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Harvey Philip Greenspan, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at MIT, passed away on March 20, 2026 at the age of 93. Harvey served on the MIT faculty in our department for 42 years until his retirement in 2002, and was a preeminent applied mathematician. He is survived by his wife Miriam, their two daughters Elizabeth Greenspan and Judith Greenspan, their sons-in-law Jeffrey Hurwit and Thomas Berman, four grandchildren, other family members and several old friends.

Please read more about Harvey's life and work here.

Ankur Moitra has been awarded the 2026 W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society.

The McDowell Award is given yearly to individuals for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contribution that falls within the scope of IEEE Computer Society interest. His citation reads “For groundbreaking contributions to high-dimensional learning —spanning mixture models, robust statistics, and quantum systems.”

Read more about Ankur’s award at the IEEE Computer Society.

Congratulations, Ankur!

Adityanarayanan “Adit” Radhakrishnan has been awarded the Edmund F. Kelly Research Award.

Periodically, our department gives this award to one or several junior faculty members "in recognition of work that applies mathematical methods in a new area or that offers a fundamentally new perspective on a classical problem."

This award was established in honor of former Liberty Mutual CEO and President Edmund "Ted" Kelly, who received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Sigurdur Helgason in 1970.

Congratulations, Adit!

Gigliola Staffilani has been named as the 2027 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer. The Noether Lecture will be delivered at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2027.

The Emmy Noether Lectures were launched by the AWM in 1980 to "honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences”.

Read more about the announcement at AWM.

Congratulations, Gigliola!