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April 23, 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Kelli Talaska and Dr. Alexander Paulin for receiving UC Berkeley’s Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award

The award, established in 2020 by The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching, is presented to UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and student instructors in recognition of the embraced challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and engaged in or supported excellent teaching. These instructors and staff used innovative methods and worked beyond their traditional roles to ensure that students remained engaged and supported, and were challenged to do meaningful work under extraordinary circumstances.

April 8, 2021

Professor Alan Hammond has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Congratulations!

Alan Hammond, Professor, University of California, Berkeley has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Dr. Hammond received the award for making major advances in two of the most difficult and deepest questions of modern probability arising from central questions of statistical physics, and for substantial progress on rigorous study of self-avoiding walk. 

March 31, 2021

The Department of Mathematics condemns anti-Asian violence, racism, discrimination, and hate. We encourage you to explore the resources collected below to learn how to support our AAPI community and each other

The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO Resource Guide on Anti-Asian Violence

For students, find where to get support and make a report

March 4, 2021

March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we invite you to learn more about the experiences and contributions of women to mathematics

March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we encourage you to take some time to learn more about the experiences and contributions of women to mathematics. To get you started, check out the stories, links, posters, and resources we've collected. We'll be adding more content later this month, including a page dedicated to profiles of UC Berkeley women in mathematics so keep an eye out for our next announcement. 

March 1, 2021

Congratulations to Eunice Sukarto named runner-up for 2021 Alice T. Schafer Prize

Congratulations to Undergraduate Math Major Eunice Sukarto!

February 8, 2021

February is Black History Month and to celebrate we encourage you to explore this collection of virtual activities, events, and recommended readings with us as we join together to honor all African Americans
  • UC Berkeley's Black Staff & Faculty Organization is hosting two separate film and discussion sessions during February. To learn more and register go here.

January 21, 2021

Congratulations to Professor Nikhil Srivastava for receiving the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize
Congratulations to Professor Nikhil Srivastava, who jointly with Adam Marcus, EPFL, and Daniel Spielman, Yale University, won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize of the National Academy of Sciences for their breakthrough works on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs, and the underlying theory that leads to new connections between computer science, mathematics and physics.

December 3, 2020

2020 Department Newsletter Available!

Season's greetings from the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics! Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, we are happy to share our 2020 departmental newsletter with you. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year ahead.

November 30, 2020

Professor Lin Lin and Dr. Weile Jia (postdoctoral scholar 2016-2020), and collaborators won the 2020 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize. Congratulations!
Professor Lin Lin and Dr. Weile Jia (postdoctoral scholar 2016-2020), and collaborators (Weile Jia, University of California, Berkeley; Han Wang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing, China); Mohan Chen, Peking University; Denghui Lu, Peking University; Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Roberto Car, Princeton University; Weinan E, Princeton University; and Linfeng Zhang, Princeton University) won the 2020 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize. The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

November 2, 2020

Prof. Michael Christ, as well as Lionel Levine (PhD 2007), Anthony Varilly-Alvarado (PhD 2009) and Bianca Viray (PhD 2010), named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Congratulations!

Professor Michael Christ has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021 Class) for contributions to harmonic and complex analysis, and linear partial differential equations.

Lionel Levine, 2007 PhD graduate, of Cornell University has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021 Class) for contributions to research and exposition in probability theory and combinatorics. 

September 10, 2020

Song Sun has been awarded a 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Song Sun who has been awarded a 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation! This award was given for Professor Sun's "many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities."

June 22, 2020

Anna Seigal, 2019 PhD graduate, has been awarded the 2020 Richard C. DiPrima Prize. Congratulations!
Our 2019 PhD graduate, Anna Seigal, has been awarded the 2020 Richard C. DiPrima Prize. The Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded every two years to one early career researcher who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics and who has completed his/her doctoral dissertation and completed all other requirements for his/her doctorate.

June 10, 2020

#Strike4BlackLives, #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia - Wednesday, June 10th is a national day of action to end global anti-blackness and advocate for change

#Strike4BlackLives, #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia - Wednesday, June 10th is a national day of action to end global anti-blackness and advocate for change.  Click on the hashtag links above to find out how to participate, advocate, and change.  "Our responsibility starts with our role in society." - #ShutDownSTEM

April 3, 2020

Alexander Paulin has been awarded 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Congratulations!
Our faculty member, Alexander Paulin, has been selected as a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award winner. Four UC Berkeley faculty have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.

February 13, 2020

Sung-Jin Oh awarded 2020 Sloan Reseach Fellowship. Congratulations!
Our faculty member, Sung-Jin Oh, has been selected as a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow 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.

December 17, 2019

Spring 2020 Quantitative Reasoning Exam will be held Wed. Jan. 22nd from 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall

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

December 12, 2019

2019 Department Newsletter Available!

Season's greetings from the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics! Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, we are happy to share our 2019 departmental newsletter with you. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year ahead.

November 1, 2019

Professor Suncica Canic named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Congratulations!
Professor Suncica Canic has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2020 Class) for contributions to partial differential equations, and for mathematical modeling of fluid-structure interactions that has influenced the design of medical devices.

October 28, 2019

Congratulations to Professor David Eisenbud for receiving the 2020 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service!
Professor Eisenbud will be presented the 2020 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service on January 16, 2020 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, for his exceptional leadership and outreach efforts while director of MSRI, president of the AMS, and director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Simons Foundation.

May 20, 2019

Congratulations to Chris Shannon (the Richard and Lisa Steiny Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics) for her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

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