Theorist takes UCI mathematics chair Award-winning mathematician...

Theorist takes UCI mathematics chair

Award-winning mathematician and professor Karl Rubin has been

named to the Edward and Vivian Thorp Chair in Mathematics at UC

Irvine.

As a leader in the mathematical field of number theory, Rubin

received the prestigious Cole Prize in 1992, an award given only once

every five years by the American Mathematical Society. He was also

awarded the Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 1999.

Rubin comes to UCI by way of Princeton, Ohio and Stanford

universities.

The Thorp chair was created with a $1 million donation last year,

making Rubin the first to hold the newly-created position. The chair

is named for former UCI Professor Edward O. Thorp, who taught from

1965 to 1977 in mathematics and from 1977 to 1982 in both mathematics

and finance.

New informatics chairman appointed

UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer

Sciences on Wednesday announced the appointment of David Redmiles as

its chairman for the Department of Informatics.

The department, created in 2002, studies how computing affects

people, organizations and society and how that impacts computer

design. The school will offer a bachelor’s degree in informatics

starting in September, and a master’s program is planned.

Redmiles, an associate professor in informatics, has been with UCI

since 1994. He replaces founding chairman Richard N. Taylor, who will

continue as director of UCI’s Institute for Software Research.