Mathematics

MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to...
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MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to... Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly disappear. No one had ever collected them systematically, cleaned them, and ...
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MIT takes top team honors in 86th Putnam Math Competition
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MIT takes top team honors in 86th Putnam Math Competition In an outstanding performance at the 86th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, MIT’s team once again took the top spot for the sixth consecutive year. MIT secured four of the five Putnam Fellows, who are the five highest-ranking students, and ...
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MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026
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MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026 Four MIT faculty members are among the roughly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 22. Thirteen additional MIT alumni were also honored.One ...
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MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors
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MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored two MIT faculty members — professors Yoel Fink PhD ’00 and Mehran Kardar PhD ’83 — as well as six alumni with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics and academic leadership.In ...
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026 QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 12 subject areas for 2026, the organization announced today.The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil and Structural ...
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New model predicts how mosquitoes will fly
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New model predicts how mosquitoes will fly A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person’s silhouette and the carbon dioxide they exhale.Now researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have found that these visual and chemical cues help ...
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3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
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3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing. Conversely, the steam engine was a practical breakthrough, but it took fundamental research ...
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MIT undergraduates help US high schoolers tackle calculus
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MIT undergraduates help US high schoolers tackle calculus This year in a rural school district in southeastern Montana, one high school student is taking calculus. For many people, calculus is daunting enough, even when teachers are used to offering it and peers are around to help. Studying it ...
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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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