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| Ostrowski Prize Awarded to Sorin Popa |
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UCLA Mathematics professor and chair Sorin Popa was awarded the 2009 Ostrowski Prize for his striking work in von Neumann algebras and orbit equivalence ergodic theory. Since 1989, the prize has been awarded every two years for outstanding recent achievements in pure mathematics and the theoretical foundations of numerical analysis by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands. UCLA Math professor Terence Tao received the award in 2005.
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| UCLA Math PhD Awarded Clay Research Fellowship |
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The Clay Mathematics Institute has appointed UCLA Mathematics 2010 PhD Tim Austin to a five year Clay Research Fellowship beginning July 1. Austin will receive his PhD in June of this year. His thesis, “Pleasant extensions for nonconventional ergodic averages” (working title), was carried out under the supervision of UCLA Math professor Terence Tao. Clay Research Fellows are selected for their research achievements and their potential to become leaders in research mathematics. Past UCLA Math recipients include Adrian Ioana, Ciprian Manolescu, and Terence Tao.
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| UCLA Mathematicians and Anthropologist Team Up to Fight Crime |
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UCLA Math professor and director of applied mathematics Andrea Bertozzi, and assistant adjunct professor of mathematics Martin Short have collaborated with UCLA associate professor of anthropology Jeffrey Brantingham and George Tita (UC Irvine) to apply sophisticated math to urban crime patterns to determine which types of crime “hotspots” in Los Angeles are most likely to be affected by intensified police actions. Their work on crime hotspots appeared this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and will be the cover article of the March 2 print edition.
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| Monica Visan Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship |
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded UCLA Mathematics Assistant Professor Monica Visan a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics. Established in 1955, the two-year fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Visan, who joined UCLA Math in 2009, is one of the top young researchers in the field of nonlinear Schrödinger equations and has made significant progress towards one of the major open problems in her field of interest, the global regularity and well-posedness problem for the mass-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Visan is one of five UCLA 2010 Sloan fellowship recipients.
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| UCLA Math Logicians Awarded 2009 Sacks Prize |
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The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) has awarded UCLA Mathematics Assistant Adjunct Professors Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan the prestigious 2009 Sacks Prize for best dissertations in logic worldwide. For Goldbring’s thesis, “Nonstandard Methods in Lie Theory,” ASL notes that he applies model theory to a fundamental problem from topological group theory and that the main result replaces an incorrect proof in a widely cited paper from 1957 using totally new ideas. Sargsyan’s thesis, “A Tale of Hybrid Mice” is noted for having “uncountably many new ideas.” The work addresses a central conjecture of inner model theory, resolving it in settings that were previously completely beyond reach, and upending conventional wisdom on the strength of determinacy hypotheses. The annual Sacks Prize was established to honor Professor Gerald Sacks of MIT and Harvard for his unique contribution to mathematical logic, particularly as adviser to a large number of outstanding PhD students. Previous UCLA Math Sacks prize recipients include Professors Gregory Hjorth (1994), Itay Neeman (1996, joint) and Matthias Aschenbrenner (2001), and 2008 PhD Inessa Epstein (2008).
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| Sorin Popa Receives 2010 AMS Moore Prize |
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UCLA Mathematics professor and chair Sorin Popa has been named the recipient of the 2010 American Mathematical Society (AMS) E. H. Moore Research Article Prize. Popa is honored for his paper, “On the Superrigidity of Malleable Actions with Spectral Gap,” which “represents a major breakthrough in the author’s remarkable program concerning von Neumann rigidity, orbit equivalence, and strong rigidity of ergodic measure preserving actions of countable groups.” Experts in this area commented that Popa’s work “completely changed the landscape of operator algebras.” The prize is awarded every three years for an outstanding research article that appeared in the past six years in one of the primary AMS research journals.
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| Terence Tao Awarded 2010 King Faisal International Prize for Science |
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UCLA Mathematics Professor Terence Tao has been named co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science (mathematics). Tao is noted for “his highly original solutions of very difficult and important problems and for his technical brilliance in the use of the necessary mathematical machinery.” The King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 in honor of the late King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz of Saudia Arabia. The international awards encompass five prize categories, including science, which was added in 1982 and covers physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.
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| Alfred Hales Elected as 2009 AAAS Fellow |
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In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected UCLA Mathematics Professor Emeritus Alfred Hales to the rank of AAAS Fellow. Each year the council elects members whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.” In the section on mathematics, Hales has been honored for his contributions in algebra and combinatorics, the Hales-Jewett Theorem, characterization of infinite abelian groups by Ulm invariants, and service as UCLA Math department chair and director of the Institute for Defense Analyses Center for Communications Research. “Triple A-S” is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science worldwide and publishes the journal Science, the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world.
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| UCLA Math Faculty Assume Leadership Positions in AMS 2009 Election |
Mark Green |
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The membership of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has elected UCLA Mathematics professor and IPAM Director Emeritus Mark Green to a five year term to serve on its Board of Trustees. Professor and outgoing department chair Christoph Thiele was elected as a member at large of the Council of the AMS for a three year term. Green and Thiele begin their terms February 1, 2010.
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| UCLA Math Seeks Exceptional Student for Undergraduate Scholarship |
UCLA Mathematics has launched a new scholarship to be granted to an entering freshman who has an exceptional background and promise in mathematics. The UCLA Math Undergraduate Merit Scholarship provides for full tuition, and a room and board allowance. To be considered for fall 2010, candidates must apply on or before November 30, 2009.
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| UCLA Math Fall 2009 Newsletter Available Online |
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| Simons Foundation Awards Two Postdoctoral Fellowships to UCLA Math |
The Simons Foundation has chosen UCLA Math to host two prestigious Simons Postdoctoral Fellows in mathematics as part of its new program to provide 68 postdoctoral positions in the fields of mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The department fellowships are three-year positions with the first fellow to be appointed in the fall of 2010 and a second fellow to be appointed in the fall of 2011. UCLA Math was selected by a committee of distinguished scientists for its dynamic research environment that meets the foundation’s goal of providing the best possible postdoctoral training to a group of the strongest graduating PhDs. Fellowships will be granted to exceptional candidates who receive their PhD in the academic year preceding the year in which they would become fellows. More information and application details about the Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship program at UCLA is available at www.mathjobs.org.
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