Seminars
Today's Seminars - Spring Break
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Monday 3/24
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Tuesday 3/25
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Wednesday 3/26
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Thursday 3/27
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Friday 3/28 - Staff Holiday (Campus Closed)
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Hours & Contact
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
**Department Staff are on a hybrid schedule**
SKYE HALL 208
Tel: (951) 827-3113
Business/Front Window Hours:
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. &
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Highlights
Associate Professor - Brian Collier
For his outstanding research, teaching, mentoring and outreach, the university will promote Brian Collier to Associate Professor, effective July 1st. Congratulations, Dr. Collier.
Associate Professor - Maziar Raissi
For his excellent research, teaching, mentoring and outreach, the university will promote Maziar Raissi to Associate Professor, effective July 1st. Congratulations, Dr. Raissi.
Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SOCAMS) 2025
We are trilled to announce our department is organizing the Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SOCAMS) 2025 on April 26th, 2025 at UC Riverside, and we are pleased to extend our warmest invitation to you to participate in the conference.
SOCAMS 2025 is a unique opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with researchers from universities throughout Southern California who work in all areas of Applied and Computational Mathematics. This one-day event is designed to provide a platform for young faculty, post-docs, and graduate students to showcase their research work in an informal and collaborative atmosphere.
This year’s plenary speakers (in alphabetical order) are (https://2025.socams.org/plenary-speakers):
1. Mihai Cucuringu
2. Natalia Komarova
3. Bo Li
4. Hrushikesh Mhaskar
5. Maziar Raissi
Registration for all participants is required, but free thanks to generous support from SIAM, UCR Dean’s Office of College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), UCR Research and Economic Development (RED) and UCR Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research and Education Institute (RAISE).
You are welcome to submit an abstract for a talk or poster presentation. The registration deadline for participants with a talk or poster is April 4th, 2025, while those without presentations can register until April 11th, 2025. Lunch will be provided and informal networking is encouraged to facilitate collaborations and connections.
To register and access more information, please visit the SOCAMS 2025 website at https://www.socams.org/.
In particular, the registration form is at https://forms.gle/Er6oNDWxfHzpQEGg7
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at committeesocams@gmail.com.
Event Poster
We look very much forward to your participation and contributions to the event.
SOCAMS organizing committee
Mathematical Pathways to an Excellent Future 2025
March 11th, 2025 @ UCR
A one-day event featuring:
- A diverse set of expository mathematics lectures that cover a wide range of topics within mathematics and which may be suitable for non-expert attendees.
- A panel discussion on building a future with mathematics. Here, the speakers will talk about their paths within mathematics and answer questions from the audience.
- Posters from graduate and undergraduate students. Two prizes will be awarded for the best undergraduate posters and two for the best graduate student posters. A panel of judges will select first and second-place winners, who will receive awards of $300 and $200, respectively.
- A one-page essay competition focused on your journey in mathematics. This competition offers attendees a chance to discuss their experiences and interests in mathematics, including any challenges or successes they have faced. A panel will evaluate essays, with a $300 award for the best essay from an undergraduate student and the best from a graduate student. The panel of judges will determine the winners.
More information is available on the event page. Registration Required.
The Distinguished Burton Jones Lecture 2025 - Dr. Renato Bettiol
This year's Distinguished Burton Jones Lecture will be given by Dr. Renato Bettiol from Lehman College on March 14th at 4:00 p.m. in Skye Hall 284. Please join us for tea before the lecture at 3:30 p.m. and for the reception afterwards.
Title & Abstract
NIH/NCI T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship - Jennifer Rangel Ambriz
Many congratulations to Jennifer Rangel Ambriz for receiving a prestigious NIH/NCI T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jennifer, a former UCR Math student advised by Mark Alber, is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at City of Hope. Among her recent publications is the following paper, of which Jennifer is the co-first author:
More information of the paper can also be found in UCR press.
