# 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

Semyon Dyatlov won the International Association of Mathematical Physics Early Career Award. Congratulations!
In summer 2018, the mathematics department is offering incoming freshmen access to a new online learning tool, ALEKS PPL (www.aleks.com).
Fall 2018 Quantitative Reasoning Exam will be Wed. Aug. 22nd from 5-6:30PM in 939 Evans Hall
James W. Demmel elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations!
Berkeley Undergraduate Number Theory Conference, April 14-15, 2018

## Today's Events

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Nonstandard Analysis and its Application to Markov Processes
3-Manifold Seminar: Symplectic structures on representation varieties of surfaces
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): A Sharpened Inequality for Twisted Convolution
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Curves of genus 11 with several maps of degree 6 to $\mathbb P^1$
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Tensor decompositions of II$_1$ factors arising from extensions of amalgamated free product groups
Data and sustainability science and practice: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Curves on surfaces with ordinary singularities in $\mathbb P^3$