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- Tsunami out of the Computer (Sept)
When a catastrophe in the movies should look realistic, Hollywood calls for the mathematicians. The article features the work of Stanley Osher and Ron Fedkiw. English translation from the German article by Vasco A. Schmidt in Die Zeit, a major German weekly newspaper published in Hamburg, Germany
- Schonmann awarded Guggenheim (May)
Professor Roberto Schonmann was among six UCLA researchers awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 1999.
- Osher featured in Science News article (Apr)
Applied Mathematician, Stanley Osher was featured in the recent Science News article, "Computing at the Edge." The article explores the level-set approach for modeling complex behavior at interfaces.
- AMS 2000: UCLA Mathematics will host a special meeting, "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century", August 7-12, 2000. An article relating to the event appeared in the March 1999 issue of Notices of the AMS: [notice0399.ps] | [notice0399.pdf]
- "1999 Innovators" (Jan)
Trans World Airlines Ambassador Magazine
UCLA Mathematics Professors Tony Chan and Stan Osher were featured in an article exploring how mathematicians solve different types of real world problems.
- The Science & Engineering Library unveiled its new website, which features a section on
Mathematics.
- A Special Awards Ceremony was
held on June 11, 1999 to recognize the following faculty and graduate
students:
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship - Terence Tao
- John S. Guggenheim Fellowship - Roberto Schonmann
- Robert Sorgenfrey Distinguished Teaching Awards:
- Faculty: Shelley Kriegler, Thomas Liggett, David Strong
- Teaching Assistants: Ann Cortez, William Cowieson, Robert
Guzzo, Howard Lee
- Horn-Moez Prize for Excellence in First-Year Graduate Studies
- Vrej Zarikian
- A recent Science Magazine article, "Mathematics
Gets Institutionalized--Again" features details regarding
IPAM, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.
- Professor Roberto Schonmann was among six UCLA researchers awarded the prestigious Guggenheim
Fellowship for 1999.
- Osher
featured in Science News article
Applied Mathematician, Stanley
Osher was featured in the Science News article, "Computing
at the Edge." The article explores the level-set approach for
modeling complex behavior at interfaces.
- US
News and World Report ranked the top PhD Mathematics programs
in the country. The UCLA Mathematics Department placed 12th overall,
9th in Applied Mathematics, 10th in Algebra, and 3rd in Logic. (1999)
- Several faculty members from the UCLA Mathematics Department were
noted in the newsletter, The Basics:
- Ming Gu was awarded
the 1998 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on a fourth-order
differential operator called the Paneitz operator.
- Plus information about the Millennium
Meeting to be held August 7-12, 2000.
- UCLA participated in the 59th annual William
Lowell Putnam Competition, a mathematics competition for undergraduates
in the United States and Canada.
- Honors won by UCLA Mathematics
Faculty
- Entertainment Weekly featured an article on Alumnae: Danica
McKellar, Brandy Winn, and Professor Lincoln
Chayes. (3/12/99)
- AMS 2000: UCLA Mathematics will host
a special meeting, "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century",
August 7-12, 2000. An article relating to the event appeared in the
March 1999 issue of Notices of the AMS:
[notice0399.ps] | [notice0399.pdf]
- UCLA Mathematics Professors Tony Chan and Stan Osher were featured
in a Trans World Airlines Ambassador Magazine
article exploring how mathematicians solve different types of
real world problems.
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