Mathematician awarded Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UCI adjunct professor of mathematics, has received a 2023 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage. The prize was awarded recently by academy President Donald W. Landry of Columbia University and Chairman of the Board Sanjeev R. Kulkarni of Princeton University in a […]

Sirui Wan

UCI doctoral candidate dissects an age-old question: math or language?

Sirui Wan examines when students start to specialize and how that affects their futures

How two young math geeks solved the mystery of Mexico City’s COVID-19 dead

The Washington Post, May 3, 2021

School of Education is awarded $1.25 million to introduce novel math game in K-12 district

The UCI School of Education has received a three-year, $1.25 million research award from the NewSchools Venture Fund’s EF+Math Program to introduce Fraction Ball in the Santa Ana Unified School District. With the innovative mathematics game, arcs and colors are added to the design of a basketball court, helping children visualize equivalencies between fractions and […]

Cognitive scientist will use NSF grant to study tie between math skills, equity understanding

Nadia Chernyak, UCI assistant professor of cognitive sciences, has received a $736,366 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to investigate how cognitive skills shape our understanding of equity. Previous research suggests that math skills – particularly comprehension of fractions – can help explain whether or not a child understands fairness and inequality. Chernyak and her team […]

Some back-of-the-envelope math reveals the risk in relying on even the best antibody tests to tell us who’s had the coronavirus

Business Insider, May 15, 2020

Mathematicians use machine intelligence to map gene interactions

Technology, April 30, 2020

UCI mathematicians use machine intelligence to map gene interactions

Technique could help to find links between lung cells under coronavirus attack

‘A reality check on the math’: What’s ahead for California and Covid-19

The Guardian, April 7, 2020

UCI Distinguished Professor wins Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Svetlana Jitomirskaya is second woman to receive award – and first to receive it alone