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University of Michigan Professor Bhargav Bhatt will give three lectures April 27-29, 2022, on p-adic Hodge Theory and Applications:

• April 27: What is p-adic Hodge theory?
• April 28: Applications to algebraic geometry
• April 29: Connections to algebraic topology

The lectures are 4:30-5:30 p.m. in 2-190, each preceded by a 4 p.m. reception in 2-290.

The Department of Mathematics annually hosts the Simons Lecture Series featuring presentations by top mathematicians. This is the first Simons Lecture Series since it was paused during 2020's pandemic shutdown.

Our next Simons Lecturer, Harvard Professor Cynthia Dwork , is scheduled for September 19, 20, and 22, 2022.

Many thanks to Jim and Marilyn Simons for their financial support of these lectures.

On March 20, 2022, PRIMES launched a new program in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yulia's Dream is a free math enrichment and research program for talented high school students (grades 9-11) from Ukraine.

For more information, see the Yulia's Dream Page , and NPR interview with Professor Pavel Etingof .

Yulia's Dream is dedicated to the memory of Yulia Zdanovskaya, a 21-year-old Ukrainian math student and a silver medalist at the 2017 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad who was killed by a Russian-fired missile in her home city of Kharkiv. We hope to help other Ukrainian boys and girls fulfill her dream.

Read more in the MIT News.

For the second time in Putnam history, all five of the top scorers, designated as Putnam Fellows in the 82nd William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition , came from a single school — MIT. Putnam Fellows, in alphabetical order, are seniors Andrew Gu and Michael Ren, sophomore Edward Wan, senior Shengtong Zhang, and junior Daniel G. Zhu.

The 2021 Putnam team, listed in alphabetical order, are Wan, Zhang, and Zhu. This is the MIT team's sixth first-place win in the past eight competitions. Zhang was also a Putnam Fellow in 2018 and 2019, and Zhu was also a 2019 Putnam Fellow.

Junior Dain Kim, who finished in the top 15, received the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. She was also recognized by our department as a top female scorer in the 2019 contest.

MIT also took 9 of the next 10 spots, 9 of the next 12, and 40 of the 78 honorable mentions. Among the top 105 test-takers overall, 63 were MIT students.

Read more in the MIT News.

A full list of the winners can be found on the Putnam website .

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's exam!

Ziquan Zhuang has been awarded a 2022 Clay Research Fellowship , for a term of two years.

Ziquan, an algebraic geometer, is one of three selected for their research achievements and their potential to become leaders in mathematics.

Congratulations Ziquan!

Lisa Sauermann , who recently joined our faculty in 2021, was awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship . She is among seven new MIT Sloan Fellows this year.

Altogether, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation selected 118 U.S. and Canadian early-career scholars for the two-year, $75,000 fellowship to further their research program.

Sloan Fellowships were also awarded to 19 other mathematicians, including Jonathan Niles-Weed PhD ’19 under the supervision of Philippe Rigollet , and now of New York University; former CLE Moore Instructor Charlotte Chan, currently at the University of Michigan; and former instructor and PRIMES mentor Asaf Ferber, now at University of California, Irvine.

Read more about her award in the MIT News.

Congratulations everyone!

George Lusztig , the Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for groundbreaking contributions to representation theory and related areas."

George is the Department's second Wolf Prize in Mathematics Laureate. Emeritus Professor Michael Artin received the Wolf Prize in 2013.

Read more about his award in MIT News.

Congratulations George!

The Edmund F. Kelly Research Award has been awarded to Assistant Professors Lisa Sauermann and Yufei Zhao .

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 Lisa and Yufei!

MIT Math senior David Darrow received a prestigious 2022 Churchill Scholarship to pursue an MPhil in scientific computing at Cambridge University. This scholarship is awarded to individuals with exceptional academic talent and outstanding achievement.

David has researched internal diffusion-limited aggregation with David Jerison , symplectic topology with Daniel Alvarez-Gavela , and protein folding with doctoral student George Stepaniants . He also is a mentor with MIT PRIMES and the MIT Undergraduate Mathematics Association .

Read more about the Churchill awards in MIT News .
There’s also a great profile of David in this MIT News article .

Congratulations David!

Four graduate students received the 2022 named PRIMES mentorships for exceptional mentor service.

Three received the 2022 George Lusztig Mentorships. Marisa Gaetz ’20 is a PRIMES Circle coordinator and DPR mentor. Yibo Gao ’17 has served as a PRIMES , SPUR+ , UROP+ , DRP , and RSI mentor. One of his PRIMES students won 4th place in the 2020 Regeneron STS, and three others were 2020 Yau Science Award USA semifinalists. Arun Kannan has served as a PRIMES and DRP mentor. One of Kannan's PRIMES students, Honglin Zhu, was selected as a 2021 Regeneron STS Scholar for his paper, jointly written with Kannan, that appeared in the Journal of Algebra .

The Bershadsky Mentor Award , courtesy of Michael and Victoria Bershadsky, goes to YounHun Kim , who has served as a PRIME, MathROOTS , RSI, and DRP mentor. One of his PRIMES students was a Regeneron STS finalist, and his RSI student was a semifinalist.

Congratulations Arun, Marisa, Yibo, and YounHun, and thank you Professor Lusztig and Michael & Victoria Bershadsky for making these mentorships possible!

Michel Goemans and David Williamson PhD ’93 will receive the American Mathematical Society’s 2022 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their paper, "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Cut and Satisfiability Problems Using Semidefinite Programming." This paper, which introduced a novel way to approximate hard combinatorial problems, "has had major, sustained impact on the fields of theoretical computer science and optimization theory," according to the AMS.

They will be recognized for their achievement at the upcoming Joint Mathematics Meetings .

Congratulations Michel and David!

Richard Stanley will receive the American Mathematical Society’s 2022 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, at the upcoming Joint Mathematics Meetings.

He was cited for revolutionizing enumerative combinatorics, "revealing deep connections with other branches of mathematics, such as commutative algebra, topology, algebraic geometry, probability, convex geometry, and representation theory."

This is Richard's second Steele Prize. In 2001, he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, for his two-volume work, Enumerative Combinatorics .

Congratulations Richard!

Travis Dillon will receive the 2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. A graduate of Lawrence University, he is recognized for his work in number theory, combinatorics, discrete geometry, and symbolic dynamics.

In addition, Alex Cohen will receive the 2022 Frank and Brennie Morgan Honorable Mention Prize for his undergraduate work at Yale, where he solved a number of long-standing open problems in areas from combinatorics to analysis and partial differential equations.

They will both be awarded at January’s Joint Math Meeting Seattle.

Read more in the MIT News .

Congratulations Travis and Alex!

Lisa Sauermann , who recently joined our department as assistant professor, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2021 European Prize in Combinatorics , which was awarded at Eurocomb in September. The prize is for research in combinatorics and is awarded every two years.

She was cited for her "profound contribution to combinatorics, particularly for results on the growth rate of algebraically defined classes, for the solution of an old Erdös, Faudree, Rousseau, and Schelp and for the solution of edge-statistics conjecture."

Congratulations Lisa!

Semyon Dyatlov will receive the inaugural 2022 Mikhail Gordin Prize at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle.

The Mikhail Gordin prize, offered jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the European Mathematical Society (EMS), is awarded to a mathematician working in probability or dynamical systems, with preference given to early career mathematicians from or professionally connected to an Eastern European country.

Semyon is recognized for his work on quantum chaos, scattering theory and, in particular, differentiable dynamical systems.

Congratulations Semyon!

The Association for Women in Mathematics announced that Letong "Carina" Hong , a math and physics double major, won the 2022 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. In addition, Mathematics major Alexandra Hoey was awarded honorable mention.

Carina participated in REUs at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the University of Virginia that led to a number of papers, including three accepted for publication. She also participated in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and the IAS Women and Mathematics program. Carina was recently selected for a Rhodes Scholarship . Carina also serves as President of MIT's Undergraduate Mathematics Association (UMA).