New Faculty - Morgan Weiler
The UCR Math Department proudly announces that Dr. Morgan Weiler joined our department as an Assistant Professor in 2024. Prior to joining UCR, she held postdoctoral positions as RTG Lovett Instructor at Rice University and then as an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. She earned both her BA and PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Weiler's work focuses on leveraging symmetry to study the dynamics and embedding properties of low-dimensional symplectic manifolds. At UCR, she plans to develop further computational techniques and to use Reeb dynamics to characterize three-dimensional manifolds.
New Faculty - Siting Liu
The UCR Math Department proudly announces that Dr. Siting Liu joined our department as an Assistant Professor in 2024. Prior to joining UCR, she postdoced as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, her MA in Mathematics at University of Wisconsin (Madison), and her PhD in Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Liu’s research centers around utilizing mathematical modeling and computational techniques to address challenges spanning a range of disciplines, such as epidemiology, optimization, data science, machine learning, mean-field games, optimal control, and partial differential equations.
To get to know more about Dr. Liu’s activities, please visit her website.
New Faculty - Filippo Mazzoli
The UCR Math Department proudly announces that Dr. Filippo Mazzoli joined our department as an Assistant Professor in 2024. Prior to joining UCR he held postdoctoral positions as a Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer at University of Virginia, as well as a postdoctoral researcher in the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He earned both his BS and MS in Mathematics at University of Pisa and his PhD in Mathematics at University of Luxembourg
Dr. Mazzoli works in Geometric Topology and Differential Geometry. He is particularly interested in the study of (higher) Teichmuller spaces, surface group representations, and geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds, in particular hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds.
To get to know more about Dr. Mazzoli’s activities, please visit his website.
New Faculty - Jeffrey S. Meyer
The UCR Math Department proudly announces that Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer joined our department as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in 2024. Prior to joining UCR, he was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernadino. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. He obtained his BS in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Chicago, and his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Meyer works at the intersection of differential geometry and number theory, studying arithmetic groups and quadratic forms. This encompasses a wide collection of areas including systolic geometry, spectral geometry, geometric group theory, Lie theory, algebraic number theory, and class field theory. He is intensely interested in research in math education, in particular, theories on learning and teaching of mathematics, especially as they relate to linear algebra.
To get to know more about Dr. Meyer’s activities, please visit his website.
Associate Professor - Jose Gonzalez
For his excellent research, teaching, mentoring and outreach, the university will promote Dr. Jose Gonzalez to Associate Professor, effective immediately.
Full Professor - Jim Kelliher
For his outstanding research, teaching, mentoring and outreach, the university will promote Dr. Jim Kelliher to Professor, effective immediately.
Associate Professor - Weitao Chen
For her excellent research, teaching, mentoring and outreach, the university will promote Dr. Weitao Chen to Associate Professor, effective July 1st. Dr. Chen works on mathematical biology and scientific computing. She has developed multiple state-of-the-art mathematical models for understanding different biological systems. The Math Department congratulates Dr. Weitao Chen and wishes her continued success in her remarkable career.
Microtutorials
The Microtutorials in Mathematics project team at UCR has conceived a new approach to producing a collection of micro-tutorials as supplementary instructional and learning materials. The intent is to assist the students and instructors to connect calculus with applications in various subject matters. The students could use them freely on any topics of their choice. The videos are produced with follow-up questions to enable instructors to flip their classrooms if desired. For details, please visit its website: https://microtutorials.ucr.edu
Math Alliance: Providing educational success to underrepresented and first-generation students is an important part of UCR's mission.
"Our goal is simple: we want to be sure that every underrepresented or under-served American student with the talent and the ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral degree in a mathematical or statistical science."
If you are interested in becoming a Math Alliance Scholar, please feel free to contact Dr. Matthew Durham. The benefits include access to Math Alliances Facilitated Graduate Applications Process and possible funding to go the the Alliance's Field of Dreams conference.