Announcements
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
Featured Events
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Special Day in Geometry at UCSB, Feb 17, 2017
Featuring talks by Christopher Connell, Indiana University, Bloomington; Raquel Perales, Institute of Mathematics, UNAM; and Pablo Surez Serrato, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
South Hall 6635 at 10:30 AM, Friday, February 17.
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UCSB Math Summer Research Program accepting applications
If you are an undergraduate student and you like to work on challenging problems, come and do research with our faculty on some exciting mathematical problems next summer! For a full description of our program and for information on how to apply, please visit math.ucsb.edu/REU. Applications are due February 5th, and the program runs from July 26 to August 18, 2017.
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SIAM Introductory Programming Tutorial
UCSB’s SIAM chapter will be hosting an introductory programming tutorial. Beginning with a step by step lesson teaching participants how to download and install python, the tutorial will culminate with an increasingly difficult set of mathematical problems to solve using python.
Location and Time: Noon on Saturday January 14, 2017 in South Hall 1607 (The Math Lab)
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KI-Net Conference
October 31 - November 3, 2016
This interdisciplinary workshop at UCSB will bring together experts working on mean-field theory and multiscale methods, focusing on the applications in physical and biological systems.
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Yitang Zhang wins Qiu Shi outstanding scientist award
Zhang Yitang, a number theorist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Peng Shige, a financial mathematician with Shandong University in Jinan, won the Qiu Shi outstanding scientist award. Each received a grant of one million yuan (HK$1.16 million) at a ceremony at Peking University on Saturday.

This Soliton is About You
UC Santa Barbara mathematics professor Bjorn Birnir and colleagues discover a model for angiogenesis
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David Morrison Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The selection of a UCSB mathematics professor brings to 34 the number of UCSB faculty that belong to the academy
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