We are pleased to announce that Kazutoshi Alexander Patrick Ko has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Julie D. Soo, MA '85 Master's Degree Scholarship.

This prestigious award, in the amount of $2,500, recognizes a master's degree student in the physical sciences or statistics who has demonstrated a commitment to applying analytical skills in the service of social responsibility and civic engagement.

Congratulations to Kazutoshi on this well-deserved honor!

The Graduate Awards Committee has selected the following four students for the 2024-25 TA Awards:

Vitor Borges - nominated by Anthony Sanchez

"He is responsible and mature and shows a genuine interest in his students. Vitor will have a long career not just as a research mathematician, but as a top-tier instructor."

Jiyoung Choi - nominated by Leesa Anzaldo and Jiawang Nie

"She carefully explained how definitions and theorems apply to problems and examples in a way that was understandable to students.  She is a highly accessible TA, as she promptly communicates in emails and made herself available to meet outside regular office hours."

Steve Huang - nominated by Alina Bucur

"He helped proofread the homeworks I assigned (not a trivial task for a course for which there is no textbook!), wrote solutions for both homework and quizzes (thus ensuring the grader's task was much easier), met with students who had fallen behind to help them catch up."

Max Johnson - nominated by Leesa Anzaldo

"They were passionate and energetic about writing meaningful worksheets and facilitating exams with academic integrity in mind. After working with him, Max even created a problem bank for future Math 18 TAs to use for writing worksheets"

A group of extraordinary Math students were among the most recent class of undergraduates invited to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society.  These students all have GPAs of 3.85 or higher and have completed coursework across humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and competency in a second language.  Join us in congratulating Gregory Chan, Huiting Chen, Yudong Chen, Saya Egashira, Julie Hunter, Wanning Lu, Aidan Duc-Hung Mai, Katelyn Joelle Manansala, Boogie Mikulec, Sahibdeep Nann, Aditi Sadwelkar, Allen Zhang, Xiuyuan Zhang, and Ryan Minghao Zhao.

Congratulations to Gabriela Hernandez (MSED PhD student) on being named a Grad SLAM 2025 Finalist! 

Out of 61 graduate students who entered this year’s competition, only 10 were selected as Finalists—and Gabriela’s outstanding research presentation earned her a spot among them!

UC San Diego’s Grad SLAM is a UC-wide competition that challenges grad students to communicate the significance of their research in just three minutes, using language accessible to a general audience. It’s all about sharpening public speaking skills, showcasing cutting-edge research, and celebrating the power of clear and compelling communication.

We’re so proud of Gabriela for representing our MSED community with excellence! 

2025 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics is delighted to announce that Professor Cristian D.
Popescu was awarded one of the 2025 Simons Fellowships in Mathematics by the
Simons Foundation.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees

Professor Popescu will use this award to spend the 2025-2026 academic year as a
Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and as a Member of the School Mathematics at
the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. While in Princeton, Professor Popescu will
investigate new approaches to the theory of special values of motivic L-functions, a
central area of research within number theory and arithmetic geometry.

This is Professor Popescu’s second Simons Fellowship, following a 2015-2016 award
spent as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

The Simons Foundation, established in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, advances the
frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences through grant funding,
support for research and public engagement (https://www.simonsfoundation.org).

Congratulations to our 11 undergraduate math majors who have been named among the recipients of the 2024-2025 Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence!  The recipients are Yu Shang, Varun Sreedhar, Brian Ton, Pranav Reddy, Daniel Monroe, Mica Li, Adi Krishnamoorthy, Eric Nguyen, Rita Yujia Wu, Jihyun In, and Alisha Foster.

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Carol & George Lattimer Award for Graduate Excellence math major recipient, Sawyer Robertson!

Congratulations to incoming faculty member Federico Pasqualotto on receiving the Stefan Bergman Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Federico's research interests center on the partial differential equations of mathematical physics that arise in several physical theories: fluid mechanics, nonlinear wave equations, mathematical general relativity and dispersive equations.

Learn more about the fellowship on the AMS website.