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January 27, 2012

2011-2012 Bowen Lectures scheduled for February 27th, 28th and 29th, with Cédric Villani
Bowen Lectures presented by Cédric Villani (Université of Lyon and Institut Henri Poincaré)

January 25, 2012

2012 Chern Lectures scheduled for April 10th, 12th, 17th & 19th, with Jean Bourgain

For more information see http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/lectures/chern

January 9, 2012

William Arveson's Memorial: 2/19/12, at 2pm in the Faculty Club

Bill Arveson's Memorial will be held Sunday, February 19, at 2:00 pm, in the Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus.

November 30, 2011

Spring Quantitative Reasoning Exam Scheduled for January 18th, 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!

November 14, 2011

New Math Website is Here!
As of Monday, Nov. 14th, our new website is up. The old site will continue to exist for a time at http://oldweb.math.berkeley.edu but it will not be updated.

November 8, 2011

Math Commencement 2012

The Math Commencement will be held on Monday, May 14th, 2012, at 2pm in Zellerbach Auditorium.

October 5, 2011

First Smale Prize Awarded

The Smale Prize recognizes major achievements in furthering the understanding of the connections between mathematics and computation. The award is named after Stephen Smale who contributed greatly to this understanding and many other fields of mathematics as well as being key to the founding of the Society. The prize is awarded to a researcher having received a doctoral degree within the 10 years prior to the award.

March 9, 2011

Herbert Enderton Memorial Gathering
April 15, 2011, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, California You are invited to join us to celebrate Herbert’s life on April 15, his 75th birthday. The gathering will be in Berkeley, CA at the Berkeley City Club from 11 am to 3 pm. Lunch will be served.

October 29, 2010

2011 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics competition
Congratulations to Undergraduate Math Major Jie Geng! She has been selected to receive an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics competition.

October 27, 2010

2010 Paris-Berkeley-Bonn-Zurich Analysis Seminar
Professor Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine, will speak on "Eigenvalue statistics for matrices with dynamically defined entries" on November 10, 2010, at 127 Dwinelle Hall from 9-10 am.

October 25, 2010

2010 Chern-Simons Master-Class Series
Professor Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, will talk about Motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas on Monday through Friday of the week of November 1.