News and Announcements

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Two GGAM Students Win Best Poster Awards at SIAM NCC
Graduate students Kelli Gutierrez and Jon Forstater were honored with Best Poster Awards at the 2025 SIAM Northern California Chapter (SIAM NCC) meeting. Their work showcases the depth, creativity, and interdisciplinary reach of research happening in our graduate program.
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Congratulations to Joshua Petrack – Winner of the Excellent Student/Postdoc Poster Award at DNA31!
Joshua Petrack, Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics, has won the Best Student/Postdoc Poster Award at DNA31 in Lyon, France! His work, co-authored with Professor David Doty, introduces the first exact algorithm for simulating chemical reaction networks in sublinear time per reaction—a major leap in molecular programming.
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Congratulations to Lauren Mossman on Receiving the Simons Dissertation Fellowship!
Lauren Mossman, Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics, has been awarded the prestigious Simons Dissertation Fellowship for her groundbreaking research on ecosystem dynamics and species interactions. Her innovative modeling work offers new insights into habitat change, resilience, and ecological management.
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Matthias Köppe’s Passagemath Project Marks New Era for Open-Source Math Software
After five years of development, UC Davis professor Matthias Köppe has reengineered the open-source math software SageMath—ushering in a modular future with the release of Passagemath 10.5.29.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Dogyoon Song to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Dogyoon Song of the Department of Statistics as the newest member of GGAM! Some of Prof. Song's current research topics include optimization theory, high-dimensional statistics, deep learning theory, and causal inference.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Caleb Stanford to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Caleb Stanford of the Department of Computer Science as the newest member of GGAM! Some of Prof. Stanford's interests include Programming language theory and formal methods in computer science; applied mathematical logic; theoretical computer science.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Andrés Carvajal to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Andrés Carvajal of the Department of Economics as the newest member of GGAM! Some of Prof. Carvajal's interests include pure economic theory, in particular general equilibrium theory. This field requires the application of careful mathematics to develop insight about the operation of markets.
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AAAS Elects Alexander Aue and Raissa D'Souza as Fellows
Congratulations to Prof. Alexander Aue and Prof. Raissa D'Souza for being elected as AAAS fellows!

Upcoming Seminars

Thu, Nov 20, 4:10PM - Zoom
Applied & PDEs : Daniel Ginsberg, Brooklyn College -- CUNY
On the existence of fibered three-dimensional perfect fluid equilibria without continuous Euclidean symmetry

Fri, Nov 21, 4:10PM - PDSB 3024
Math Physics : Kai Xu, Berkeley
3-Manifolds with positive scalar curvature and bounded geometry

Mon, Nov 24, 2:10PM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Samrith Ram, IIIT-Delhi
A symmetric function formula for subspace enumeration by operator profile

Mon, Nov 24, 4:10PM - MSB 2112
Math Bio. : Maddie Jarvis-Cross, UC Davis, Environmental Science and Policy
Disease Ecology and Dynamical Systems in a Changing World: Estimability, Coexistence, and Predictability

Tue, Nov 25, 1:10PM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Avi Zeff, UC Berkeley
Generic modularity of higher theta series for reductive dual pairs

Tue, Nov 25, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Yanwen Luo, Oklahoma State University
Topological properties of graphs and the Colin de Verdiere parameter

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