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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.

Several members of the MIT Math community received 2025 Frontiers of Science awards for top research papers at July's International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing, China.

This year's recipients include:

• Davesh Maulik for two papers: "The P=W Conjecture for GL_n," a joint paper with Junliang Shen, Annals of Mathematics, 2024; and "Gopakumar-Vafa Invariants via Vanishing Cycles" with Yukinobu Toda, Inventiones Mathematicae, 2018.
• Former instructor Zilin Jiang, Jonathan Tidor PhD '22, graduate student Yuan Yao '21, Shengtong Zhang '22, and Yufei Zhao, "Equiangular Lines with a Fixed Angle," Annals of Mathematics, 2021.
• Zhiwei Yun for "Functions on the Commuting Stack via Langlands Duality" with Penghui Li and David Nadler, in Annals of Mathematics, 2024.
• Former faculty member Tristan Collins for two papers: "Moment maps, nonlinear PDE and stability in mirror symmetry" with Shing-Tung Yau in Annals of Partial Differential Equations, 2021, and "Sasaki-Einstein metrics and K-stability" with Gábor Székelyhidi in Geometry and Topology, 2019.

Congratulations to all the recipients!

The MIT Corporation Executive Committee has approved the following faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2025: Jeremy Hahn and Dor Minzer have been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure (from Assistant Professor).

Congratulations to Dor and Jeremy!