three faculty in the mathematics department, amir mohammadi, zhouli xu, and tianyi zheng have been invited to speak at the international congress of mathematicians (icm) to be held in st. petersburg, russia in 2022:
https://icm2022.org/plenary-and-special-lectures.
bin dong of beijing university, china, who was a sew visiting assistant professor at ucsd in 2009-2011 was also invited to speak.