News and Announcements

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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Hao Chen to GGAM!
We are excited to add Professor Hao Chen of the Department of Statistics as the newest member of GGAM! Professor Chen's research develops nonparametric methods and theory for moderate- and high-dimensional, network-valued, and other complex data.
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GGAM Alumna Dr. Esha Datta Receives SASE Most Promising Professional Award
Dr. Esha Datta, GGAM PhD ’23, has received the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers Most Promising Professional Award following her nomination by Sandia National Laboratories.
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Kim Calabrese Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Graduate student Kim Calabrese has been awarded a highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, one of only 2,500 recipients selected from 14,000 applicants nationwide.
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Joshua Petrack Awarded the UC Davis Marr Prize
Recent PhD alum Joshua Petrack has been selected as the recipient of the UC Davis Allen G. Marr Prize, an honor recognizing the most outstanding doctoral dissertations each year.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Greg Kuperberg to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Greg Kuperberg of the Department of Mathematics as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Kuperberg's research interests include quantum computing, computational complexity, and numerical integration.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Yubei Chen to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Yubei Chen of the Department of Computer Science as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Chen’s research sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience and deep unsupervised learning.
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Join us in Welcoming Prof. Anuj Kumar to GGAM!
We are excited to add Prof. Anuj Kumar of the Department of Mathematics as the newest member of GGAM! Prof. Kumar's research lies at the intersection of fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, combining mathematical analysis, computational and theoretical approaches to make progress on questions related to transport and mixing in turbulent flows.
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Two GGAM Students Win Best Poster Awards at SIAM NCC
Graduate students Kelli Gutierrez and Jon Forstater were honored with Best Poster Awards at the 2025 SIAM Northern California Chapter (SIAM NCC) meeting. Their work showcases the depth, creativity, and interdisciplinary reach of research happening in our graduate program.

Upcoming Seminars

Tue, Nov 3, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Nancy Eagles, UC Berkeley
Symplectic fillability of contact 3-manifolds and Heegaard Floer homology

Tue, Nov 3, 3:10PM - PDSB 1025
Data & Dec. : Yubei Chen, UC Davis
What Does a Value Function Know? Probing World Models in Reinforcement Learning

Wed, Nov 4, 2:10PM - MSB 1147
Student Research : Michael Lewis, UC Davis
No Matter How You Slice It: A Study of Flow Regimes Around Wedges

Thu, Nov 5, 11:00AM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Alexandra Florea, UC Irvine
Small values of the Riemann zeta-function near the critical line

Thu, Nov 5, 12:10PM - PDSB 3024
Math Physics : Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
Flowing to Euler Blowup: a Lagrangian Energy Method

Thu, Nov 5, 1:10PM - MSB 2112
Probability : Jesse Goodman, Simons Institute
Low-error two-source extractors

...more seminars