Mathematics

Three from MIT named 2024-25 Goldwater Scholars
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Three from MIT named 2024-25 Goldwater Scholars MIT students Ben Lou, Srinath Mahankali, and Kenta Suzuki have been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year. They are among just 438 recipients from across the country selected based on academic merit from an estimated ...
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Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships
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Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships MIT faculty members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are among 188 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Working across 52 disciplines, the fellows were selected from almost 3,000 applicants for ...
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024 Seven MIT faculty members are among the 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24.
One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the ...
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Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program
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Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program Several years ago, a team of scientists from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals across multiple correctional facilities. The program, Brave Behind Bars, uses virtual classroom technology ...
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Improving drug development with a vast map of the immune system
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Improving drug development with a vast map of the immune system The human immune system is a network made up of trillions of cells that are constantly circulating throughout the body. The cellular network orchestrates interactions with every organ and tissue to carry out an impossibly long list of functions that ...
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024 QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the organization announced today.
The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; ...
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Four-peat: MIT students take first place in the 84th Putnam Math Competition
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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, came from a single ...
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Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world
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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 women a hands-on introduction to engineering and computer science.
What ...
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Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars
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Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars This article was updated on April 23 to reflect the promotion of Gosha Geogdzhayev from alternate to winner of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
MIT seniors Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla have won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an ...
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Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions
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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 Bayesian inference.
Bayesian inference allows these scientists to effectively estimate some unknown parameter ...
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Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications
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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 natural systems in the world function.
To solve these difficult equations, ...
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A flexible solution to help artists improve animation
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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 generates mathematical functions known as barycentric coordinates, which define ...
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MIT researchers observe a hallmark quantum behavior in bouncing droplets
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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 size of ...
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Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars
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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 graduate study in any field at any university in the United Kingdom. Up to ...
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Three MIT affiliates receive Schmidt awards
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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, and professor of computational cognitive science Josh Tenenbaum was named a Schmidt Futures ...
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Five MIT affiliates receive awards from the American Physical Society
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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 Cesarotti and Chao Li, and Pablo Gaston Debenedetti SM ’81, PhD ’85.
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Wit Busza, ...
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The power of knowledge
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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. Then, he found himself increasingly interested in the mathematical components ...
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Teen uses calculus learned through MITx to better understand his cancer treatment
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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 headaches, fatigue, loss of appetite, and nausea, the 17-year-old high school senior ...
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A new record for Math Prize for Girls wins
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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 questions, which added up to make Wan the ...
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Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators
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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 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and principal investigators in ...
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