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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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Two 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.

Machine Learning, for Science

UC Santa Barbara will collaborate on a Department of Energy research center adapting machine learning for use in scientific research.

View the complete news release in The Current.

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).

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Geometry 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.

RTG 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.

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!

Yitang Zhang wins award from AAEOY program

Professor Yitang Zhang has been recognized with a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) 2018 Award program.

This award is used to honour persons who serve as role models and a source of inspiration for Asian American engineers and scientists. Previous Distinguished Award recipients (a total of 35 in the last fifteen years) include Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Manjul Bhargava 2014 Fields Medalist and Dr. Henry Yang, our chancellor.

Announcing a new Endowed Scholarship in Mathematics

The department is delighted to announce a very generous contribution from David Hyde. David received his B.S. in Mathematics from UCSB and attributes much of his professional and personal success to his experiences as a math major. While at UCSB, David completed a math research project on knot theory and enjoyed a number of math courses, including the graph theory and abstract algebra sequences. David is grateful for the mentorship, teaching, and research opportunities provided by the department, and he's very excited to help support the next generation of UCSB mathematicians with a scholarship, the details of which will be announced soon.