Welcome to the website of the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. You can learn here about the people and activities which make our department an exceptional place to study, teach, and do research.
We hope that you will find this site useful whether you are currently in Berkeley, planning (or hoping) to come here, or simply want information about our activities and publications. Please follow the links in the column at the left. If you can't find what you're looking for, you may send questions to our "virtual front office" at , come to 970 Evans Hall, or call 1-510-642-6550.
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Announcements
New & Prospective Math Majors' Orientation
Wednesday, August 25th, from 3pm to 4pm, in 1015 Evans Hall. Come hear from faculty, staff advisers, and student groups about the math and applied math majors. Light refreshments will be served. Raffle.
Fall 2010 Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Exam
The Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Exam will be offered on Wednesday, September 1st, 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall. Students wishing to take the exam do not need to pre-register; you may simply show up for the exam. You will need to bring a photo ID with you.
On April 24, 2009, Professor Emeritus Hendrik Lenstra was knighted to the Order of the Netherlands Lion. The knighthood was conferred by the Queen but presented by the Mayor of Leiden. For further details, click here.
Two Announcements about Springer
The Mathematics Statistics Library has announced: 1) Springer Open Choice Pilot for UC Authors and 2) Springer EBooks 2005-2009.
ScienceMatters@Berkeley Article Showcasing Research of Professor Olga Holtz
The ability to analyze a blizzard of numbers is critical in many fields. But the strain of manipulating so many data points is wearing out even today’s fastest supercomputers. Berkeley professor of mathematics Olga Holtz is developing better ways for computers to juggle massive amounts of data, striking a balance between speed and precision. ScienceMatters@Berkeley has published an article entitled "Balancing Speed and Accuracy" highlighting Professor Holtz's research. Click here to read the article in its entirety.
Beresford Parlett Awarded Schneider Prize
Beresford Parlett (Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley) and Cleve Moler (The MathWorks) have been awarded the Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra for 2008 by the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
Henrique Bursztyn & Marius Crainic Awarded André Lichnerowicz Prize
Henrique Bursztyn (PhD 2001) and Marius Crainic (Miller Fellow 2001-2002) were awarded the first André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry at the conference Poisson 2008 at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne.
Olga Holtz Receives European Mathematical Society Prize
Our colleague, Olga Holtz, has been awarded one of the ten European Mathematical Society Prizes for 2008 at the meeting of the EMS in Amsterdam. You can read about her work, as well as that of the other prize winners, at http://smf.emath.fr/PrixDistinctions/PrizewinnersbookEMS2008.pdf
