UCB Mathematics

Learn about the people and activities that make UC Berkeley one of the best places in the world for advanced research, graduate and undergraduate study in mathematics.

News & Announcements

Berkeley mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya awarded inaugural Barry Prize

Congratulations to Asst. Professor Yunqing Tang on being awarded the 2024 AWM Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory!

Congratulations to Professor Ruixiang Zhang who will receive the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize!

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Hannah Larson on being awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize!

Congratulations to Professor William "Velvel" Kahan for reciept of an IEEE Milestone Plaque for the development of the Intel 8087 floating point coprocessor

Today's Events

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Free Integral Calculus

SURF Info Session

Informal String-Math Seminar: Kapustin-Rozanksy-Witten (KRS) theory path to knot homology

Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Rohil Prasad: On the dense existence of compact invariant sets

Analysis and PDE Seminar: Low Regularity Solutions for the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Front Equation

Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Mohan Swaminathan: Constructing smoothings of stable maps

Applied Math Seminar: Numerical methods for multi-layer coating flows

Featured Faculty

A random selection of UC Berkeley Math Faculty members

Nikhil Srivastava

Associate Professor

Theoretical computer science, random matrices, geometry of...

Jennifer Chayes

Professor

Probability theory, graph theory, graphons, mathematical...

Federico Pasqualotto

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Partial differential equations: nonlinear waves, fluid...

Per-Olof Persson

Professor

Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods, Computational Fluid...

Dongxiao Yu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Partial differential equations, nonlinear wave and...

C. Ward Henson

Visitor

Continuous logic and model theory of metric structures;...

Kevin Stubbs

Postdoc-Employee

Numerical analysis; Quantum chemistry; Quantum information...

Jon Wilkening

Professor

Applied mathematics, Numerical methods, Partial...

Forte Shinko

Postdoctoral Scholar

Descriptive set theory, topological and measurable dynamics...

Yunqing Tang

Assistant Professor

Arithmetic geometry, number theory

Eyal Kaplan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Set theory, forcing, large cardinals

Nicolle Gonzalez

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Diagrammatic categorification, representation theory, and...

Eric Chen

NSF Postdoctoral Scholar

Geometric analysis, differential geometry

Constantin Teleman

Professor

Lie groups, Algebraic geometry, Topology, Quantum field...

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Professor

Operator algebras, Hilbert space operators modulo normed...

Alexander Teytelboym

Chancellor's Professor

Mathematical economics.

Lin Lin (林霖)

Professor

Numerical analysis; Quantum chemistry; Quantum algorithms

Jikang Wang

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Differential geometry and metric geometry.

Anuj Kumar

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Fluid dynamics, turbulent flow.

Sergei Korotkikh

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Algebraic combinatorics, integrable probability,...

Yegor Zenkevich

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mathematical physics, representation theory

Andrew Marks

Professor

Descriptive set theory and connections with computability,...

Ian Agol

Professor

Low-dimensional topology

Ivan Danilenko

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical...

Mark D. Haiman

Professor

Algebra, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry

Michael Hutchings

Professor

Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology and Geometry

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Professor

Mathematical physics and dynamical systems

Krutika Tawri

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Partial differential equations, fluid dynamics

Alexander Paulin

Teaching Professor

Number theory, p-adic automorphic forms

Sung-Jin Oh

Assistant Professor

Nonlinear partial differential equations