About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had ...

UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao already has a bevy of prestigious awards for his work in such fields as number theory and harmonic analysis. Now he is adding one more lucrative prize. Tao, 38, ...

This post was updated Oct. 28 at 10:43 p.m. The UCLA Department of Mathematics eliminated paid graders and limited working hours for teaching assistants after UCLA cut its budget for the 2025-26 ...

Andrea Bertozzi, a mathematics and engineering professor at UCLA, pictured with her crime modeling diagram. Bertozzi shared her use of data analytics in her seminar “Mathematics of Crime” on Thursday ...

Demetri Brizolis, a longtime resident of Rancho Santa Fe, addressed the UCLA Department of Mathematics graduating class of 2017 on Father’s Day, June 18. The department, ranked 7th in the world, ...

Providence, RI---"The mathematics community is fortunate to have UCLA present such an outstanding example of an exemplary program in a mathematics department." So reads the concluding sentence of the ...

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. UCLA students with majors in the life sciences will have ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

In bringing together principals of charter schools and regular public schools, a new university-based initiative is attempting to salve wounds inflicted by the rawest conflict in the nation’s ...

When you think of successful policing, math may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But UCLA researchers are finding that algorithms can be key to preventing major crimes, such as car theft and ...