Mathematics

MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows
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MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows Eight MIT faculty and 22 additional MIT alumni are among 126 early-career researchers honored with 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The fellowships honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments ...
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Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models
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Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they’re far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as certain tones, personalities, biases, and moods. However, it’s not obvious exactly ...
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Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
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Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable A firm that wants to use a large language model (LLM) to summarize sales reports or triage customer inquiries can choose between hundreds of unique LLMs with dozens of model variations, each with slightly different performance.To narrow down the choice, ...
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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on...
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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on... In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5. They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, ...
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Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship
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Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.Spivakovsky, who is double-majoring in biological engineering and ...
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“Wait, we have the tech skills to build that”
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“Wait, we have the tech skills to build that” Students can take many possible routes through MIT’s curriculum, which can zigag through different departments, linking classes and disciplines in unexpected ways. With so many options, charting an academic path can be overwhelming, but a new tool called NerdXing is ...
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New method improves the reliability of statistical estimations
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New method improves the reliability of statistical estimations Let’s say an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weights in a particular county.They might train a machine-learning model to estimate the magnitude of this association, since machine-learning methods are especially good ...
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School of Science welcomed new faculty in 2024
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School of Science welcomed new faculty in 2024 The School of Science welcomed 11 new faculty members in 2024.Shaoyun Bai researches symplectic topology, the study of even-dimensional spaces whose properties are reflected by two-dimensional surfaces inside them. He is interested in this area’s interaction with other fields, including ...
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Q&A: On the ethics of catastrophe
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Q&A: On the ethics of catastrophe At first glimpse, student Jack Carson might appear too busy to think beyond his next problem set, much less tackle major works of philosophy. The second-year undergraduate, who plans to double major in electrical engineering with computing and mathematics, has ...
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Q&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
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Q&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) is a presidential initiative with a mission of elevating human-centered research and teaching and connecting scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with colleagues across the Institute.Since its launch in 2024, MITHIC has funded ...
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The student becomes the teacher
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The student becomes the teacher Coming from a small high school in rural South Dakota that didn’t offer advanced placement (AP) classes, Titus Roesler ’25 didn’t have the easiest start at MIT. But when his efforts to catch up academically to his peers led to ...
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Laurent Demanet appointed co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering
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Laurent Demanet appointed co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering Laurent Demanet, MIT professor of applied mathematics, has been appointed co-director of the MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE), effective Sept. 1.Demanet, who holds a joint appointment in the departments of Mathematics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ...
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MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery
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MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery MIT Department of Mathematics researchers David Roe ’06 and Andrew Sutherland ’90, PhD ’07 are among the inaugural recipients of the Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets’ AI for Math grants. Four additional MIT alumni — Anshula Gandhi ’19, Viktor Kunčak SM ...
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DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid...
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DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid... The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recently announced that it has selected MIT to establish a new research center dedicated to advancing the predictive simulation of extreme environments, such as those encountered in hypersonic flight and atmospheric ...
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Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models
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Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models Within the past few years, models that can predict the structure or function of proteins have been widely used for a variety of biological applications, such as identifying drug targets and designing new therapeutic antibodies.These models, which are based on ...
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MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects
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MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects M.C. Escher’s artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring “impossible objects” that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries. What you perceive his illustrations to be depends on your point of view — for ...
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This “smart coach” helps LLMs switch between text and code
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This “smart coach” helps LLMs switch between text and code Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest math problems.Textual reasoning is ...
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26 MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.The full 2026 edition of the rankings — published ...
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A sounding board for strengthening the student experience
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A sounding board for strengthening the student experience During his first year at MIT in 2021, Matthew Caren ’25 received an intriguing email inviting students to apply to become members of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s (SCC) Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG). He immediately shot off an application.Caren is ...
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Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects
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Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects Animators could create more realistic bouncy, stretchy, and squishy characters for movies and video games thanks to a new simulation method developed by researchers at MIT.Their approach allows animators to simulate rubbery and elastic materials in a way that preserves ...
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