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Vegetation highlights a self-similar repeating pattern created in the landscape by erosion

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow uses fractals to study erosion

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Paul Atzberger holds a mathematical figure.
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Matt Perko
Paul Atzberger is designing AI that sees the world more like a geometer.

Giving AI geometric awareness allows it to better understand the world
Shelly Gable, David Morrison, Javier Read de Alaniz, Kelly Caylor
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Matt Perko and Jeff Liang
Shelly Gable, David Morrison, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Kelly Caylor

UCSB professors honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
turbulence as ink is dispersed into water

New mathematical insights into Lagrangian turbulence
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RazeMath is Nico Lehner, left, and Evan McCall, right.

RazeMath wins UCSB’s 26th annual New Venture Competition
Daniel Naylor
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UCSB math graduate charts his next move
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Second-year Pico Gilman ’27 placed sixth in the Putnam Math Competition, leading UCSB to its best-ever finish.

UCSB ranks fifth in prestigious Putnam Math Competition
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A University of California multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within its STEM teaching faculty ranks

Achievements in Research

A Clear Description of Turbulent Water

A World of Uncertainty

A Large Talk on Minimal Surfaces

Solving the Unsolvable
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