UCLA MATHEMATICS FACULTY HONORS & AWARDS
*denotes current Professor Emeritus status (retired faculty)

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIES

L. Carleson*
Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Corresponding member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, London, and Finnish Academy of Sciences.
H. Kreiss*
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
T. Liggett
Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
T. Martin
Fellow of the AAAS
Y. Moschovakis
Corresponding member of The Academy of Athens.
S. Osher
Member of the National Academy of Science
P. Roberts
Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Fellow of the American Geophysics Union. Member of the Academy of the Arts and Sciences.
L. Shapley*
Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
R. Steinberg*
Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
T. Tao
Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS

A. Bertozzi
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar, Argonne National Lab (1995-96)
R. Brown
Lester R. Ford Award for mathematical exposition (MAA, 1984).
L. Carleson*
Abel Prize (2006), Steel Prize for a research paper of fundamental and lasting importance (AMS, 1984). Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics (1992). Celsius Medal.
T. Chan
Elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2007)
T. Gamelin
Alexander von Humboldt Award (1986).
J. Garnett
Steele Prize (2003)
A. Hales*
Polya Prize in combinatorics (joint with Rothschild) (SIAM, 1973).
G. Hjorth
Karp Prize (ASL, 2003)
H. Hida
Spring Prize (Math. Soc. Japan, 1992).
R. Jennrich*
Best Article in Technometrics Award (1976).
C. Khare
Fermat Prize awarded to new faculty member (2007)
H. Kreiss*
Celsius Medal (1985). Forsythe Prize (1985). Public Service Medal (NASA, 1992). National Academy of the Sciences Award (2002).
G. Liu
AMS Centennial Fellowship (1997).
K. Liu 
Morningside Gold Medal of the Mathematics (2004)
D. Martin
Karp Prize (ASL, 1988).
A. Merkurjev
Alexander von Humboldt Award (1995).
S. Osher
Public Service Group Achievement Award (NASA, 1992), Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Mechanics Award (2003), ICIAM Pioneer Prize (SIAM 2003), Kleinman Prize (SIAM 2005). The United States Association for Computational Mechanics Award (2007).
R. Perez-Marco
European Math. Society (1996). Prox Peccot, College de France (1994). IBM Research Prize in Mathematics (1993).
P. Roberts
Fleming Medal of the Am. Geophys. Union (1999).
B. Rothschild
Polya Prize in combinatorics (joint with A. Hales) (SIAM, 1973).
Y. Shalom
Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union (2007)
L. Shapley*
von Neumann Prize in game theory and linear programming (SIAM, 1981).
D. Shlyakhtenko
Clay Math Institute Prize Fellow (2003)
R. Steinberg*
Steel Prize (1985).
M. Takesaki
Fujihara Prize (1990).
T. Tao
Packard Fellowship (1999-2000). Clay Math Institute Award (2000), Salem Prize (2000), Maxime Bocher Prize (2002), 2003 Clay Research Award, AMS Conant Prize (2005), Fields Medal (2006). Elected fellow of the Royal Society of London (2007), Fields Medal (2006), "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation (2006), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006), Ostrowski prize (2005), Waterman Award (2008).
C. Thiele
Salem Prize (1997). Dean’s Marshall Award (2000).
V. Varadarajan
Lars Onsager Medal (1998).

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS LECTURES

1962:
L. Carleson*
1966:
L. Carleson* (plenary), R. Steinberg*
1970:
M. Takesaki
1974:
H. Kreiss* (plenary), Y. Moschovakis, V. Varadarajan
1978:
R. Edwards (plenary), D. Gieseker, D. Martin
1983:
S. Y. Cheng*, G. Eskin
1986:
E. Effros, J. Garnett, T. Liggett, H. Hida, A. Merkurjev
1990:
L. Carleson*, S. Popa
1994:
S. Osher
1998:
M. Green, G. Hjorth, R. Schonmann, W. Duke
2002:
K. Liu, T. Tao, C. Thiele
2006:
R. Caflisch, N. Ozawa, I. Neeman, S. Popa (plenary), T. Tao (plenary)

