Mathematics

Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars
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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall. In addition to MIT’s two U.S. Rhodes winners, Oluigbo ...
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2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT sees six-way tie
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2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT sees six-way tie After 274 young women spent two-and-a-half hours working through 20 advanced math problems for the 16th annual Advantage Testing Foundation/Jane Street Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) contest held Oct. 4-6 at MIT, a six-way tie was announced. Hosted by the MIT Department ...
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Testing spooky action at a distance
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Testing spooky action at a distance Researchers at MIT recently signed a four-year collaboration agreement with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), focused on accelerating quantum computing hardware research.The agreement means that both universities will set ...
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License plates of MIT
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License plates of MIT What does your license plate say about you?In the United States, more than 9 million vehicles carry personalized “vanity” license plates, in which preferred words, digits, or phrases replace an otherwise random assignment of letters and numbers to identify a ...
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Math program promotes global community for at-risk Ukrainian high schoolers
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Math program promotes global community for at-risk Ukrainian high schoolers When Sophia Breslavets first heard about Yulia’s Dream, the MIT Department of Mathematics’ Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (PRIMES) for Ukrainian students, Russia had just invaded her country, and she and her family lived in a town 20 miles from ...
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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation
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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with a corrugated surface of ridges that ...
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25 MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 13th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.The full 2025 edition of the rankings — published ...
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Ten with MIT connections win 2024 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
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Ten with MIT connections win 2024 Hertz Foundation Fellowships The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to 10 PhD students with ties to MIT. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to a total of $250,000), which allows ...
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The origin of the sun’s magnetic field could lie close to its surface
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The origin of the sun’s magnetic field could lie close to its surface The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s field is generated deep within the star. ...
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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships
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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships Eleven MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won Fulbright grants to embark on projects overseas in the 2024-25 grant cycle. Two other students were offered awards but declined them to pursue other opportunities.Funded by the U.S. Department of State, ...
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Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed
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Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed Senior math major Janabel Xia is a study of a person in constant motion.When she isn’t sorting algorithms and improving traffic control systems for driverless vehicles, she’s dancing as a member of at least four dance clubs. She’s joined several social ...
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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics
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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think about them, ...
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Elaine Liu: Charging ahead
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Elaine Liu: Charging ahead MIT senior Elaine Siyu Liu doesn’t own an electric car, or any car. But she sees the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables on the grid as two pieces of an energy puzzle she wants to solve.The U.S. Department ...
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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024
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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024 The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 members and 24 international members, including five faculty members from MIT. Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel J. Kleitman, Daniela Rus, and Senthil Todadri were elected in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing ...
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Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars MIT senior Owen Dugan, graduate student Vittorio Colicci ’22, predoctoral research fellow Carine You ’22, and recent alumna Carina Letong Hong ’22 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarships. The competitive fellowship, now in its seventh year, funds up to ...
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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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