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
- 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
2003
2002
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Conference
on Complex and Harmonic Analysis honoring the 60th birthday of
John B. Garnett. December 8 and 9 at IPAM.
- 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.
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:
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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)
1999
- 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:
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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.
1998
- 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.
- 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."
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