- Dean's Corner
- News and Links from the Dean
- Untying a Math Mystery — YOU HAVE to hand it to mathematicians, they can turn anything into a formal problem...
- Math Will Rock Your World — A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data...
- National Academy of Science publishes new book on competing in the global marketplace, "Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future".
- Is the US losing its competitive advantage and innovative edge? Lewis M. Branscomb, visiting faculty member of UC San Diego, discusses this possibility in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, "Innovate or Perish".
- A precarious position at the top for US higher education, per op-ed piece in the Boston Globe by Charles M. Vest.
- Business Leaders Seek to Double College Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
- What Can America Do About Mathematics?
- With its California Teach program, the University of California will put a thousand new science and math teachers annually into California classrooms by the year 2010.
Faculty in the Division are exceptionally well supported by extramural funding-a total of $70 million for 2003-04. The distinguished research of the faculty has led to national and international recognition, including four Nobel prizes, six National Medals of Science, and twenty current members of the National Academy of Sciences.
- News From The Division and Beyond
- UCLA Plasma Physics program rated #3 and UCLA Applied Mathematics #4 in just-published 2006 US News and World Report rankings.
- UCLA Physicists John Cornwall and Eric D’Hoker were elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society.
- Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
- Chemists Report Progress in Quest to use Hydrogen as Fuel for Cars and Electronic Devices
- UCLA Scientists See and Analyze 650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Inside Rocks in Three Dimensions a First, With Implications for Finding Life on Mars.
- Fraser Stoddart's new research -- the design and construction of a molecular nano motor, powered only by sunlight -- to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- UCLA Astronomers and Colleagues led by Professor Andrea Ghez Use Laser to Take Clearest Images of the Center of the Milky Way.
- UCLA Researchers Angela Kopp and Sudip Chakravarty publish "Criticality in Correlated Quantum Matter" in the inaugural issue of Nature Physics.
- UCLA Biochemists Provide First Structural Details of Mysterious Bacterial Microcompartments
- UCLA's new Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) will launch a lecture series beginning Oct. 24.
- Dusty Old Star Offers Window to Our Future, UCLA Astronomers Ben Zuckerman, Eric Becklin and Michael Jura Report
- UCLA Mathematician Russel Caflisch Awarded Major DOE Grant to Apply Sophisticated Mathematics to Plasma Physics
- Dust-Enshrouded Star Looks Similar to our Sun, May Have Witnessed 'Cosmic Catastrophe,' Astronomers at UCLA, Gemini and Carnegie Report
- UCLA Chemists Thoi Nguyen, Fraser Stoddart, and Jeff Zink Create New Nano Valve
- UCLA Researchers and International Collaborators Show That 'Molecular Zipper' May Hold Important Clues to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Mad Cow Disease, International Scientists Report in Nature
- Four UCLA Physical Sciences Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences