Science and Education Pioneer Award (LIVESTREAM)

Special kickoff to EYU at the beginning of the event by Dean Miguel García-Garibay of the division of Physical Sciences at UCLA including a presentation of the 2025 Science and Education Pioneer Award.

Livestream here: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91453293092?pwd=4vSHpunJyS3bW9E8a5naxMJaCiPS2q.1

2025 Pioneer Award Recipient, Professor Terence Tao.

We are proud to honor Professor Terence Tao of the UCLA Mathematics Department with the 2025 Pioneer Award for his contributions to science and the community! The ceremony and short presentation by Professor Tao will take place in Young Hall CS50 at 12pm. Please come a few minutes early to save your seat – you do not want to miss this! Professor Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975. He has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, having completed his PhD under Elias Stein at Princeton in 1996. Tao’s areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Fields Medal in 2006, the MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, the Crafoord prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Terence Tao also holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2020-2024, he served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.