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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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Recruitment: Visiting Assistant Professor

VISITING POSITIONS: One or more special one-year visiting assistant professorships may be available, with possibility of renewal for additional years, up to three years in total. These positions carry a teaching load of 4.5 one-quarter courses per year. Excellence in research, potential for interaction with faculty at UC Santa Barbara and evidence of (or potential for) good teaching are desired. Appointments to be effective July 1, 2020.

For the complete job posting and application instructions, see https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01611

Recruitment: Tenured Faculty Position: Algebra

The Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the level of Associate or Full Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020. The Department is looking for individuals with particular emphasis in the area of Algebra, broadly construed.

To read the job posting and apply, please visit https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01638.

Recruitment: Assistant Level Faculty Position – Data Science

The Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020.

The Department is looking for individuals with particular emphasis in the area of Data Science.

For more information and application instructions, see the job posting.

Ashlee Kalauli presented with Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Mathematics graduate student Ashlee Kalauli was presented with the Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the beginning of the Spring quarter. Congratulations Ashlee! A very well deserved award in recognition of Ashlee’s exceptional teaching skills.

Nancy Scherich takes top spot in UCSB Art of Science contest

Mathematics graduate student Nancy Scherich's modern dance video, "Math Dance 2," won first place in this year's Art of Science competition. Art of Science encourages members of the UCSB community to show the artistic side of their field of study, as a way of engaging the public in what can otherwise be esoteric topics. Scherich's video illustrates three different but interrelated Mathematics disciplines -- algebra, geometry, and topology. You can see the winning video, and learn about the runners-up, in The Current.

Xin Zhou receives Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship

Xin Zhou, an assistant professor in the UCSB Mathematics department, has received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This fellowship is awarded annually to researchers nominated by their peers for promising early-career achievements.

Zhou, whose research interests include differential geometry and general relativity, investigates the geometric properties of surfaces. His current research focuses on mathematical models for soap bubbles, which involve interesting differential geometry that also applies to the boundaries of black holes.

Colloquium: Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge)

Title: Nonlinear detection of connections

Time: 3:30 pm, February 21

Location: South Hall 6635

Abstract: I will discuss the geometric inverse problem of recovering a connection from the parallel transport along geodesics of a compact Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary or along light rays in Minkowski space. This problem is motivated by other geometric inverse problems and is tackled with a range of techniques including energy estimates, regularity results for the transport equation associated with the geodesic flow and microlocal analysis.

UCSB AWM (Association for Women in Math)

AWM POWERS Day - Saturday, February 23, 2019

All female middle school students and math teachers are invited to a free day of fun STEM activities at UCSB! The UCSB AWM (Association for Women in Math) Student Chapter is hosting POWERS Day (which stands for Problem sOlving for Women to Encourage Research in STEM). The activities will include fun seminars in physics, math, and statistics, lunch at the lagoon, and more! See the event website for more information, including a schedule and how to apply.