Department News

During the 2010 holiday season, UC San Diego, including the Department of Mathematics will officially close for 16 days between Saturday, December 18, 2010 and Sunday, January 2, 2011. The department will reopen on Monday, January 3, 2011. Happy holidays!
(Dec 16, 2010)

Congratulations to the following Math Majors: Matthew Ming Cha, Allyson Chee, Jacky Chong, Duy Dao, Kamron Farman-Farmaian, Robert Rivera, Briana West.
(Oct 28, 2010)

Ruth Williams was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia on October 21, 2010.
(Oct 28, 2010)

Wednesday, 03 November 2010 16:00 - 18:00 at APM 2402 What can you do with a Math Major? Former UCSD Math students will come in and talk about their careers.
Emily Shen - BA Applied Mathematics 1994
Brian Long - BA Math-App Sci/BS Management Sci/BA Psychology, 2000 and JD Law, 2003
Joey Hammer - BA Math-Computer Sci/Music-ICAM, 2005 and MS Computer Sci, 2007
(Oct 25, 2010)

Celebrating the many contributions & achievements of official statistics. Service : Professionalism : Integrity
(Oct 19, 2010)

Control, Optimization & Functional Analysis: Synergies and Perspectives,
October 2-4, 2010, Banquet, Saturday, October 2.
Workshop Program. Banquet Registration etc.
(Sep 22, 2010)

The department's new graduate student orientation starts at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, September 13, 2010 in AP&M B402.
(Sep 7, 2010)

Professors Li-Tien Cheng , Bo Li, and Andrew McCammon (Chemistry and Biochemistry) have been awarded a National Institute of Health grant of $1.2M to conduct interdisciplinary research on biomolecular interactions with applications to rational drug design.
(Aug 24, 2010)

The ICM, 2010 started today in Hyderabad, India, and Professor Kiran Kedlaya has been invited to give a 45-min talk in the Number Theory Section.
(Aug 18, 2010)

Schedule
(Aug 3, 2010)

Professor Ruth Williams has been selected as the next President-elect of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
(Jul 13, 2010)

The AWM local chapter hosted a conference for Southern California Mathematics Majors. More Information.
(May 18, 2010)

The Mathematics Department has been awarded a Dept of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need grant providing financial support to Ph.D. students.
(May 18, 2010)

Laura Stevens has been selected for the Outstanding Professor Award by the UCSD Panhellenic Association.
(May 11, 2010)

Mathematics Department faculty member Dragos Oprea has been named a UC San Diego Hellman Faculty Fellow for 2009-2010.
(May 5, 2010)

Melvin Leok and Michael Holst are hosting the 6th Structured Integrators Workshop on April 26-27, 2010, at UCSD. Information.
(Apr 16, 2010)

Undergraduate and Graduate students from UCSD's Math Department spent a day at the San Diego Science Festival, teaching kids how math can be fun with several exhibits, including a graph coloring activity, a project on the geometry of origami, and a topological twist on Tic-Tac-Toe.
(Apr 7, 2010)

UCSD is hosting the Southern California Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Conference at UCSD. For more information, please visit http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scapde/
(Mar 31, 2010)

April 3, UC San Diego, AP&M 6402. Information.
(Mar 24, 2010)

The department of mathematics is hosting an open house for newly admitted graduate students entering Fall 2010. Program information is now available.
(Mar 22, 2010)

The Center for Computational Mathematics, with support from the UCSD Division of Physical Sciences, is hosting the 26th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (PCGM26) on March 26-27, 2010. For more information: http://ccom.ucsd.edu/~pcgm26/
(Mar 15, 2010)

Jiawang Nie and Bill Helton are organizing a workshop on Linear Matrix Inequalities and Polynomial Optimization (LMIPO) on March 22-25. For more information visit LMIPO at UCSD
(Mar 12, 2010)

Wee Teck Gan, Cristian Popescu, Harold Stark, with financial support from the NSA and UCSD are hosting the Southern California Number Theory Day at UCSD. For more information, please visit http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/
(Feb 22, 2010)

Mark Gross (UCSD), Ilia Itenberg (Strasbourg), Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami), Yan Soibelman (KSU), Ilia Zharkov (KSU) are organizing a conference at UCSD on Tropical Geometry and Mirror Symmetry. For more information http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~mgross/ctgms/
(Feb 8, 2010)