News and Announcements

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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!
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Prof. Alan Hastings Receives 2024/25 UCD Emeriti/Emeritae Distinguished Emeritus Award
Join us in celebrating Prof. Hastings’ 2024/25 UCD Emeriti/Emeritae Distinguished Emeritus Award!

Upcoming Seminars

Mon, Oct 27, 2:10PM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Colleen Robichaux, UCLA
Vanishing of Schubert coefficients in probabilistic polynomial time

Tue, Oct 28, 1:10PM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Lizzie Pratt, UC Berkeley
Exterior Cyclic Polytopes and Convexity of Amplituhedra

Tue, Oct 28, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Advika Rajapakse, UCLA
Four Steenrod squares on Khovanov homology

Tue, Oct 28, 3:10PM - PDSB 1025
Data & Dec. : Caleb Stanford, UC Davis (CS)
Programming and Correctness Support for Large-Scale Data Processing

Thu, Oct 30, 11:00AM - MSB 2112
Probability : Chris Jones, UC Davis
Treelike Asymptotic Dynamics for Iterative Algorithms and Random Matrices

Thu, Oct 30, 4:10PM - Zoom
Applied & PDEs : Mimi Dai, University of Illinois Chicago
Non-conservative and non-unique solutions for fluid equations

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