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November 9, 2015

Congratulations to Professor Ian Agol for winning the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics! The award is due to his "spectacular contributions to low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including work on the solutions of the tameness, virtual Haken and virtual fibering conjectures."

November 2, 2015

The Breakthrough Foundation Symposium will take place at Berkeley this year on Nov 9, with participation of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize winner and of our colleagues from Berkeley and Stanford.

October 18, 2015

As faculty of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department, we are committed to taking an active role in maintaining a safe and inclusive workplace, free of sexual harassment. We feel that the University procedures currently in place fail to protect our students from sexual harassment, and allow perpetrators to remain in positions of authority and trust on campus, with minimal sanctions. The recent case of Prof. Geoff Marcy serves to illustrate this failure. The ineffectiveness of the current system has had devastating consequences for students and other vulnerable community members. We ask the UC administration to work with faculty and students to develop a transparent process in which cases of harassment and assault can be reported and dealt with in an effective manner, with meaningful sanctions when warranted.

September 24, 2015

For more information, please visit New DOE Office of Science support for CAMERA to develop computational mathematics for experimental facilities research, Berkeley Lab Computing Science News.

September 21, 2015

On 26 August 2015, John Steel and Ronald Jensen were awarded the Hausdorff Medal of the European Set Theory Society at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge for their construction of the core model without the use of a measurable cardinal.

July 22, 2015

The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions, according to the website.

June 8, 2015

On Monday, June 29, 2015, Professor Bernd Sturmfels will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt. The announcement (in German) can be found here

April 14, 2015

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) selects James Demmel as the winner of 2014 the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for his work on numerical linear algebra libraries, including LAPACK (Linear Algebra Package), a standard software library that forms part of the standard mathematical libraries for many vendors. The award will be presented at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 20, 2015 in San Francisco.

March 20, 2015

The AWM-Microsoft Research Prize serves to highlight to the community outstanding contributions by women in the field and to advance the careers of the prize recipients. The prize will be presented at the AWM Reception and Prize Ceremony at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA, in January 2016.

March 3, 2015

Joseph A. Wolf was elected to Academia Nacional de Ciencias (National Academy of Science) in 2014. The investiture will take place in Cordoba, Argentina on April 17, 2015.

February 23, 2015

Three of our faculty members, Vivek Shende, Richard Bamler, and Lin Lin, have been selected as the 2015 Sloan Research Fellows by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships goes to US and Canadian researchers whose, according to the foundation, achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and the next generation of scientific leaders.

October 28, 2014

According to the inaugural U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings recently released, we rank first in 'Best Global Universities for Mathematics' and third in 'Best Global Universities'.

Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781-1840) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to many areas of mathematics including celestial mechanics, integration, probability theory, and mathematical physics. This exhibition includes original copies and facsimiles of some of Poisson's works as well as books and articles that illustrate Poisson's scientific influence, the judgments contemporaries made concerning his role in science, and some of the domains of mathematics and physics where his work has been further developed, making his name familiar to all researchers.

October 10, 2014

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck! Note that the QR exam is given only once per semester.

October 6, 2014

On Friday, October 3, UC Berkeley Mathematics Professor Emeriti Alexander Chorin and the late David Blackwell were selected as recipients of the National Medal of Science for their outstanding contributions to knowledge in their fields.

July 31, 2014

Alan Schoenfeld as again received a prestigious award, 2014 Mary P. Dolciani Award, recognizing his extraordinary contributions to mathematics teaching.

July 17, 2014

Please bring a photo ID with you to the exam. We will provide you with a pencil. Good luck!

Note that the QR exam is given only once per semester.

May 16, 2014

Prof. James Sethian is giving one of the monthly 2013-14 Distinguished NSF Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Science, Monday May 19:

2013-2014 NSF Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Sciences | National Science Foundation