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February 21, 2017

Our faculty member, Pierre Simon, has been selected as a 2017 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.

January 9, 2017

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck!

Note that the QR exam is given only once per semester.

November 27, 2016

The Fall 2016 issue of the Department of Mathematics newsletter is available here

September 26, 2016

June 22, 2016

Professor Mina Aganagic has been selected as a 2016 Simons Investigator in Physics for her outstanding research on applications of quantum physics to mathematical problems.

May 3, 2016

Ian Agol and Steve Evans are among the 84 new members elected by the National Academy of Science this year in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Per Prizes and Honors / The University Medal, the University Medal is awarded "to the most distinguished graduating senior on the UC Berkeley campus". 

A very nice article and video can be found here: Top graduating senior finds nirvana in pure math - Berkeley News.

April 5, 2016

Congratulations to Lewis Chen, Donovan Lieu, Clark Lyons, and Henry Maltby for earning Honorable Mention honors in the 2015 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition! Other UC Berkeley students finishing in the top 200 (out of 4275 competitors) were Justin Ahmann, Aaron Doman, Nishant Pappireddi, and Eric Severson. UC Berkeley had more students place in the top 200 than any other public school in the United States or Canada!

April 3, 2016

April 1, 2016

February 23, 2016

Our faculty member, Nikhil Srivastava, has been selected as a 2016 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 1, 2015

The Fall 2015 issue of the Department of Mathematics newsletter is available here

November 30, 2015

Congratulations to Undergraduate Math Major Kaavya Valiveti! She has been selected to receive an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics competition.

November 24, 2015

In the 2015 AMS Election, Kenneth A. Ribet was elected president. He will serve as president-elect beginning in 2016 and will begin his two-year term as AMS president in 2017.

November 23, 2015

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected James Demmel as one of AAAS Fellows for 2015, in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership.

November 9, 2015

Congratulations to Professor Ian Agol for winning the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics! The award is due to his "spectacular contributions to low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including work on the solutions of the tameness, virtual Haken and virtual fibering conjectures."

November 2, 2015

The Breakthrough Foundation Symposium will take place at Berkeley this year on Nov 9, with participation of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize winner and of our colleagues from Berkeley and Stanford.

October 18, 2015

As faculty of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department, we are committed to taking an active role in maintaining a safe and inclusive workplace, free of sexual harassment. We feel that the University procedures currently in place fail to protect our students from sexual harassment, and allow perpetrators to remain in positions of authority and trust on campus, with minimal sanctions. The recent case of Prof. Geoff Marcy serves to illustrate this failure. The ineffectiveness of the current system has had devastating consequences for students and other vulnerable community members. We ask the UC administration to work with faculty and students to develop a transparent process in which cases of harassment and assault can be reported and dealt with in an effective manner, with meaningful sanctions when warranted.

September 24, 2015

For more information, please visit New DOE Office of Science support for CAMERA to develop computational mathematics for experimental facilities research, Berkeley Lab Computing Science News.