News and Announcements

Course Announcements Spring 2018
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GGAM Mini-Conference 2018 with Lunar New Year celebration
Mark your calendars for our mini-conference, which will take place on Thursday, February 15, all afternoon. There will be inspiring talks by GGAM faculty, a poster session, and a reception with Lunar New Year celebration.
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Professor Alan Hastings speaker in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute online colloquium
GGAM member Professor Alan Hastings (Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy) will speak about "Dynamics and control of spatial ecological populations" in the MBI online colloquium, Wednesday, February 14th.
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Mathematics department newsletter 2017
Read about new Krener Assistant Professor Paloma Gutierrez Castillo's work in fluid mechanics; the research highlight "Quantum States of Matter" by GGAM member Prof. Bruno Nachtergaele; an update on recent Applied Math Ph.D. alumni, including 2013 alumna Wenjing Liao, who is now a tenure-track assistant professor at Georgia Tech; and more.
Course Announcements Winter 2018
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2017/2018 GGAM Annual Meeting, Wednesday, October 18
Among the speakers: New GGAM member, Dr. Shiqian Ma (Department of Mathematics). He works on theory and algorithms of optimization and its various applications in areas like machine learning, statistics, signal processing, image processing, bioinformatics, etc.
Course Announcements Fall 2017
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GGAM Welcomes Prof. Xin Liu
Professor Liu is committed to graduate education in the applied mathematical research areas. In particular, she is interested in the area of data-driven resource management and control, where she uses machine learning and optimization techniques to improve the performance of networks.
Prizes for GGAM Faculty
GGAM Faculty members received prestigious awards. Jesús De Loera received the 2017 MAA Golden Section Teaching Award. James Bremer was named a 2016–17 UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow. Terry Nathan received the 2016 Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. Phillip Rogaway received the 2016 Levchin Prize.

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  • GGAM Mini-Conference 2017

    GGAM Mini-Conference 2017

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    GGAM member Prof. Rademacher and his collaborators James Voss and Mikhail Belkin apply their new spectral clustering method to image segmentation

  • Swimming in viscoelastic fluids

    Swimming in viscoelastic fluids

    GGAM member Prof. Bob Guy explains about his research with GGAM member Prof. Becca Thomases at the GGAM miniconference 2016

  • Extreme Functions

    Extreme Functions

    GGAM member Prof. Matthias Köppe and Applied Math Ph.D. student Yuan Zhou investigate the infinite-dimensional Gomory–Johnson relaxation of mixed-integer optimization problems

  • GGAM miniconference 2016

    GGAM miniconference 2016

    Members of the Applied Math graduate student community at the GGAM miniconference 2016 reception

  • The Perfect Wave

    The Perfect Wave

    Read more about Professor Steve Shkoller's favorite waves in his research essay "The Perfect Wave"

  • Theoretical Ecology

    Theoretical Ecology

    GGAM member Prof. Alan Hastings in collaboration with Brett Melbourne uses experiments with beetles and stochastic models to study the effect of global change

  • Relativistic Shockwaves

    Relativistic Shockwaves

    Read about work by GGAM member Prof. Blake Temple and 2011 Applied Math Ph.D. graduate Moritz Reintjes on relativistic shockwaves

  • Compressed Sensing

    Compressed Sensing

    GGAM member Prof. Miles Lopes contributes to Compressed Sensing with his work on Sparsity Estimation

Upcoming Seminars

Tue, May 22, 11:00AM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Anastasia Chavez, University of California Davis
Dual Equivalence Graphs and CAT(0) Combinatorics

Tue, May 22, 1:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Kevin Lamb, UC Davis
A Distance for Circular Heegaard Splittings

Thu, May 24, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Student App/Math : Samuel Fleisher, UC Davis
Predator-Prey-Parasite: How Manipulative, Multitrophic Parasites affect Community Dynamics

Thu, May 24, 1:10PM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Zev Rosengarten, Stanford University
Tamagawa numbers of linear algebraic groups

Thu, May 24, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Student Geo. : Tao Su, UC Berkeley
A study of augmentation varieties associated to Legendrian knots/tangles

Fri, May 25, 12:10PM - MSB 3106
Special : Michael Stobb, UC Merced
Exploring Tools of Uncertainty Quantification Motivated by Analyzing Mathematical Models of Complex Biological Systems

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