The Simons Foundation has awarded a $5 million targeted grant for a project called “Moiré Materials Magic” to a group of physicists and mathematicians that includes Distinguished Professor Svetlana Jitomirskaya of the UCI Department of... more
Asaf Ferber and Connor Mooney have both received an NSF CAREER award and Sloan Fellowships.
Details of the awards are given on the School of Physical Sciences website at https://ps.uci.edu/news/2589... more
Alessandra Pantano and Li-Sheng Tseng have received support from UC Links and the CLA Foundation totaling $35K to support the Math CEO outreach program for underserved youths in Orange County. They also received a $50K grant from the Nicholas... more
Bob Pelayo has recently been PI or Co-PI on three successful grant proposals. He's the lead PI on BioCalculus Preparation, Engagement, and Application (BioCalc PEA) Program ($1.4M.) He's a Co-PI, with lead PI Babak Shahbaba in UCI’s Statistics... more
On June 22 Matt Foreman will give the 32nd Godel Lecture of the Association of Symbolic Logic
(see here: http://aslonline... more
Professor Jitomirskaya has been invited to give a plenary talk at the ICM to be held July 6-14 in St. Petersburg. Here's a link to the announcement:
Professor Asaf Ferber produces another breakthrough result on graph theory featured in a Quanta article:
Bob Pelayo has been awarded the UCI Celebration of Teaching 2021 - Excellence in Pedagogical Development award.
There's a nice Youtube video announcing this award here:
Qing Nie and Jack Xin have been named SIAM Fellows. Qing was cited for his research and mentoring contributions spanning applied and computational mathematics and developmental cell biology. Jack earned the honor for pioneering work on traveling... more