2005

• UCLA Mathematics alumna and film/television actress Danica McKellar and Professor Lincoln Chayes are featured in a New York Times (July 19, 2005), article entitled "Between Series, an Actress Became a Superstar (in Math)". Free registration is required to view the entire article
• Commencement 2005 Information
• Welcome to new faculty, visitors, and guests for 2004-2005!
• Spring 2005 Math and Program in Computing (PIC) Courses
• Kefeng Liu and our former student Tom Hou were awarded, respectively, a Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics and a Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics at the Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Hong Kong, December 17, 2004. Information on these awars is posted at Hong Kong's IMS.
• Andrea Bertozzi gave one of the two AMS-MAA Joint Invited Addresses at the AMS annual meeting in Atlanta, January 2005.
• Terence Tao jointly with Allen Knutson, received the AMS Conant Prize at the January Joint Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta. A news release is posted at AMS.
• Narutaka Ozawa has been awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship.
• Professor Stanley Osher was elected to the National Academy of Sciences NAS this spring
  (view the Celebration!)
• Professor Stanley Osher has won the SIAM Kleinman Prize for his many contributions to the analysis and computation of hyperbolic equations and their applications in science and engineering, and for his mentoring of young scientists and service to the scientific community. His many innovations in numerical schemes for conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations and in the development of the level set method and its applications have had enormous impact across disciplinary boundaries in image processing, control, flow simulation, and many other fields.
• Professor in residence Achi Brandt wins SIAM Computer Science and Engineering Prize.
• Christoph Thiele has received the UCLA Staff Assembly's Faculty/Staff Partnership Award
• Jeremy Brandman and Alejandro Cantarero, graduate students in the Department of Mathematics have been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Please check out NSF for more information on this prestigious award.
• Ron Fedkiw (PhD 1996) just won the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2005).

2004

• Rowan Killip wins Sloan Research Fellowship
• Tony Martin elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2004.
• Tony Chan and Luminita Vese paper Active Contours Without Edges received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for 2003. Awarded May 2004 at the ICASSP in Montreal.
• Greg Hjorth wins 2003 Karp Prize from the Association of Symbolic Logic
• Bill Duke will be presenting at this year's Faculty Research Colloquium

2003

• Congratulations to Terence Tao who received a 2003 Clay Research Award, which recognizes extraordinary achievement in mathematics.
• UCLA PhD Jared Tanner has just won the Leslie Fox Prize in numerical analysis.
  Jared wrote his dissertation here with Prof. Eitan Tadmor, finishing in 2002.
• Congratulations to Luminita Vese who received a 2003 Sloan Research Fellowship.
• Poster and slide material from the recent workshop: Subgrid Scale Turbulence Methods for Geodynamo Simulations, organized by Paul Roberts.
• Faculty Retreat at Mays' Landing - September 23, 2003.
• View pictures from the 2003 Special Awards Ceremony
• Professor Stanley Osher was awarded the ICIAM Pioneer Prize for 2003 "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to applied mathematics and computational science."
• Distinguished Lecture Series 2003: Robert P. Langlands (IAS) gives a month long lecture series in April 2003. May lectures include Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) : May 1-2 and Hillel Furstenberg : May 14-16.
• Recent Advances in Von Neumann Algebras: Conference at UCLA in celebration of Masamichi Takesaki's 70^th Birthday (May 14 - 17)
• John Garnett received the 2003 AMS Steele Prize for Exposition at the AMS Winter meeting for his book "Bounded Analytic Functions."
• Logic Meeting: informal gathering of logicians at UCLA on January 24–26, 2003, in honor of Yiannis N. Moschovakis' 65th birthday.
• IPAM Summer Programs 2003: Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS - undergrads) & Modern Applied Mathematics for the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (MAMAOS - grads/postdocs). Check the website for application and deadline information.
• "Teaching Teachers - The Math Department Reaches Out." Article in The Basics Newsletter about math education programs at UCLA.
• "Exploring new directions in scientific computing": Details on the four day conference in Hong Kong honoring Stanley Osher.
• Where are they now? Ph.D. Alumni of the UCLA Math Department including awards won by Ron Fedkiw, Hong-Kai Zhao, & Hao-Min Zhou.
  
