Announcements
2026
- UCSB professors honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Mathematics team ranks 14th in North America at 86th Putnam Competition
2025
- New research sheds light on the spread of viruses in air and water
- New mathematical insights into Lagrangian turbulence
- 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
Featured Events
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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.
Continue Reading AWM POWERS Day - Saturday, February 23, 2019Two UCSB Mathematics faculty members named AMS Fellows
Hector D. Ceniceros and Zhenghan Wang have been named as American Mathematical Society Fellows for 2019. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Hector and Zhenghan join 14 previously named fellows in the UC Santa Barbara Mathematics Department, including 4 Emeritus Professors and 10 (now 12) current faculty members.
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Machine Learning, for Science
Davit Harutyunyan Awarded Emil Artin Junior Prize
Harutyunyan was chosen for his paper “Gaussian Curvature as an Identifier of Shell Rigidity" which appeared in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (2017).
Continue Reading Davit Harutyunyan Awarded Emil Artin Junior PrizeGeometry and Analysis on Manifolds 2018
The Geometry and Analysis on Manifold conference (GAMSB18) will be held at the Department of Mathematics of University of California at Santa Barbara From May 4, 2018 to May 6, 2018. See the official announcement for more information.
Continue Reading Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds 2018RTG in Topology and Geometry to offer lectures by Gunther Uhlmann
This announcement has been updated. Please note the change in time and the addition of lecture locations.
The RTG in Topology and Geometry will be offering lectures by Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington, in February.
- February 14, 2018 - Flying A Studios Room, UCen - Lecture 1: "Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics"
- February 15, 2018 - Flying A Studios Room, UCen - Lecture 2: "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
- February 16, 2018 - Broida Hall 1640 - Lecture 3: "Seeing Through Space Time"
All lectures will run from 3:00 - 4:00 pm. For abstracts and other details, see the official announcement or the event poster.
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Nancy Scherich wins Dance Your Ph.D. contest
Nancy Scherich, a Ph.D. student in the Mathematics Department at UCSB, has won Science Magazine's annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest. Her entry illustrated her research into braid group theory through aerial interpretive dance. Click through to the complete article for a YouTube video of her performance. Congratulations, Nancy!
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