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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 14^th 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.

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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:

Kumar, N., Rangel Ambriz, J., Tsai, K. et al. Balancing competing effects of tissue growth and cytoskeletal regulation during Drosophila wing disc development. Nature Communications 15, 2477 (2024).

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 1^st. 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.

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