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March 28, 2013

Congratulations to Berkeley's 2012 Putnam Competition Top Finishers!
Congratulations to Justin Ahmann, Dawei Ding, Yan Duan, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Woojin Kim, Shiyu Li, and Zhang Yuming for finishing in the top 200 (out of 4,277 contestants) in the 2012 Putnam Mathematical Competition held on December 1st. Special congratulations to Indraneel Kasmalkar for earning Honorable Mention honors.

March 1, 2013

Professor Emeritus Elwyn Berlekamp to deliver public lectures at Harvard (3/23/13) and Stanford (4/5/13)

Flyers for both of these lectures may be found in the "Aditional Files" section of Prof. Berklekamp's departmental webpage:

http://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/elwyn-r-berlekamp

January 14, 2013

The Mathematics Department Commencement will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Zellerbach Auditorium

More information can be found at http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/commencement

December 21, 2012

Ian Agol Receives 2013 AMS Veblen Prize
Ian Agol of the University of California, Berkeley, is receiving the 2013 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. The Veblen Prize is given every three years for an outstanding publication in geometry or topology that has appeared in the preceding six years. The prize will be awarded on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.

November 15, 2012

Thirty-three faculty members recognized as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

Thirty-three Berkeley faculty members and emeriti (more than any other institution) are part of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, recognized for their outstanding contributions to mathematics:

November 13, 2012

The 2012 Serge Lang Lecture to be given by John Baez of the University of California Riverside at 4:10 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
The 2012 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture will be given on Friday, November 16 at 4:10PM in room 105 Northgate on the Berkeley campus. Our lecturer this year is mathematical physicist John Baez.

November 9, 2012

2012 Department Newsletter Available

The Fall 2012 issue of the Department of Mathematics newsletter is available here

October 29, 2012

Spring Quantitative Reasoning Exam Scheduled for January 23rd, 2013 from 5:00-6:30pm in 939 Evans Hall

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

September 13, 2012

William Bade's Memorial: 10/6/12, at 1pm at the Pacific School of Religion Chapel

Bill Bade's memorial celebration will take place on Saturday, October 6, 2012 at the Pacific School of Religion Chapel and the Bade Museum, at 1pm.

May 19, 2012

Sophomore Shiyu Li places Honorable Mention in 2011 Putnam Competition

Congratulations to sophomore Shiyu Li for placing Honorable Mention in the 2011 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition!  She ranked in the top 50 out of 4,400 students from 572 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

May 4, 2012

Fall Quantitative Reasoning Exam Scheduled for August 29th, 2012 from 5:00-6:30pm in 939 Evans Hall

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

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

Bharath Ramsundar wins 2012 Departmental Citation

Congratulations to Bharath Ramsundar, winner of the 2012 Departmental Citation for Mathematics.  This recognition is bestowed on the top undergraduate mathematics scholar in the graduating class. The name of the citation winner will be placed with those of earlier winners on the Departmental Citation certificate in 1015 Evans.

March 26, 2012

Department Manager, Mary Pepple, wins Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award

The Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award acknowledges extraordinary achievement. Criteria include the following attributes:

Commitment to the University's Mission
Community Building
Diversity/Inclusion
Innovation
Leadership

March 8, 2012

Bernd Sturmfels awarded Sarlo Award for outstanding work as a graduate student mentor

The award will be presented at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 18, 2011, 4:00--6:00 in 775 Tan Hall.

March 7, 2012

Simons Fellowships awarded to Ian Agol, Theodore Slaman, and Daniel Tataru

The Simons Fellowship allows a faculty member to extend a semester of sabbatical to a full year, and thus extend their term of research. Congratulations Professors Agol, Slaman, and Tataru!

Lior Pachter has been awarded the first Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology

The new "Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology" will enable Professor Pachter to continue to build ties between the Departments of Mathematics, Biology, Statistics, and Computer Science. Congratulations Professor Pachter!

February 29, 2012

James Demmel and Olga Holtz win SIAG/LA best paper competition

Professors Demmel and Holtz's paper, "Minimizing communication in numerical linear algebra," which can be found in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 32: 866-901, 2011, is one of two winners of the SIAG/LA best paper competition.

February 23, 2012

Robert Saye and James Sethian win 2011 Cozzarelli Prize for the best scientific paper in Engineering and Applied Sciences

Press release is here

February 15, 2012

Alan Schoenfeld awarded highest international distinction in math education

Press release is here

January 31, 2012

2012 Alfred Tarski Lectures scheduled for February 21st, 22nd, and 24th, with Per Martin-Löf
THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ALFRED TARSKI LECTURES