The UCSB Mathematics Department wishes to congratulate James M^cKernan, currently on leave at MIT, on his joint award with Christopher Hacon of the University of Utah. Details can be found on the AMS website.

The UCSB Mathematics Department wishes to congratulate Dos Pueblos High School seniors Angela Dai, Caroline Kim, and John Kim for being awarded second place at the International Shing-Tung Yau High School Mathematics Awards competition in Beijing. The three Dos Pueblos High School team members were recognized for their study on invertibility probability of binary matrices and were mentored by Math Faculty member Dr. Guofang Wei.

Dr. Shing-Tung Yau, John Kim, Angela Dai, and Caroline Kim
Congratulations!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Paolo Cascini for being awarded a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship! Information about the award is available at http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowship_brochure.shtml. A list of all 2008 awardees is available at http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowshiplist.shtml.

The International Conference on Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds will take place at UCSB March 14-20, 2008. Click here for more information.

Congratulations to Carlos Garcia-Cervera on his NSF Career Award for his proposal
"Multilevel Physics in the Study of Solids: Modeling, Analysis and Simulations".

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Congratulations to James M^cKernan and Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) for being jointly honored with a Clay Research Award :

"For their work in advancing our understanding of the birational geometry of algebraic varieties in dimension greater than three, in particular, for their inductive proof of the existence of flips."

2007 Clay Research Awards Announced.

Congratulations to Sergei Gukov for being awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.