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2025

UCSB ranks fifth in prestigious Putnam Math Competition
Goldwater Scholarship Awards: Pico Gilman (CCS Math) was one of four that were awarded the very prestigious 2025 Goldwater scholarship.
Mychelle Parker has won the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding TA Award in 2025

Colloquia, Conferences, and Seminars

Applied Mathematics/PDE/DS Seminars -- Fridays 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. -- SH 4607 or Zoom
Differential Geometry Seminar, Fridays 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., SH 6635 or Zoom (check the link for details)
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar , Wednesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. SH 4607B
Geometry, Topology and Physics, Fridays 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm SH 6635
Graduate Algebra Seminar, Fridays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., SH 6617
Graduate Student Seminar, Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. SH 4607
Graduate Topology Seminar, Tuesdays 11 am SH 6617
Hypatian Seminar, Mondays 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. SH 6635
Mathematics Colloquium , Thursdays 3:30 p.m. -5:00 p.m. Rm. 6635
Quantum Topology Seminar, Wednesdays 11 a.m. SH 6635
Seminar on Geometry and Arithmetic, Thursday 4:30pm-6pm, SH 6635
Teaching & Learning Seminar, Thursdays 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., SH 4607

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Associate Professor Xin Zhou to speak at 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians

Congratulations to our Associate Professor, Xin Zhou, who is a invited speaker for the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at St. Petersburg, Russia. The ICM is held every four years, equivalent to the Olympics for mathematics.

Prof. Zhou graduated from Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Rick Schoen in 2013. He joined UCSB after three years at MIT as a Moore Instructor. Prof. Zhou has made significant contributions in minimal surfaces and variational problems. His recent work has resolved the Multiplicity One conjecture in the min-max theory of minimal surfaces. He has also established the existence theory of constant mean curvature surfaces and the existence theory of minimal surfaces with free boundary. His other honors include the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF Career Award.

See this link for the official announcement:

https://icm2022.org/sections/section-5-geometry#Xin-Zhou

UCSB Math Prof. Björn Birnir models COVID-19 transmission in confined spaces

The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an important research subject for public health. It is now known that airflow plays a large role in transmitting Covid-19. Professor Björn Birnir, Director of the Center for Complex, Nonlinear and Data Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), studied how airflow transmits COVID-19 in confined spaces. He created a model that predicts transmission rates in any given public space. The results can be used to alter real-life spaces to reduce COVID-19 infection rates.

2021 Commencement Video

Congratulations to the Class of 2021, and all our award-winning students and faculty!

Ruimeng Hu receives Faculty Career Develoment Award

The Mathematics Department congratulates Assistant Professor Ruimeng Hu on receiving the Faculty Career Development Award. This award, presented by the UCSB Academic Personnel Office, supports non-tenured faculty who, because of the nature of their position or their role in campus affairs, have encountered significant obstacles in pursuit of their research, creative work, teaching, service, or mentoring obligations, or who have made unusually time consuming efforts in helping to achieve campus diversity. Ruimeng Hu's research focuses on machine learning and game theory.

Sui Tang receives Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship Award

The Mathematics Department congratulates Assistant Professor Sui Tang on receiving the Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship Award. This award, presented by the UCSB Academic Personnel Office, helps eligible junior faculty develop a substantial record in research and creative work necessary for advancement to tenure. Sui Tang's research focuses on machine learning and signal processing.

University of California Santa Barbara ranked #26 on Study.com's Best Bachelor's in Math Degree Programs

Award Date: March 16, 2021

Study.com has published its 2021 rankings and the University of California Santa Barbara has been ranked #26 on their list Best Bachlor's in Math Degree Programs. You can view the list here.

Affiliated faculty member Igor Mezić wins J.D. Crawford Prize

For his pioneering development of a mathematical theory that has enabled solutions for previously intractable problems, UC Santa Barbara’s Igor Mezić has received the biennial J. D. Crawford Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (SIAG/DS). Read more about it in The Current.

Scholars of Outstanding Promise

Three junior faculty members at UC Santa Barbara are selected for fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation -- Sung Soo Kim, Fedor Manin and Timothy Brandt.

View the complete news release at: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2021/020180/scholars-outstanding-promise