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March 1, 2021

Congratulations to Undergraduate Math Major Eunice Sukarto!

February 8, 2021

  • UC Berkeley's Black Staff & Faculty Organization is hosting two separate film and discussion sessions during February. To learn more and register go here.

January 21, 2021

Congratulations to Professor Nikhil Srivastava, who jointly with Adam Marcus, EPFL, and Daniel Spielman, Yale University, won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize of the National Academy of Sciences for their breakthrough works on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs, and the underlying theory that leads to new connections between computer science, mathematics and physics.

December 3, 2020

Season's greetings from the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics! Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, we are happy to share our 2020 departmental newsletter with you. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year ahead.

November 30, 2020

Professor Lin Lin and Dr. Weile Jia (postdoctoral scholar 2016-2020), and collaborators (Weile Jia, University of California, Berkeley; Han Wang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing, China); Mohan Chen, Peking University; Denghui Lu, Peking University; Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Roberto Car, Princeton University; Weinan E, Princeton University; and Linfeng Zhang, Princeton University) won the 2020 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize. The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

November 2, 2020

Professor Michael Christ has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021 Class) for contributions to harmonic and complex analysis, and linear partial differential equations.

Lionel Levine, 2007 PhD graduate, of Cornell University has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021 Class) for contributions to research and exposition in probability theory and combinatorics. 

September 10, 2020

Congratulations to Song Sun who has been awarded a 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation! This award was given for Professor Sun's "many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities."

June 22, 2020

Our 2019 PhD graduate, Anna Seigal, has been awarded the 2020 Richard C. DiPrima Prize. The Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded every two years to one early career researcher who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics and who has completed his/her doctoral dissertation and completed all other requirements for his/her doctorate.

June 10, 2020

#Strike4BlackLives#ShutDownSTEM#ShutDownAcademia - Wednesday, June 10th is a national day of action to end global anti-blackness and advocate for change.  Click on the hashtag links above to find out how to participate, advocate, and change.  "Our responsibility starts with our role in society." - #ShutDownSTEM

April 3, 2020

Our faculty member, Alexander Paulin, has been selected as a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award winner. Four UC Berkeley faculty have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.

February 13, 2020

Our faculty member, Sung-Jin Oh, has been selected as a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships goes to US and Canadian researchers whose, according to the foundation, achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and the next generation of scientific leaders.

December 17, 2019

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December 12, 2019

Season's greetings from the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics! Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, we are happy to share our 2019 departmental newsletter with you. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year ahead.

November 1, 2019

Professor Suncica Canic has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2020 Class) for contributions to partial differential equations, and for mathematical modeling of fluid-structure interactions that has influenced the design of medical devices.

October 28, 2019

Professor Eisenbud will be presented the 2020 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service on January 16, 2020 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, for his exceptional leadership and outreach efforts while director of MSRI, president of the AMS, and director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Simons Foundation.

May 20, 2019

April 30, 2019

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April 19, 2019

Congratulations to: 

  • Alois Cerbu, National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowships Program 
  • Theo McKenzie, National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowships Program & Ford Foundation Fellowship Program 
  • Luya Wang, National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowships Program 
  • Yuan Yao, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Fellowship
  • Boyan Xu, U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
  • Christopher Eur, UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship

April 18, 2019

We are very sad to report the death of Professor Emeritus Elwyn Berlekamp on April 9, 2019. Professor Berlekamp's legacy includes significant contributions in algebraic coding theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial game theory.

December 19, 2018

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