• VIGRE Program: Overview of the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate programs at UCLA Math as part of the Vertical Integration of Research and Education grant funded by the NSF.
• Math Programs for Teachers: UCLA offers a variety of programs for teachers through the Department of Mathematics and Graduate School of Education.

2002

• Faculty Retreat at Mays' Landing: Tuesday, September 24, 2002.
• Alumni News on Ronald Fedkiw, Hong-Kai Zhao, Hao-Min Zhou. Plus additional information on various alumni.
• Welcome new faculty, visitors, and guests for 2002-2003.
• VIGRE Program: Overview of the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate programs at UCLA Math as part of the Vertical Integration of Research and Education grant funded by the NSF.
• UCLA Math Alumni, Hao-Min Zhou (now at Caltech) won an honorable mention in the Householder Prize for his dissertation, "Wavelet transformations and PDE techniques in image compression", written at UCLA under the supervision of Tony Chan. The report is available for download on the CAM Reports Webpage.
• 2002 Mathematics Department Commencement
• Memorial Service to honor the life of David Cohen (September 28, 1942 - May 21, 2002): Monday, June 10th: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 6620 Math Sciences. Daily Bruin article.
• Chris Anderson will receive the 2002 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
• Kefeng Liu has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2002, an award presented for "unusually distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."
• US News and World Report ranked the top PhD Mathematics programs in the country for 2002. The UCLA Mathematics Department placed 10th in Mathematics and 5th in Applied Mathematics.
• Special Awards Ceremony 2002 : Monday, May 13, 2002.
• VIGRE Program: Overview of the postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate programs at UCLA Math as part of the Vertical Integration of Research and Education grant funded by the NSF.
• Distinguished Lecture Series 2001-2002: featured I. M. Singer (M.I.T.), Jesper Lutzen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), L. H. Eliasson (KTH (Stockholm), University of Paris VII), Raoul Bott (Harvard), Dennis Gaitsgory (University of Chicago), Gilles Pisier (Texas A & M, Paris VI) , Gregg Zuckerman (Yale), Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue)
• Professor Heinz-Otto Kreiss will receive the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis "for his seminal contribution to the understanding of differential and difference equations and for his many outstanding contributions to numerical analysis, fluid dynamics, and meteorology."
• Professor Terence Tao received the AMS Bocher Prize. "Professor Tao is being honored for his recent fundamental breakthrough on the problem of critical regularity in Sobolev spaces of the wave maps equations."
• OsherFest Conference on the occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th birthday: International Conference on Scientific Computing, Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing. April 5-7, 2002 at UCLA.

2001

• Math Push Adds Up for Chief of Science Foundation: Los Angeles Times article by K.C. Cole contains an interview with Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation. "Colwell has set a new priority for the NSF, and it's not life sciences, but mathematics."
• Gill Distinguished Lecture Series 2000 - 2001: One month lecture series in January featuring Fields Medal Winner, Jean-Pierre Serre (Collège de France). Other one week lecture series include Sir Michael Atiyah and David Mumford (Brown).
• New Faculty: Please welcome our new faculty members: William Duke, Kefeng Liu, and Itay Neeman. Includes listing of all new faculty, visitors and guests.
• Conference on Complex and Harmonic Analysis honoring the 60th birthday of John B. Garnett. December 8 and 9 at IPAM.
• Math Programs for Teachers:UCLA offers a variety of programs for teachers through the Department of Mathematics and Graduate School of Education.
• PIC Professor, Dario Nardi was featured in the Daily Bruin article of 11/29/01: "Computer program teaches PIC class about artificial intelligence"
• Professor Tony Chan named the new Dean of Physical Sciences. Professor Chan was formerly the IPAM Director and Math Department Chair.
• "Mathematicians are in short supply in the United States." [PDF File] Nature article features IPAM and Tony Chan.
• Newspaper article on the life of Professor Alfred Horn
• Special Awards Ceremony 2001: View photos from the event.
• The Mathematics and Science Scholars Program (MS²) provides incoming first year mathematics and science students with unique opportunities. It is designed to increase the number of students who develop a strong foundation in mathematics and the sciences and wish to make teaching, research, or discovery a part of their life's work.
• QED UCLA Summer Program for Undergraduates, Sept. 2001 : Free program for math majors to develop the necessary skills to excel in upper division mathematics. Students improve study habits, test taking skills, and group study skills.

