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POWERS 2017: Problem Solving for Women to Encourage Research in STEM

April 22nd -- A day full of fun activities for female high-school students.

The UCSB AWM (Association of Women in Math) student chapter is organizing a full day of activities for female high-school students in the Ventura-Santa Barbara-Santa Maria area. The activities will include a panel with UCSB undergraduate and graduate students in different STEM areas, a talk by a female mathematician, fun seminars led by female scientists, a problem solving competition, lunch at the lagoon, and more.

Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds Conference 2017

The Geometry and Analysis on Manifold conference (GAMSB17) will be held at the Department of Mathematics of University of California at Santa Barbara From April 7, 2017 to April 9, 2017. The lectures will be held in South Hall 6635.

Graduate students, fresh Ph.D.s and under-represented minorities are especially encouraged to join our meeting. Partial financial support is available.

The conference is supported by the Research Training Groups (RTG) in Topology and Geometry funded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and College of Letter and Science, University of California at Santa Barbara.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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