"CCS is a great program for any aspiring mathematician. The flexible teaching style of the professors here allows you to learn anything that tickles your fancy. Furthermore, the benefits of being in CCS will allow you to excel in your academics and still have a social life." Kevin Lui
CCS Mathematics Student
 " CCS Math is an excellent program. You learn a bunch and your are always challenged. The faculty is really great and the teachers can always help you out. If you are proficient in mathematics and you want to have a great time at UCSB, CCS math is the way to go." Derek Hollowood CCS Mathematics Student

News 2015-2016

Here we share some of the accomplishments of our CCS math students.

2015-2016

• Phoebe Coy received funding to present her research at the Young Mathematicians conference in Ohio, August 2016.
  

• Xander Song participated in the campus-wide  Elevator Pitch contest for undergraduate researchers and obtained one of the two prizes. Additionally, he co-won the second place in a campus-wide poster session for undergraduate research.
  

• Mark Rychnovsky has been awarded the Raymond L. Wilder Award.
• Jerry Luo has been awarded the 2016 Adil Yakub is My Hero Scholarship.
  

• Wei Dai will start a PhD program in Computer Science at UC San Diego with a Powell Fellowship in the Fall.
  

• Taom Sakal has been admitted into the EEMB PhD program at UCSB under the network theory IGERT. He has also been admitted into PhD programs in Informatics and Systems Science at University of Bloomington and Binghamton University, respectively. Taom will be attending the PhD program at UCSB next year.
  

• Lingyu Du has been admitted into a Master's program at University of Virginia and will be attending this program next year.
  

• Nicholas Brody has been admitted into a PhD program at University of Michigan, UC Los Angeles, UC Berkeley, and Columbia. He will be attending UC Berkeley next year.
  

• Tamara Gomez, Zhixing Guo, and Phoebe Coy presented a poster in the SoCal-Nev MAA Spring 2016 meeting at Loyola Marymount University.
  

• Jeremy Irvin will start a Master's of Computer Science program at Standford next year.
  

• Hedi Xia was awarded a Small Research Grant for Spring 2016.
• Talon Stark and Xiaoyu Qiao have been accepted to participate in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics summer program.
  

• Jiajie Luo has been accepted into the UCLA REU program.
• Thomas Hogan has been accepted into a PhD program in UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and UC Irvine. He will be attending the program at UC Davis next year.
  

• Phoebe Coy and Xander Song have been accepted into the UCSB Math REU program.
  
• Mark Rychnovsky has been accepted into PhD programs in University of Columbia, University of Chicago, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California, and University of Washington. He will be attending University of Columbia next year.
  
• Jeremy Irvin has been accepted into a PhD program in Carnegie Mellon.
  

• Andrew Ballin has been accepted into the MA program in mathematics at Stony Brook and into the Cambridge MAST program. He will be attending the Cambridge program next year.
  

• Chloe Avery has been accepted to participate in the Summer@ICERM program "Dynamics and Stochastics" at Brown University.
  

• In our Life After CCS series, in the Winter quarter we had a Skype meeting with Megan Maguire who is completing her fourth year at a PhD program in Wisconsin-Madison.
  
• Shenyang Zhang has been admitted to a PhD program in Cornell.
  

• In our Life After CCS series, in the Fall quarter we had a panel of former CCS students who are now doing the Master's program at UCSB.
  

• Six of our female CCS math students attended the WiMSoCal Symposium, a mathematics conference for female mathematicians, on November 7th.
• Yingying Wang presented the talk: "Introduction to p-adic L-functions" in the WiMSoCal Symposium.
• Sarafina Ford presented the talk: "Sign-characteristic-preserving linearizations in DL(P)" in the WiMSoCal Symposium.
• Chloe Avery presented the talk: "Graceful labelings of armies of caterpillars" in the WiMSoCal Symposium.
• Andrew Ballin has been nominated for the Churchill Scholarship. 
• Jack Gallagher was awarded a Small Research Grant for Fall 2015.