2016. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities for prospective mathematics Ph.D. students. Program can be found HERE. Attendance restricted to invited students.

The Graduate Student Workshop in Algebra, Number Theory, and Algebraic Geometry (GradSWANTAG) will be held on March 5, 2016 from 9:30am-3:30pm in AP&M 6402. See GradSWANTAG website for details.

SEW Assistant Professor Lilit Martirosyan has been awarded the 2016 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics for her paper "The representation theory of the exceptional Lie superalgebras F(4) and G(3)" in the Journal of Algebra Vol. 419 (2014). See Notices of the AMS announcement.

The next Southern California Number Theory Day conference will take place Saturday, February 20 at UCSD.

Congratulations to graduate student Xiaolong Li who has been selected as a 2016 Inamori Graduate Fellow.

Professor James McKernan and 3 co-authors will receive the 2016 AMS E. H. Moore Research Article Prize for their article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type," Journal of the AMS (2010).

Ian Agol, Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, has received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Agol received his Ph.D. from the Mathematics Department at UCSD in 1998.

The Complex Algebraic Geometry Conference 2016 will be hosted at UCSD on January 15-18, 2016.  Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/complexalgebraicgeometry2016/

Congratulations to Professor Jim Agler who has been selected as a 2016 Fellow of the AMS.

Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Physical Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence recipients in Mathematics: Leonardo Chan, Nathan Chen, Jaclyn Doo, Xinyi Ma, Tian Pan, Linda Wogulis, Siyue Wu, Yijun Zhou

Thursday, October 29, at 4:00pm in the AP&M 6402 Halkin Seminar Room.  Regius Professor Martin Hairer of The University of Warwick, winner of the 2014 Fields Medal, will speak on his groundbreaking work in stochastic analysis and mathematical physics. See poster.

Undergraduate Freshman Orientation - Tuesday, September 22 at 11:00am in AP&M B402A.
Undergraduate Transfer Orientation - Tuesday, September 22 at 1:00pm in AP&M B402A.

Congratulations to Daniel Hoff, 5th year graduate student, who has been selected to receive the 2015-2016 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) for his excellence in research.

The West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar (WCOAS) will be hosted at UCSD on October 10-11, 2015. The talks will be held in the AP&M building. For more information, see the conference's website: https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~rboutonn/WCOAS2015.html

Congratulations to Professor Rayan Saab who has been selected as a 2015-2016 Hellman Fellow.

Congratulations to Professor John Eggers who was presented with an Outstanding Professor Award for 2014-2015 by the Panhellenic Association at UCSD on May 27, 2015.

Congratulations to incoming graduate student Maria Warren, recipient of a Katzin Prize fellowship. She received one of only five such fellowships awarded for 2015-2016. The fellowship will provide $10,000 of support annually for each year of study, renewable up to five years.

A conference in the Southern California Analysis and PDE (SCAPDE) series will be organized at UCSD on May 2-3, 2015. Information and a registration form can be found at https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scapde/

Congratulations to Professor Laura Stevens who has been selected as a recipient of a 2014-2015 Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members.

Congratulations to Professor Fan Chung Graham who has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for 2015.

A special session of the Southern California Number Theory Day will be organized at UCSD on May 23, 2015. The conference will be followed by a dinner celebrating John Tate's 90th birthday. Visit the SCNTD website for more information.

Graduate student Calum Spicer has been selected as an Inamori Fellow for 2015 by the Inamori Foundation. The Inamori Fellowship Program "supports the best and brightest graduate students who will ensure the future of humanity through a balance of the scientific process and human spirit."

The Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) will be hosted at UCSD on February 14, 2015 in the AP&M building. Visit the SCNTD website for more information.

Cristian D. Popescu was awarded one of the 2015 Simons Fellowships in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation. Professor Popescu will spend the 2015-2016 academic year as a Simons Fellow at Harvard University.

The 22nd Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (SCGAS) will be held at UCSD on February 7-8, 2015. This is an annual meeting which rotates between UCI and UCSD. 

From Thursday, April 2, 2015 to Friday, April 3, 2015, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective mathematics graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2015. Program information for Open House 2015 is available. Attendance restricted to invited students.

Congratulations to the 2014-2015 Physical Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence recipients in Mathematics: Victor Balcer, Steven Gagniere, Jonathan Haapala, Chenzhi Li, Feifei Peng, Neeraj Vipin Sapra, Meredith Quicho, and Zhongzhong Xu.

Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar (SoCalAGS) 2014 on November 15, 2014 in AP&M 6402

Summer School in Mathematical Biology: Spatial Problems from Cells to Tissues to Flocks. Monday, 9/22/2014 - Friday, 9/26/2014 in AP&M 6402, UCSD. For more information visit https://bcamley.physics.ucsd.edu/mathbiosummerschool.html or you may email Bo Li at: bli@math.ucsd.edu

New Mathematics Graduate Student Orientation begins the week of September 16: tours, trainings, announcements, and campus-wide events.

The New Undergraduate Math Orientation will take place Tuesday, September 30.
Freshmen Orientation - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Transfer Orientation - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Orientations will be taking place in room B402A in the APM basement.

Congratulations to Jiawang Nie who was awarded the 2014 Young Researcher Prize by INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS).

A workshop on von Neumann algebras and ergodic theory will be held at UCLA, MS 6627, in the period September 22nd-26th, 2014. For more information, see the workshop's website at https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~aioana/UCLA_workshop.html.

Brainstorm Workshop on Biological Molecules, Cells, and Beyond, August 4 and 5, 2014, AP&M 6402, UCSD. Please email Bo Li (bli@math.ucsd.edu) if you have any questions.

Congratulations to Jelena Bradic, a 2014-2015 Hellman Fellow

On Thursday April 3rd and Friday April 4th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2014. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities for prospective mathematics Ph.D. students. Program information is now available. Attendance restricted to invited students.

A Memorial Conference will be held March 24-27, 2014 in Tunis, Tunisia to honor the memory of Salah Baouendi.

Alumni from the Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program will discuss their experiences with this summer international research internship and cultural exchange. Under the PRIME program, students perform research in Pacific Rim countries, including Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and more. Wednesday, January 8th at 6pm - UCSD International Center Lounge More Information on PRIME .

Congratulations to the following students, who have received a Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Award: Alexander Huang, Fengpei Li, Gulnara Fayzulina, Mengyi Gao, Samuel Tracy, Wenjing Yin.

Congratulations to Patrick Fitzsimmons and Murray Rosenblatt, both of whom have been selected to the 2014 Class of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Join cognitive scientist Rafael Nunez along with Cindy Lawrence and Glen Whitney, Co-Directors of the National Museum of Mathematics as they discuss the interplay between physical experience and mathematical cognition and intuition. Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 5:30-7:30pm Atkinson Hall Auditorium. Free to the public. RSVP: Info@imagination.ucsd.edu.

UCSD is hosting the Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) from November 9-10, 2013.

The New Undergraduate Math Orientation will take place Tuesday, September 24.
Freshmen Orientation - 10:00am to 11:30am
Transfer Orientation - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
The Orientations will be taking place in room B402A in the APM basement.

CAARMS (Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences) 19 will be held at UCSD from July 24-27, 2013. The program will include invited speakers, tutorials, and a graduate student poster session. The conference spotlights the accomplishments of mathematicians from underrepresented minority backgrounds, and is open to all. Conference Website.

Our sincere congratulations to this year's Honors students: - Camille Briat (Random-to-Random Shuffles)
- Greg Edwards (On Genus Zero Stable Maps To The Flag Variety)
- Siuyung Fung (Functions Of Baire Class One)
- Geoff Ganzberger (Some Properties of Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
on their outstanding research projects, their theses, and their terrific public lectures in defense of their work. They have earned the special distinction of an Honors degree. We wish them the best in their future studies and beyond.

New Graduate Student Orientation will be held on September 16, 2013 and Fall Qualifying Exams will be held from September 9 to 13, 2013. More information will be posted soon.

On Thursday April 4th and Friday April 5th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2013. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities for prospective mathematics Ph.D. students. Program information is now available.

Microsoft Research has given $7,500 to the University of California, San Diego to support the Women in Numbers - Europe (WINE 2013) , and Women in Mathematics - Southern California annual conference (WiMSoCal), both coordinated by Dr. Alina Bucur in 2013; and to support the Association for Women in Mathematics UCSD Student Chapter , overseen by Dr. Bucur

The Department of Statistics at Oregon State University has scholarship opportunities for promising applicants to their graduate studies programs with strong ties (or current home address in) Southern California. The Rose Hills Foundation Scholarship award up to $25,000 annually (based on qualifications). For more information visit the program website: Stats at OSU.

Carnegie Mellon University will offer an applied mathematics summer institute for twelve undergraduates considering research careers in mathematical sciences. Students will spend seven weeks in Pittsburgh participating in a course in analysis, a computer laboratory, and working on projects under the direction of research faculty.
The application deadline is March 1, 2013.
Apply Online .

The inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) were just announced: https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/ams-fellows. Please congratulate the following UCSD faculty who were named: Donald Anderson, Fan Chung Graham, Bruce Driver, Adriano Garsia, Ron Getoor, Ron Graham, Bill Helton, Kiran Kedlaya, Jim Lin, Burt Rodin, Linda Rothschild, Lance Small, Harold Stark, Audrey Terras, Nolan Wallach, Ruth Williams, Efim Zelmanov

Looking for a way to do undergraduate research? The FMP can help match undergrads with faculty researchers.
Through the FMP, students will receive 2 quarters of 199 research, attend training sessions and workshops on research and conference presentation, and present their project at the FMP Research Sympsoium in the Spring.
Paricipants must have a GP of 2.7 or higher, be of Junior or Senior status, and must be able to commit to 10 hours a week for two quarters.

Phi Sigma Rho, a social sorority for women in engineering and technical sciences, will be holding their Fall 2012 Recruitment from October 10-12, 2012 at 8pm in the Dolores Huerta Room (Oct. 10) and The Forum (Oct. 11-12). For more details, contact Jill Yee at xpsr.vprecruitment@gmail.com.

The Department of Defense sponsors the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarships. Students working toward undergraduate or graduate degrees in STEM fields can receive full tuition & fees plus a stipend, health insurance, book allowance and internships. For each year of support under SMART, recipients must commit to one year of civilian employment in a DoD laboratory. The deadline to apply is December 14, 2012. Information.

Sept 17th thru Sept 26th.

In partnership with Verizon, the Asian Pacific Community Fund is offering five $2000 scholarships for 2nd year college students majoring in math, sciences, engineering or a related field. The deadline is October 31, 2012. Information and Application.

The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) will offer a two-day undergraduate workshop on Computaional Methodology for Massive Datasets. This workshop will be held on October 26-27, 2012 at SAMSI. SAMSI will reimburse appropriate travel expenses as well as provide food and lodging.

Professor Adrian Ioana has been awarded an European Mathematical Society (EMS) Prize at the 2012 European Congress of Mathematicians in Krakow, Poland.

Congratulations to Alina Bucur, a 2012-2013 Hellman Fellow.

Professor Dimitris Politis has received the 2009-2011 Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize - awarded once every three years for the best article published in the journal Econometric Theory over that period.

On Thursday April 5th and Friday April 6th, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students who have been admitted for Fall 2012. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities for prospective mathematics Ph.D. students. Program information is now available.

This year's Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) is on February 26, 2012. For a schedule of talks and registration, visit the conference page. 

Updated EAP application deadlines. Also new scholarships.

March 10, 2012. Cal Poly Pomona. 8:30am to 4 pm.

Professor Jacques Verstraete has been elected as Program Director of the SIAM Discrete Mathematics group.

Summer 2012 Mathematics Research Experiences for Undergraduates. June 17 - August 11. Number theory, specifically nonunique factorization theory. Application Deadline Mar 5 2012. Information.

Thursday, 17 November 2011 11:00 - 12:00 at APM 5402 Math Club will be hosting a panel discussing the process of applying to REUs (Research Experience for Undergrads) and Graduate School.

The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service Program fully funds undergrad & grad degrees in a wide range of technical areas. Information.

Congratulations to the following math majors : Camille Briat, Ryan Cooper, Monte Cooper, Joseph Doolittle, Gregory Edwards, Lihua Huang and Kevin Vissuet.

Congratulations to the following math majors : Camille Briat, Ryan Cooper, Monte Cooper, Joseph Doolittle, Gregory Edwards, Lihua Huang and Kevin Vissuet.

Information

Asian Pacific Community Fund - Verizon Scholarship Awards Program, deadline for the current cycle of scholarships is in 2 weeks, on Monday, October 31st. Information

AAUW is offering various funding opportunities for the 2012-13 academic year

The department's new graduate student orientation starts at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, September 12, 2011 in AP&M B402.

Suitable for new graduates. Information requisition 11-8772

Microsoft Research has gifted $2,500.00 to the UCSD Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to fund female graduate students to attend research conferences in their mathematical area. 

Project Scientist David Rideout won 3rd place in the UCSD S&E Library's "Art of Science 2011" competition with an image entitled "The First 10^-42 Seconds".

Professor Todd Kemp has been selected as a Hellman Fellow for 2011-2012

Professor Dimitris Politis has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-2012.

Mathematician will lecture as part of the Kyoto Prize Symposium (free and open to the public) on April 5, 2011 from 3:30pm-5:00pm in the Price Center West Ballroom at UCSD.
See UCSD News Release or UCSD Physical Sciences News

On March 31 and April 1, the UCSD Department of Mathematics will host its annual Open House for prospective graduate students. The schedule of events is packed with two days of activities for prospective mathematics Ph.D. students.