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Math Department News Archive

1999

  • Tsunami out of the Computer (Sept)
    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
  • Schonmann awarded Guggenheim (May)
    Professor Roberto Schonmann was among six UCLA researchers awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 1999.
  • Osher featured in Science News article (Apr)
    Applied Mathematician, Stanley Osher was featured in the recent Science News article, "Computing at the Edge." The article explores the level-set approach for modeling complex behavior at interfaces.
  • 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]
  • "1999 Innovators" (Jan)
    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.
  • 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:
    [notice0399.ps] | [notice0399.pdf]
  • 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.

 

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

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:
    [notice0399.ps] | [notice0399.pdf]
  • 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



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