Welcome to the website of the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. You can learn here about the people and activities which make our department an exceptional place to study, teach, and do research.
We hope that you will find this site useful whether you are currently in Berkeley, planning (or hoping) to come here, or simply want information about our activities and publications. Please follow the links in the column at the left. If you can't find what you're looking for, you may send questions to our "virtual front office" at , come to 970 Evans Hall, or call 1-510-642-6550.
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Alan Weinstein, Chair
Announcements
Math 55: Discrete Mathematics
Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics) has been added as a new lower-division requirement for the Mathematics and Applied Mathematics majors. It will be required for all students declaring the major beginning Spring 2009, with the exception of transfer students. For transfer students it will be required beginning Fall 2010.
New Semi-Electives Choices for Pure Math Undergraduates
Math 143 (Elementary Algebraic Geometry) and Math 136 (Incompleteness and Undecidability) are new courses being offered which can satisfy semi-electives for Pure Math Undergraduates.
Olga Holtz Receives European Mathematical Society Prize
Our colleague, Olga Holtz, has been awarded one of the ten European Mathematical Society Prizes for 2008 at the meeting of the EMS in Amsterdam. You can read about her work, as well as that of the other prize winners, at http://smf.emath.fr/PrixDistinctions/PrizewinnersbookEMS2008.pdf
It will be held Monday, August 18, and Tuesday, August 19, 2008, from 9 am to 12 noon each day, in 60 Evans Hall. Please sign up for the exam in 910 Evans Hall.
Quantitative Reasoning Exam
The Quantitative Reasoning Exam (QR) will be given on Wednesday, August 27th, 5-6:30pm in 939 Evans. Please bring a photo ID.
