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2003 May 2002 "Skip Garibaldi, a VIGRE-supported postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles, has both a teaching and a research mentor. The latter is helping him write a book with Jean-Pierre Serre, a former winner of the Fields Medal (the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize). "You can't get much above Serre, and you can't get much below me," says Garibaldi. "So that's an example of vertical integration." November 2001 August 2001 "The newest NSF-supported maths centre, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, opened its doors this year with a five-year budget from the NSF of $12.5 million. According to its director, Tony Chan, the institute aims to bring mathematics to new problems in the sciences. Recent programmes have been concerned with functional genomics, stochastic processes in biology and modelling of crystallization. Programmes in finance and economics focus on risk management, arbitrage, derivatives pricing in energy markets and catastrophe insurance. A third area of interest is the mathematics of image processing." June 2001 April 2001 Linear Algebra to
Quantum Cohomology: The Story of Alfred Horn's Inequalities "A long-standing problem in linear algebra--Alfred Horn's conjecture on eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices--has been solved recently. The solution appeared in two papers, one by Alexander Klyachko in 1998 and the other by Allen Knutson and Terence Tao in 1999. This has been followed by a flurry of activity that has brought to the mathematical centre-stage what for many years had been somewhat of a side-show. The aim of this article is to describe the problem, its origins, some of the early work on it, and some ideas that have gone into its solution." Alfred Horn, Palisadian Since 1954 and
Noted UCLA Math Professor "Alfred Horn, a professor of mathematics at UCLA from 1947 until his retirement in 1988, died at home in Pacific Palisades on April 16, 2001. Professor Horn published 35 papers during his career, mostly in the areas of lattice theory and universal algebra. Among the highlights of his research is a 1962 paper on linear algebra titled "Eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices," in which he makes a conjecture, the last step of which he lived to see proved by another UCLA mathematician (Terence Tao) in 1998. His papers leap from one area of mathematics to another, so it is difficult to judge his contribution by the simple number of papers he published. He will probably be most remembered for another paper titled "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras," published in 1951. This paper describes Horn sentences and Horn clauses, which became important in the 1970s in computational logic used for computer programming." October 2000 Twenty
Scientists to Watch in the Next 20 Years 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." August 2000 Math Convention Problems Just
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| September 1999 Tsunami out of the Computer 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 |
May 1999 Schonmann awarded Guggenheim Professor Roberto Schonmann was among six UCLA researchers awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 1999. |
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March 1999 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] |
January 1999 "1999 Innovators" 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. |
| November 1, 1998 "Mathematics and You in the 21st Century" Sing Tao Daily, Los Angeles, USA Edition The newspaper article covers a speech made by the Department Chair, Tony Chan: "Although Mathematics can be studied in the abstract, it has many applications. The lack of interest in Mathematics from Hong Kong students can be a barrier to development in science and technology." |
| July 14, 1998 "Math Whizzes Want Respect in Equation" Los Angeles Times Several UCLA Mathematicians were featured in this column one, front page article including interviews with Tony Chan (dept. chair), Stanley Osher, Russel Caflisch, and Mark Green. |
| May 1, 1998 "Mathematics Integral Part of Movie Equation" Daily Bruin The UCLA Mathematics Department hosted a series of lectures for the National Mathematics Awareness Week (MAW) celebrating "Mathematics and Imaging." One of the speakers was the special effects creator for "Titanic," Digital Domain. |