- Computer program teaches PIC class about artificial intelligence (Nov)
TEACHING: Truman learns from human interaction, displays sense of humor, even range of emotions
By Jessica Chung
Daily Bruin, November 29, 2001
Bruin article features Program in Computing Professor, Dario Nardi: "A computer program named Truman lectured before Dario Nardi's PIC class, demonstrating the abilities of artificial intelligence."
- Surprisingly Square (Jun)
"Mathematicians take a fresh look at expressing numbers as the sums of squares"
by Ivars Peterson
Science News, June 16, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 24
The article describes research done by UCLA Math Alumni, Ken Ono (PhD, '93).
The June 16, 2001 issue of Science News includes an article by Ivars Peterson about the recent works of Stephen Milne (Ohio State University), Don Zagier (Max Planck, Bonn) and Ken Ono (University of Wisconsin, UCLA PhD 1993) in Number Theory. Their works concern the representations of integers as sums of squares, a venerable area where researchers had made little progress in recent decades. These mathematicians have come up with long sought after formulas for the number of representations of integers as sums of squares.
- Linear Algebra to Quantum Cohomology: The Story of Alfred Horn's Inequalities (Apr)
by Rajendra Bhatia
American Mathematical Monthly April 2001
Math Dept Faculty Members, Terence Tao and Alfred Horn are featured in this article.
"A long-standing problem in linear algebra--Alfred Horn's conjecture on eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices--has been solved recently. The solution appeared in two papers, one by Alexander Klyachko in 1998 and the other by Allen Knutson and Terence Tao in 1999. This has been followed by a flurry of activity that has brought to the mathematical centre-stage what for many years had been somewhat of a side-show. The aim of this article is to describe the problem, its origins, some of the early work on it, and some ideas that have gone into its solution."
- Alfred Horn, Palisadian Since 1954 and Noted UCLA Math Professor
Palisades Post, April 2001
"Alfred Horn, a professor of mathematics at UCLA from 1947 until his retirement in 1988, died at home in Pacific Palisades on April 16, 2001. Professor Horn published 35 papers during his career, mostly in the areas of lattice theory and universal algebra. Among the highlights of his research is a 1962 paper on linear algebra titled "Eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices," in which he makes a conjecture, the last step of which he lived to see proved by another UCLA mathematician (Terence Tao) in 1998. His papers leap from one area of mathematics to another, so it is difficult to judge his contribution by the simple number of papers he published. He will probably be most remembered for another paper titled "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras," published in 1951. This paper describes Horn sentences and Horn
- Mathematicians are in short supply in the United States. (Apr) [PDF File]
by Potter Wickware
NatureJobs, August 9, 2001
Article features IPAM and Tony Chan. Excerpt from the article:
"The newest NSF-supported maths centre, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, opened its doors this year with a five-year budget from the NSF of $12.5 million. According to its director, Tony Chan, the institute aims to bring mathematics to new problems in the sciences. Recent programmes have been concerned with functional genomics, stochastic processes in biology and modelling of crystallization. Programmes in finance and economics focus on risk management, arbitrage, derivatives pricing in energy markets and catastrophe insurance. A third area of interest is the mathematics of image processing."
- 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.
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