HOUR PLENARY INVITED ADDRESS AT ANNUAL MEETING OF A MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY

A. Bertozzi
AMS-MAA joint meeting, 1999; 3rd SIAM Meeting on Materials Science, 2000; MPS Distinguished Lecture, NSF, 2002 , AMS_MAA joint meeting, 2005, SIAM Annual Meeting, 2006.
L. Carleson*
AMS, 1986
T. Chan
SIAM, 1989; Joint Math Meeting AMS/SIAM/MAA 2002; ICCM 2001
R. Edwards
AMS, 1978
E. Effros
AMS, 1982
T. Ferguson*
IMS, 1972
T. Gamelin
AMS Western Regional Meeting, 1971
J. Garnett
AMS, 1979
D. Gieseker
AMS, 1983
M. Green
AMS 2001
H.-O. Kreiss*
Second World Congress on Computational Mechanics, 1990
K.-C. Li
JASA, 1990
T. Liggett
Wald Lecture, 1996
K. Liu
ICCM, 2001
D. Martin
AMS, 1976; ASL, 1986; ALS (Gödel Lecture), 1994
A. Merkurjev
Eruopean Congress of Math, 1992 and 1996
Y. Moschovakis
AMS, 1984; ASL, 1986
S. Osher
SIAM, 1986
R. Perez-Marco
European Mathematical Congress, 1996
S. Popa
AMS Joint Math. Meetings, 1999
J. Ralston
AMS, 1978
M. Schacher
AMS, 1978
M. Takesaki
AMS, 1982
V.S. Varadarajan
AMS, 1966 and 1991
J. White
SIAM, 1990; Canadian Mathematical Congress, 1987
D. Ylvisaker*
IMS, 1984; Canadian Mathematical Congress, 1969

NSF/CBMSREGIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE LECTURERS

1978
1979
1974
1993
1981
2005
2004
R. Edwards
E. Effros
T. Ferguson*
S. Popa
M. Takesaki
T. Tao
C. Thiele

GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS

1982
1991
2008
1993
1997
2002
1989
1968
1995
1999
1973
E. Effros
H. Hida
C. Khare
K.-C. Li
T. Liggett
K. Liu
D. Martin
Y. Moschovakis
S. Popa
R. Schonmann
M. Takesaki

SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

1987
1995
1984
1977
1989
1990
1975
1976
1969
1976
1975
2006
1997
2004
2008
1973
1971
1991
1970
1972
2005
1997
1990
1974
1986
1973
2001
1999
2000
1967
2003
C. Anderson
A. Bertozzi
R. Caflisch
S.-Y. Cheng*
L. Chayes
W. Duke
R. Edwards
R. Elman
T. Gamelin
M. Green
R. Greene
M. Hitrick
G. Hjorth
R. Killip
I. Kim
T. Liggett
D. Martin
G. Mess
Y. Moschovakis
S. Osher
N. Ozawa
R. Perez-Marco
P. Petersen
J. Ralston
J. Rogawski
B. Rothschild
D. Shlyakhtenko
T. Tao
C. Thiele
V.S. Varadarajan
L. Vese

PRESIDENTIAL YOUNG INVESTIGATORS/NSF YOUNG INVESTIGATORS/FACULTY AWARDS FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/NSF CAREER AWARD

1987
1996
2001
1992
2000
C. Anderson
A. Bertozzi
I. Neeman
P. Petersen
C. Thiele

FACULTY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM SERIES

2006
Andrea Bertozzi
2004
William Duke

FACULTY CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD

2001
I. Neeman

HONARARY DEGREES

L. Carleson*
H.-O. Kreiss*
Y. Moschovakis
S. Osher
L. Shapley*
V.S. Varadarajan
U. Paris VI, 1988
ETH, 1998
DHC, Sofia U., Bulgaria, 2002; U. Athens, 1987
ENS de Cachan, 2006
Hebrew U., 1986
U. Genoa, 1992

HONORABLE PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Terence Tao
 
First endowed Chair in Mathematics (Jan. 2007) UCLA's James & Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters & Science.

DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARDS

UCLA faculty award:
R. Sorgenfrey*
(1963, the premiere year for this campus award)
R. Redheffer*
(1968)
K. Baker
(1973)
J. White
(1979)
J. Garnett
(1989)
C. Anderson
(2002)
UCLA lecturer award:
D. Cohen
(1986)
Southern California MAA Award:
D. Cohen
(1993)
UCLA Panhellenic Council Outstanding Professor commendation:
R. Brown
(1991)
UCLA Golden Circle Award for Undergraduate Teaching:
R. Brown
(1990)

OTHER RECOGNITION

A. Hales* Commencement Speaker at UC Berkeley (2001)
 


 


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