Mathematics

Four-peat: MIT students take first place in the 84th Putnam Math Competition
Four-peat: MIT students take first place in the 84th Putnam Math Competition For the fourth time in the history of the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, and for the fourth year in a row, all five of the top spots in the contest, known as Putnam Fellows, ca ...
Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world
Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young w ...
Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their choice at Cambridge University in the ...
Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions
Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called ...
Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications
Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications In fields such as physics and engineering, partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model complex physical processes to generate insight into how some of the most complicated physical and nat ...
A flexible solution to help artists improve animation
A flexible solution to help artists improve animation Artists who bring to life heroes and villains in animated movies and video games could have more control over their animations, thanks to a new technique introduced by MIT researchers.
Their method g ...
MIT researchers observe a hallmark quantum behavior in bouncing droplets
MIT researchers observe a hallmark quantum behavior in bouncing droplets In our everyday classical world, what you see is what you get. A ball is just a ball, and when lobbed through the air, its trajectory is straightforward and clear. But if that ball were shrunk to the ...
Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars
Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li have won Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious British government-funded fellowship that offers exceptional American students the opportunity to pursue several years of ...
Three MIT affiliates receive Schmidt awards
Three MIT affiliates receive Schmidt awards Two MIT faculty were recently honored by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. MathWorks Professor Jörn Dunkel received the 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath award, a ...
Five MIT affiliates receive awards from the American Physical Society
Five MIT affiliates receive awards from the American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored five MIT community members for their contributions to physics: Professor Wit Busza, Instructor Karol Bacik, postdocs Cari Cesar ...
The power of knowledge
The power of knowledge In his early career at MIT, Josh Kuffour’s academic interests spanned mathematics, engineering, and physics. He decided to major in chemical engineering, figuring it would draw on all three areas. The ...
Teen uses calculus learned through MITx to better understand his cancer treatment
Teen uses calculus learned through MITx to better understand his cancer treatment When Dustin Liang was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in June, the cancer consumed his life. But despite a monthlong hospital stay, aggressive chemotherapy treatments, and ongoing h ...
A new record for Math Prize for Girls wins
A new record for Math Prize for Girls wins Florida Virtual School senior Jessica Wan was the winner of the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying contestants, held Oct. 6-8 at MIT. 
She scored 17 out of 20 ...
Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators
Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators Five MIT professors have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigators awards from the Simons Foundation. Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Vinod Vaikuntanathan are both professors in MIT’s D ...
3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering
3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering This fall, the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE), an academic unit in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, is introducing a new standalone PhD degree program that will enable ...
School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023
School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023 Last spring, the School of Science welcomed seven new faculty members.
Erin Chen PhD ’11 studies the communication between microbes that reside on the surface of the human body and the immune system. ...
Freeman Hrabowski encourages students to “hold fast to dreams” and take time for laughter
Freeman Hrabowski encourages students to “hold fast to dreams” and take time for laughter A group of more than 50 individuals recently had the pleasure of sitting down for an informal chat at MIT with distinguished educator, author, and mathematician Freeman Hrabowski. The group was predom ...
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24 MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 12th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2024 ...
Six with MIT ties win 2023 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
Six with MIT ties win 2023 Hertz Foundation Fellowships The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced that it has awarded graduate fellowships to six students with ties to MIT. These prestigious awards provide each student with five years of doctoral- ...
Envisioning the future of computing
Envisioning the future of computing How will advances in computing transform human society?
MIT students contemplated this impending question as part of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize — an essay contest in which they wer ...

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