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

Ian Agol

Professor

Low-dimensional topology

Sung-Jin Oh

Assistant Professor

Nonlinear partial differential equations

Peng Zhou

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Mathematical physics, mirror symmetry, semiclassical...

Kevin Stubbs

Postdoc-Employee

Numerical analysis; Quantum chemistry; Quantum information...

Jennifer Chayes

Professor

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

Paul A. Vojta

Professor

Diophantine approximation, Nevanlinna theory (especially as...

Alexander Paulin

Teaching Professor

Number theory, p-adic automorphic forms

Anuj Kumar

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Fluid dynamics, turbulent flow.

Yunqing Tang

Assistant Professor

Arithmetic geometry, number theory

Jikang Wang

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Differential geometry and metric geometry.

John R. Steel

Professor Emeritus

Set theory, Descriptive set theory, Fine structure

Tony Feng

Assistant Professor

Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Langlands Program,...

Richard E. Borcherds

Professor

Lie algebras, Vertex algebras, Automorphic forms

Norman Sheu

Unit 18 Lecturer

Differential geometry and mathematical physics

Richard H. Bamler

Associate Professor

Geometric analysis, differential geometry, topology

Thomas Scanlon

Professor

Model theory and applications to number theory

John Lott

Professor

Differential geometry, geometric analysis

Khalilah Beal

Unit 18 Lecturer

Partial Differential Equations; Stochastic Processes

Nikhil Srivastava

Associate Professor

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

Bernd Ulrich

Chern Visiting Professor

Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, in particular,...

Ming Gu

Professor

Numerical linear algebra, Scientific computing

Gabriel Goldberg

Assistant Professor

Set theory, large cardinals, inner model theory, infinite...

Ivan Danilenko

Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor

Algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical...

Hélène Barcelo

Research Associate

Algebraic combinatorics, discrete homotopy and homology...

Eyal Kaplan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Set theory, forcing, large cardinals

Vera Serganova

Professor

Super-representation theory

Zvezdelina Stankova

Teaching Professor & Director, Berkeley Math Circle

Algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics,...

Alexander Teytelboym

Chancellor's Professor

Mathematical economics.

David Eisenbud

Professor

Algebraic geometry, Commutative algebra, Computation

Lin Lin (林霖)

Professor

Numerical analysis; Quantum chemistry; Quantum algorithms