Welcome to the Department of Mathematics

Welcome to the homepage of the UC Santa Barbara Mathematics Department.  We hope that this website provides you with the information you need and conveys some of the many interesting and exciting activities going on around the department.

The Department of Mathematics serves the UCSB campus by providing service courses for students taking mathematics as a requirement for a non-math major, a full list of upper division courses for our math majors and a wide variety of graduate courses that bring our graduate students closer and closer to the cutting edge research of our top-notch permanent faculty who have received numerous honors and awards.

To give you a sense of scale, the Mathematics Department has more than three dozen faculty members working in subfields that cover a broad spectrum of modern mathematics, half-a-dozen visiting assistant professors, more than 60 graduate students and over 1,300 math majors and pre-majors.

With that, I invite you to browse our website and learn more about the department.  Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Stephen Bigelow
Professor and Chair

Announcements

The Mathematics Department congratulates Assistant Professor Sui Tang on receiving an NSF CAREER Award. The CAREER award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

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  2. CAREER

Math Department faculty member, Professor Xianzhe Dai, was named to the 2024 class of American Mathematical Society fellows. Congratulations Xianzhe!

The Fellows of the AMS program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. According to AMS President Bryna Kra, "This year's class was selected from a large and excellent pool of candidates, highlighting the many ways in which our profession is advanced."

For more about the AMS fellows program and the full list of 2024 fellows, see here.

  1. Award
  2. AMS

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Graduate Study

Interested in discovering graduate opportunities at UCSB? The graduate program at UCSB offers students a broad foundation in mathematics while allowing the flexibility to explore interdisciplinary research.

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Undergraduate Study

Are you a current or prospective student interested in pursuing Mathematics? The Department of Mathematics at UCSB has 5 different majors and 2 minors for those with a passion for Mathematics. Browse through our website to see what the UCSB Mathematics Department can offer you.

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