Mathematics

Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
MIT News - Mathematics
Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans MIT graduate students Sreekar Mantena and Arjun Ramani, and recent MIT alumni Rupert Li ’24 and Jupneet Singh ’23, have been named 2025 P.D. Soros Fellows. In addition, Soros Fellow Andre Ye will begin a PhD in computer science at ...
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MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
MIT News - Mathematics
MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The 2024 class of AAAS Fellows includes 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators, spanning all 24 of AAAS ...
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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds Next time you cross a crowded plaza, crosswalk, or airport concourse, take note of the pedestrian flow. Are people walking in orderly lanes, single-file, to their respective destinations? Or is it a haphazard tangle of personal trajectories, as people dodge ...
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025 QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2025, 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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Five years, five triumphs in Putnam Math Competition
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Five years, five triumphs in Putnam Math Competition For the fifth time in the history of the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, and for the fifth year in a row, MIT swept all five of the contest’s top spots.The top five scorers each year are named Putnam Fellows. Senior ...
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MIT faculty, alumni named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
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MIT faculty, alumni named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows Seven MIT faculty and 21 additional MIT alumni are among 126 early-career researchers honored with 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The recipients represent the MIT departments of Biology; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary ...
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Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts
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Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts Should you grab your umbrella before you walk out the door? Checking the weather forecast beforehand will only be helpful if that forecast is accurate.Spatial prediction problems, like weather forecasting or air pollution estimation, involve predicting the value of a ...
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Toward video generative models of the molecular world
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Toward video generative models of the molecular world As the capabilities of generative AI models have grown, you've probably seen how they can transform simple text prompts into hyperrealistic images and even extended video clips.More recently, generative AI has shown potential in helping chemists and biologists explore static ...
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A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately
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A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately By adapting artificial intelligence models known as large language models, researchers have made great progress in their ability to predict a protein’s structure from its sequence. However, this approach hasn’t been as successful for antibodies, in part because of the ...
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MIT affiliates receive 2025 IEEE honors
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MIT affiliates receive 2025 IEEE honors The IEEE recently announced the winners of their 2025 prestigious medals, technical awards, and fellowships. Four MIT faculty members, one staff member, and five alumni were recognized.Regina Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health within the ...
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Making classical music and math more accessible
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Making classical music and math more accessible Senior Holden Mui appreciates the details in mathematics and music. A well-written orchestral piece and a well-designed competitive math problem both require a certain flair and a well-tuned sense of how to keep an audience’s interest.“People want fresh, new, non-recycled ...
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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
MIT News - Mathematics
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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