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Wei Zhang, alongside his team members from AIM SQuaRE "geometry of Shimura varieties and arithmetic application to L-functions" are recipients of the 2025 Alexanderson Award by the American Institute of Mathematics. The team is recognized for two papers, published in Annals in 2021 and Inventiones in 2022. The award will be given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings Awards Celebration in January 2026.

Read more about their work and the award at the American Institute of Mathematics.

Congratulations, Wei!

Edgar Costa has been awarded the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data from the MIT School of Science and MIT Libraries for his involvement in LMFDB, the L-Functions and modular forms database. The prize is selected from nominees representing 30 different departments, labs, centers and institutes across MIT.

Read more at MIT Libraries.

Congratulations, Edgar!

Laurent Demanet has been named co-director of MIT’s Center for Computational Science and Engineering, effective September 1. He will co-lead the center’s mission to integrate computational methods across disciplines.

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations, Laurent!

SPUR/SPUR+ (Summer Program in Undergraduate Research) culminated with two teams sharing the 2025 Hartley Rogers Jr. Family Prize for the best SPUR paper.

Research by sophomores Henrick Rabinovitz and Joseph Vulakh was mentored by graduate student Ivan Motorin and suggested by Pavel Etingof. Senior Papon Lapate’s research was mentored by graduate student Michael Law and suggested by Tristan Ozuch-Meersseman.

They were among 14 MIT undergraduates who presented individual and joint research projects at the summer 2025 SPUR Conference to judges Aleksandr Logunov, Ju-Lee Kim, and Ankur Moitra.

This summer’s RSI (Research Science Institute) Symposium featured 11 exceptional high school students from around the world presenting their math research projects, as mentored by five graduate students and three senior undergrads, faculty advisors Roman Bezrukavnikov and Jonathan Bloom, and head mentor Tanya Khovanova.

Judy Li (Mentor: Frank Wang) and Dimana Pramatarova (mentor: Ryota Inagaki) each received a distinguished presentation award. Susie Lu (mentor: Genaro Laymuns under the guidance of Prof. John Urschel) received a distinguished paper award.

Read more about both of these events on our Community@MITMathematics page.

A big thank you to all involved, and congratulations to Dimana, Henrick, Joseph, Judy, Papon, and Susie, and mentors Frank, Genaro, John, Ivan, Michael, and Ryota.