Information for Prospective Students and Postdocs

  • Ph D students I get a number of inquiries every year from students wanting to work with me on a PhD. The policy of the UCLA Math Department is to admit students into the program and only to have students join a research group once they have passed the PhD qualifiers. Thus, if you want to apply to UCLA, you should follow the procedures outlined on our departmental web page regarding graduate admission. If you apply to the program and are interested in my research, please include that in your statement of purpose.
  • Graduate Fellowships US Citizens and Permanent Residents can apply for the following fellowships, most of which have application deadlines in the fall and winter.

    NSF

    Defense

    Hertz

    DOE

    A number of UCLA PhD students have these fellowships.

  • Postdocs We have a regular hiring season in which we anticipate hiring at least one CAM assistant professor (2 quarter course/year load) and also a PIC instructor (4-5 course/year load with emphasis on teaching computer programming). The math department has a web page for the regular positions - please consider applying for the CAM, PIC, and Adjunct positions and let me know directly if you are particularly interested in my research group.

    If you are a US citizen or permanent resident, you might consider applying for the NSF postdoctoral fellowship in the mathematical sciences and/or the UC Presidents Fellowship. Please have your thesis advisor contact me about this option if you have an interest. Typically one needs several months to put together the application since it requires a sponsoring faculty member. I currently sponsor David Uminsky as an NSF postdoctoral fellow and UC Presidents Fellow at UCLA.

  • Funded Research Projects Support for students and postdocs comes largely from federal research grants. To see list of my currently funded research projects, please go to the research page on my website.