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

Mon, Sep 28, 1:10PM - PDSB 3024
Math Physics : Motohico Mulase, UC Davis
Monodromy, Gaiotto, and Langlands

Mon, Sep 28, 4:00PM - MSB 2112
Disc. Math : Benjamin Webster, University of Waterloo
Knot contact homology as a planar limit of Chern-Simons theory

Mon, Sep 28, 4:10PM - Kemper 1131
Math/CS Theory : Dave Doty, UC Davis, Computer Science
Entropy Production and Heat Functions: The thermodynamic complexity of circuit computation

Tue, Sep 29, 2:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Yukun Du, University of Georgia
TBA

Tue, Sep 29, 3:10PM - PDSB 1025
Data & Dec. : Yunpeng Shi, UC Davis
From Pairwise Directions to Global Geometry: Theory and Algorithms for Robust Reconstruction

Wed, Sep 30, 2:10PM - MSB 1147
Student Research : Anouk Brose, UC Davis
How to (not) reconstruct a polytope from its slices

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