A group of extraordinary Math students were among the most recent class of undergraduates invited to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society.  These students all have GPAs of 3.85 or higher and have completed coursework across humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and competency in a second language.  Join us in congratulating Gregory Chan, Huiting Chen, Yudong Chen, Saya Egashira, Julie Hunter, Wanning Lu, Aidan Duc-Hung Mai, Katelyn Joelle Manansala, Boogie Mikulec, Sahibdeep Nann, Aditi Sadwelkar, Allen Zhang, Xiuyuan Zhang, and Ryan Minghao Zhao.

Congratulations to Gabriela Hernandez (MSED PhD student) on being named a Grad SLAM 2025 Finalist! 

Out of 61 graduate students who entered this year’s competition, only 10 were selected as Finalists—and Gabriela’s outstanding research presentation earned her a spot among them!

UC San Diego’s Grad SLAM is a UC-wide competition that challenges grad students to communicate the significance of their research in just three minutes, using language accessible to a general audience. It’s all about sharpening public speaking skills, showcasing cutting-edge research, and celebrating the power of clear and compelling communication.

We’re so proud of Gabriela for representing our MSED community with excellence! 

2025 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics is delighted to announce that Professor Cristian D.
Popescu was awarded one of the 2025 Simons Fellowships in Mathematics by the
Simons Foundation.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees

Professor Popescu will use this award to spend the 2025-2026 academic year as a
Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and as a Member of the School Mathematics at
the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. While in Princeton, Professor Popescu will
investigate new approaches to the theory of special values of motivic L-functions, a
central area of research within number theory and arithmetic geometry.

This is Professor Popescu’s second Simons Fellowship, following a 2015-2016 award
spent as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

The Simons Foundation, established in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, advances the
frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences through grant funding,
support for research and public engagement (https://www.simonsfoundation.org).

Congratulations to our 11 undergraduate math majors who have been named among the recipients of the 2024-2025 Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence!  The recipients are Yu Shang, Varun Sreedhar, Brian Ton, Pranav Reddy, Daniel Monroe, Mica Li, Adi Krishnamoorthy, Eric Nguyen, Rita Yujia Wu, Jihyun In, and Alisha Foster.

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Carol & George Lattimer Award for Graduate Excellence math major recipient, Sawyer Robertson!

Congratulations to incoming faculty member Federico Pasqualotto on receiving the Stefan Bergman Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Federico's research interests center on the partial differential equations of mathematical physics that arise in several physical theories: fluid mechanics, nonlinear wave equations, mathematical general relativity and dispersive equations.

Learn more about the fellowship on the AMS website.

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.