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 ...

Terence Tao became the first mathematics professor in UCLA history to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the "Nobel Prize in mathematics," during the opening ceremony of the ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For students studying science and engineering, research often comes up as a potential career path. Lexi Kwon, a second-year physics student, said she started to look for research opportunities to see ...

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, ...

A former math professor has donated $1 million to UCLA to bring visiting mathematics professors to the campus. V.S. Varadarajan, who joined the UCLA faculty in 1965 and retired in 2014, specialized in ...