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News & Announcements

Evans Hall Power Outage Feb 25-26

Alan Schoenfeld awarded highest international distinction in math education

2012 Alfred Tarski Lectures scheduled for February 21st, 22nd, and 24th, with Per Martin-Löf

2011-2012 Bowen Lectures scheduled for February 27th, 28th and 29th, with Cédric Villani

2012 Chern Lectures scheduled for April 10th, 12th, 17th & 19th, with Jean Bourgain

Today's Events

Computations in Deformation Theory: Computational Algebra Seminar

Seiberg Witten and Embedded Contact Homology seminar

Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making: Confidence calibration: make probabilities work for you

Propositions, Truth and Consequence: Alfred Tarski Lectures

Totally disconnected groups (not) acting on three-manifolds: Topology Seminar

Neyman Seminar: Global seismic tomography in the age of numerical wavefield computations

On the homotopy type of Berkovich spaces

Hypercube percolation

Categorical Aspects of Compact Quantum Groups (part 2)

Retinal Sensor Spike Modeling with Applications to Biology

Generalizing Communication Optimal Algorithms

Featured Faculty

A random selection of UC Berkeley Math Faculty members

Olga Holtz

Professor

Matrix analysis, approximation theory, analysis of...

August Johansson

Miller Research Fellow

Finite element methods

Ichiro Satake

Professor Emeritus

Symmetric spaces, Automorphic functions

Leo A. Harrington

Professor

Recursion theory, Model theory, Set theory

Chris Shannon

Professor

Mathematical economics

Elena Fuchs

Simons Visiting Assistant Professor

Group Actions, Number Theory

Yuval Peres

Adjunct Professor

Probability theory and Hausdorff dimension

Santiago Canez

Lecturer

Symplectic geometry and mathematical physics

Marina Ratner

Professor Emeritus

Ergodic theory

Alice Medvedev

Visiting Assistant Professor (FRG)

Model Theory, Algebraic Dynamics

Svante Linusson

Visiting Scholar

Probabilistic combinatorics, electoral systems

Daisuke Ikegami

Postdoctoral Fellow

Set Theory

Steven N. Evans

Professor

Probability and stochastic processes

Martin Olsson

Professor

Algebraic and arithmetic geometry

Sikimeti Ma'u

RTG Postdoctoral Fellow

Symplectic Geometry & Topology