2010 - 2011 Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship awarded to Kara Pham

Kara Pham, a UCI Mathematics Graduate Student, was awarded the 2010-2011 Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.

The Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship is a fellowship for students nearing completion of their dissertations. The award allows students to forgo their non-research related employment obligations to concentrate on completing their dissertation.

For more information regarding the Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, please use the link below:


Graduate Division

Professor Chuu-Lian Terng, Chair of Mathematics Department, selected as the School of Physical Sciences Dean's honoree for the Celebration of Teaching award

Professor Chuu-Lian Terng has been selected by the School of Physical Sciences to be honored for her excellence in undergraduate teaching. The Department is grateful for her efforts in promoting the success and quality of the undergraduate program in mathematics.

Dr. Richard Palais awarded the MAA's Lester R. Ford Award.

Let us congratulate Richard Palais for being awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for his article "A Disorienting Look at Euler's Theorem on the Axis of a Rotation" jointly written with Robert Palais and Steve Rodi, published in the American Mathematical Monthly, 116 (2009), no. 10, 892-909. The award will be presented at the MathFest 2010 Prize Session to be held in August in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information about the Lester R.

Professor Uhlmann named Senior Scholar for 2010-11 by Clay Mathematics Institute

The Clay Institute has named Professor Gunther Uhlmann as one of six Senior Scholars for 2010-2011. "The aim of the Senior Scholar Program is to foster mathematical research and the exchange of ideas by providing support for senior mathematicians who will play a leading role as "senior scientist" in a topical program at an institute or university." Professor Uhlmann is also the recipient of the MSRI / UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award.

Jonathan Li, who is conducting research under the supervision of Chancellor's Professor John Lowengrub, featured in the OC Register and on CBS News

Please read and hear about Jonathan Li, an Orange County high school student and COSMOS participant, who is conducting tumor modeling research under the tutelage of math faculty member, John Lowengrub.

UCI hosting the Fall 2010 SoCal-Nev Section Meeting on Saturday, October 16th

UCI will be hosting the Fall 2010 SoCal-Nev Section Meeting on Saturday, October 16, 2010. The registration deadline is Tuesday, October 12 at 5:00 pm. The meeting will feature talks by the following invited speakers: Colin Adams, Karl Rubin, Erica Flapan, and Roland Minton. There will also be a Contributed Paper Session and the MAA Book Sale. For more information please visit sections.maa.org/socalnv/Meeting2010Fall.html

UCI Mathematics Ranked Top 10 in Research by the National Research Council

In the latest ranking by National Research Council (NRC) of The National Academies, the Mathematics Department at UCI was ranked among a pool of 127 mathematics programs in the country. The two overall ranking based on two different methods are:

Regression based, 20-52;

Survey based, 11-34.

The report also provided the rankings of the following categories:

Research, 4-16;

Student Outcomes, 105-120;

Diversity, 60-90.

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