Summer 2000

• 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.

Spring 2000

• 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.

Winter 2000

• 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 .

Fall 1999

• Welcome new faculty members for 1999-2000: Regular Faculty: Dimitri Shlyakhtenko. Affiliated Appointment: William Zame. CAMs: Cameron Connell and Hailiang Liu. PIC: Norman Danner, David Kan, and Chris Pollett. Visiting: Enrique Andjel, Lucian Badescu, Andrea Brose, Philip Drazin, Shari Kaku, Edward Keppelman, Loong Kong, Ann-Karin Tornberg, Laszlo Zsido. Adjunct Professor: Mark Gyure. Hedricks: Skip Garibaldi, Alexander Holroyd, Yuan-Ping Lee. Postdocs: William Barvosa-Carter, Frank Grosse, and James Owen.
• The Faculty Retreat was held at Mays Landing on September 24, 1999.

• 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)

• 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.
• American Mathematical Society designated April as Mathematics Awareness Month with special emphasis on the Applications of Mathematics to Biology and Medicine. In this spirit, the UCLA Departments of Mathematics and Biomathematics presented a month long series of lectures by eminent scientists from Universities and Corporations:
  • Gene Mapping by Radiation Hybrids
    Professor Kenneth Lange of the Departments of Genetics and Biomathematics
  • How to Use Math and Physics to Image the Biology of Human Disease
    Michael Phelps, inventor of the Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
  • Making the Transition from the Physical to the Life Sciences
    Dr. John Quackenbush, Associate Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research
  • A Mathematical Tour of Biotechnology
    Dr. Polly Moore, Genentech Director of Biocomputing
  • What is Proteomics?
    David Eisenberg, UCLA Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 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)
• Angus Taylor: Former University of California Provost and UCLA Department of Mathematics Chair (1958-1964) died of cancer Tuesday afternoon (April 6) in Berkeley. He was 87. Taylor played a central leadership role in crises of the 1960s and 1970s.

• 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:
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• 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.
  

• New Faculty Members: Michael (Sun-Chin) Chu, Ivan Dimitrov, Michael Leonard, Gang Liu, Huazhang Luo, Michael Mossinghoff, Dario Nardi, Irina Popovici, Jackie (Jianhong) Shen, Terence Tao, Christoph Thiele, and John Westman.
• Homepages of UCLA Mathematics Ph.D. Alumni.
• Recipients of Fellowships and Dissertation Awards
• UCLA Mathematics Dept. Chair, Tony Chan, was featured in the newspaper article covering his speech, "Mathematics and You in the 21st Century."
• Chancellor Carnesale and top administrative leaders attended IPAM site visit at UCLA Mathematics Dept. on October 29th.
• September 28, 1998: Faculty Retreat at Mays' Landing in Malibu.

• Several UCLA Mathematicians were featured in the July 14th issue of the Los Angeles Times article, "Math Whizzes Want Respect in Equation." The column one, front page article included interviews with Tony Chan (dept. chair), Stanley Osher, Russel Caflisch, and Mark Green.
• UCLA Mathematics selected to host AMS 2000 Conference
• Mathematics Integral Part of Movie Equation
  The UCLA Mathematics Department hosted a series of lectures for the National Mathematics Awareness Week (MAW) celebrating Mathematics and Imaging."
  

• Virtual Mathematics Dept. Newsletter: the Spring 1998 issue covered:
  • ICM speakers and other prizes, awards, & honors
  • Math Awareness Week: Mathematics and Imaging
  • Lecture and book signing by K.C. Cole, the author of The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty.
  • 1998 Commencement