News and Announcements

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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Greg Kuperberg to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Greg Kuperberg of the Department of Mathematics as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Kuperberg's research interests include quantum computing, computational complexity, and numerical integration.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Yubei Chen to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Yubei Chen of the Department of Computer Science as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Chen’s research sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience and deep unsupervised learning.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Anuj Kumar to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Anuj Kumar of the Department of Mathematics as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Kumar's research lies at the intersection of fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, combining mathematical analysis, computational and theoretical approaches to make progress on questions related to transport and mixing in turbulent flows.
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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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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Ricardo Masini to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Ricardo Masini of the Department of Statistics as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Masini's research focuses on theoretical statistics, where mathematics, particularly probability theory, plays a crucial role.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Leonor Saiz to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Leonor Saiz of the Department of Biomedical Engineering as the newest member of GGAM! Some of Prof. Saiz's current research topics include: computational biophysics, systems biology, gene regulation modeling, signal transduction networks, multiscale modeling, non-equilibrium dynamics, statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, machine learning, high-dimensional dynamical systems.
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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.

Upcoming Seminars

Mon, Feb 2, 11:00AM - MSB 2112
Disc. Math : Carl Mautner, UC Riverside
Schur algebras for matroids

Mon, Feb 2, 1:10PM - Kemper 1131
Math/CS Theory : Meghal Gupta, UC Berkeley
Optimal quantile estimation: beyond the comparison model

Mon, Feb 2, 4:10PM - MSB 2112
Math Bio. : Shirley Ahn, UC Davis, Chemical Engineering
Accelerating free energy exploration using parallelizable Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (ParGaMD)

Tue, Feb 3, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Roman Krutowski, UCLA
Orbifold Hecke algebras and Fukaya categories

Tue, Feb 3, 3:10PM - PDSB 1025
Data & Dec. : Mina Karzand, UC Davis Statistics
Dimension reduction for competition and incentivization

Wed, Feb 4, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Connor Halleck-Dube, UC Berkeley
$\xi$-stability and the Weighted Fundamental Lemma

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