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Congratulations, Elyas Gharavi, and August Noe, winners of our Mathematics Awards for 2025 ! We applaud their accomplishments in the major. We are honored to celebrate their hard work and to be able to present them each with this year’s J.W.T. Youngs Memorial Undergraduate Award in Mathematics. We wish them all success in their future…

Lecturer Bob Hingtgen will receive the 2024-25 Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Ron Ruby Award. You can read more about the award, and other recipients, at this UCSC Academic Senate page. LINK : (full UCSC News article) [pending] LINK : Previous MATH winner (includes a brief explanation of what the Ron Ruby…

by mbbrumm We’re getting close to the initial (test) release of our new website. As designed by BarrettoCo, with thoughts from Science Division, input from the Math Department, and considerable development by yours truly, the wholly reworked site will debut (at least as a beta test) some time in June or July of 2025. It…

By Pedro MoralesAssociate Dean of DEI, ScienceAssociate Teaching Professor, Mathematics In December 2024, 11 UCSC students participated in the Putnam exam. This is an undergraduate mathematics exam held in the US and Canada where thousands of students compete in topics such as calculus, linear algebra, modern algebra, real analysis, geometry, and others.  This year, 3,988 students…

UCSC undergrad contributes final piece to answer Mathematicians and the general public alike have been fascinated by the complexity generated by the apparently simple rule set of Conway’s Game of Life. Now a UCSC undergraduate has contributed to answering an intriguing question about the nature of the game, and how its rules sometimes produce endless…

Chongying Dong, distinguished professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, is among 41 mathematical scientists around the world who were recently named to the American Mathematical Society’s class of fellows for 2025. Fellows are recognized by their peers for having made “outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics,” the organization…

This cohort of instructors and scholars will focus on applications of Data Science to different fields, both STEM and non-STEM. It is part of our ongoing project to support Data Science collaborations. It will meet roughly every other week between October 2024 and May 2025, in a hybrid mode. LINK (webpage) : EDGE-DS Interdisciplinary Fellows

Sophie Aiken, graduate student, Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz, has been named an ARCS scholar for 2024/5. The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation (ARCS) awards these scholarships to students who have a record of past achievement and show exceptional promise of making a significant contribution to the scientific and technological strength of the country. [Read…

In a rare occurrence, 2 grad students have received full-year Dissertation Fellowships! By an astonishing coincidence, they are both Mathematics PhD candidates. Please join us in congratulating Deewang Bhamidipati and Sam K. Miller on this amazing achievement ! What’s a Dissertation Year Fellowship ? Each year, the Science Division will receive one Presidential Dissertation-Year Fellowship…

Kasia Jankiewicz, assistant professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in its School of Mathematics for the 2024-25 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research, and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one…

The Department recognizes and appreciates the hard work and dedication of all our Teaching Assistants. We are honored to celebrate the especially outstanding performance of some of them each year, and to be able to present them with this award. We are happy to announce *two* Outstanding TA Award recipients for the 23-24 academic year…

Pedro has won the 2023-24 Excellence in Teaching Award and the Ron Ruby Award Each year, the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching (COT) selects faculty to receive Excellence in Teaching Awards. The award, launched in 1996, highlights the university’s long tradition of innovative and creative teaching, and honors UC Santa Cruz instructors who have demonstrated exemplary and…