UCLA Department of Mathematics

Twenty Scientists to Watch in the Next 20 Years (Oct)
UCLA Math Dept. faculty member, Terence Tao is one of among 20 young scientists profiled in the October 2000 issue of Discover magazine as being researchers who "have demonstrated once-in-a-generation insight." Quoted from the article:
Mathematician Terry Tao, at 25 the youngest full professor the University of California at Los Angeles has employed in decades, lives in a world that has no connection to reality. Put in the simplest of terms, he studies how to "control the number of times a wave focuses at a point," and readily admits this abstract mathematical concept is complicated and "very theoretical." Still, he believes the ultimate reverberations from his research are simply not foreseeable. Descartes, he notes, had no idea that his calculus would one day make predicting the orbit of a satellite possible. "The work of mathematicians from even a millennium ago is still routinely used," Tao observes, "and the stuff that we do today is going to be part of the math of the future."
Math Convention Problems Just Keep On Multiplying (Aug)
LA Times front page article on the AMS 2000 Conference at UCLA, "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century." (8/12/00)
For Mathematicians, 'a Once in a Century Thing' (Aug)
LA Times Science Section article by K.C. Cole on the AMS 2000 conference including an interview with Tony Chan. Cole is the author of several books including The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty. (8/10/00)
The Power of Partitions(Jun)
Writing a whole number as the sum of smaller numbers springs a mathematical surprise
The Science News article features UCLA Math Alumni, Ken Ono, (PhD. '93). Ono holds positions at both Penn State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He described his results in the January 2000 Annals of Mathematics. Ono received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Packard Fellowship in 1999.
Summer Conferences: AMS Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century and MathFest 2000.
Math Department Faculty Members, Murray Schacher and Skip Garibaldi hosted a Satellite Conference on Algebra with respect to the AMS 2000 event.
LA Times articles on the AMS Conference at UCLA:
- Math Convention Problems Just Keep On Multiplying
  (front page article 8/12/00)
- For Mathematicians, 'a Once in a Century Thing'
  (Science Section 8/10/00)
Mathematics in the 20th Century: Major Problems and Advances:
Exhibit of important developments in mathematics during the last century. UCLA Powell Library Rotunda August 7 - 31, 2000
UCLA articles on conference events:
- Mathematicians Head for Campus
- Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century Explored at AMS Conference at UCLA
IPAM Opening 8/5/00: UCLA Dedicates $12.5 Million Mathematics Institute to Strengthen Ties Between Math and Other Sciences
IPAM Opening Reception (8/5/00)
Terence Tao was featured in a UCLA News article about his promotion to full professor at age 24! Look for Terence in the October issue of Discover magazine highlighting 20 outstanding scientists under age 40. Congratulations Terence!
Twenty Scientists to Watch in the Next 20 Years
UCLA Math Dept. faculty member, Terence Tao is one of among 20 young scientists profiled in the October 2000 issue of Discover magazine as being researchers who "have demonstrated once-in-a-generation insight."
Image Processing Research Group: website includes research descriptions, reports, seminars, and information about group members.
Tony Chan received the Faculty/Staff Partnership Award.
Special Department Awards: June 9, 2000.
Thiele receives the Dean's Marshal Award
Distinguished Lecture Series: Gang Tian
Glen Culler received the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Culler was educated as a pure mathematician at UCLA.
Ken Ono, Professor of Mathematics at Penn State, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Ono earned a doctoral degree in Mathematics at UCLA in 1993.
The Department hosted a series of lectures for Mathematics Awareness Month.
Congratulations to Jamylle Carter and Andrew Knightly for receiving the CMI Liftoff Award.
Congratulations to Terry Tao for receiving the Packard Foundation Fellowship and the Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellowship. UCLA Math Alumni, Ken Ono, (PhD. '93) also received the Packard Fellowship.
Alison Labonte received the Charles and Sue Young Undergraduate Award on March 6, 2000.
Christoph Thiele was awarded the 2000 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for his work in harmonic analysis
Paul H. Roberts Awarded 1999 John Adam Fleming Medal " for his outstanding contributions to process of the core and its dynamo." More details on Roberts' work: Solving a Magnetic Mystery .
NSF Opts for Three Institutes: UCLA's IPAM To Join IMA, MSRI: SIAM News article provides more details on the math institute's interdisciplinary programs including interviews with the Co-Directors, Mark Green & Eitan Tadmor, and UCLA Math Dept. Chair, Tony Chan. (8/99)
AMS Notices: "NSF Keeps Two Existing Institutes and Funds a Third: IPAM at UCLA" (8/99) (PDF document) Use the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print the article.
"New Math center to link up scientists": UCLA Today printed an article on the new Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. (7/27/99)

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