Department of Mathematics

The Breakthrough Foundation Symposium will take place at Berkeley this year on Nov 9, with participation of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize winner and of our colleagues from Berkeley and Stanford.Read more about Breakthrough Foundation Symposium at Berkeley on Nov 9, 2015

As faculty of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department, we are committed to taking an active role in maintaining a safe and inclusive workplace, free of sexual harassment. We feel that the University procedures currently in place fail to protect our students from sexual harassment, and allow...Read more about A letter from a group of math faculty regarding sexual harassment

For more information, please visit New DOE Office of Science support for CAMERA to develop computational mathematics for experimental facilities research, Berkeley Lab Computing Science News.Read more about Department of Energy announces support for Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), directed by James Sethian

On 26 August 2015, John Steel and Ronald Jensen were awarded the Hausdorff Medal of the European Set Theory Society at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge for their construction of the core model without the use of a measurable cardinal.Read more about John Steel awarded the Hausdorff Medal of the European Set Theory Society