Alexandra participated in the MIT Summer Program in Undergraduate Research and spent two summers at the University of Virginia REU, focusing on arithmetic statistics. Her work has led to two papers – one of which will appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. She has also served as a PRIMES Circle mentor.

The Schafer Prize Winners will be presented at the January 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle.

Congratulations Carina and Alexandra!

Peter Shor was among 45 mathematical scientists selected for the 2022 Class of American Mathematical Society Fellows .

He was recognized for “contributions to quantum computing, in particular quantum algorithms and quantum information theory.”

The AMS Fellows program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

Congratulations Peter!

PRIMES student Sean Li won the $10,000 Davidson Fellowship for his project "On Group-Theoretic Extensions of Penney's Game," mentored by Tanya Khovanova, who he says "provided high-level insight and gave myriads of advice on exposition." Sean is attending MIT as a prospective math major.

Honorable mentions went to PRIMES students Espen Slettnes and Kenta Suzuki (now an MIT student). RSI student Andrei Mandelstam also received an honorable mention. Of the six math projects receiving Davidson honors this year, four were completed in our PRIMES or RSI programs.

Congratulations and thanks to Pavel Etingof , Slava Gerovitch , David Jerison , Tanya Khovanova , and Ankur Moitra for running PRIMES and RSI, and to the PRIMES/RSI mentors: our PhDs Jesse Geneson and Daniil Kalinov, and Prof. Michael Zieve of the University of Michigan!

CLE Moore Instructor Yilin Wang and Hong Wang PhD ’19, a UCLA assistant professor of mathematics, are recipients of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, awarded to outstanding early-career women in mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation .

Yilin is cited "for innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves" according to the award citation, and Hong "for advances on the restriction conjecture, the local smoothing conjecture, and related problems."

"Once again, it is uplifting to see women in mathematics receiving a major prize for their outstanding research," says Department of Mathematics Head Michel Goemans , the RSA Professor of Mathematics. "We are proud of Yilin's achievements in probability and Hong’s contributions to Fourier analysis."

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations Yilin and Hong!

The International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, University of Montreal, recently announced that Tristan Collins is the recipient of the 2021 André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics .

This prize, awarded to a young outstanding Canadian mathematician, will also be given to Giulio Tiozzo, who is at the University of Toronto.

Tristan will virtually present "Exploring string vacua through geometric transitions" at a CRM colloquium on Nov. 19, 2021.

Congratulations Tristan!

SPUR/SPUR+ (Summer Program in Undergraduate Research) wrapped up this year’s program with two teams sharing the 2021 Hartley Rogers Jr. Family Prize for the best SPUR paper .

Students Dain Kim and Anqi Li’s paper "Cubic Goldreich-Levin," suggested by their mentor and SPUR ’16 and PRIMES ’13 alum Jonathan Tidor , “makes a substantial contribution to a challenging area of algorithms and combinatorics,” stated the judges.

Daishi Kiyohara’s project, "A new approach to the upper estimate of lattice points on a curve via ????2 decoupling," was suggested by Larry Guth and mentored by Feng Gui . “This project introduces exciting new techniques and ideas from Fourier decoupling theory to count lattice points on curves satisfying certain algebraic non-degeneracy conditions,” said the judges.

Twelve MIT undergraduates presented six individual and three joint research projects at the Aug. 6, 2021 online SPUR Conference to judges Tristan Collins , Davesh Maulik , and Michael Sipser .

This summer’s Aug. 5 RSI (Research Science Institute) Symposium also saw 11 outstanding high school students from the U.S., Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong, and Kazakhstan present online their math research projects, mentored by graduate students from our department.

The SPUR/SPUR+ and RSI math programs were run by faculty advisors David Jerison and Ankur Moitra , program director Slava Gerovitch , and RSI head mentor Tanya Khovanova .

Philippe Rigollet was named a fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics . He was recognized for "outstanding contributions to the analysis of statistical versus computational trade-offs, to the theory of aggregation, and to statistical optimal transport."

Congratulations Philippe!

Ankur Moitra has been promoted to full professor, and now holds the Norbert Wiener Professorship in Mathematics. Norbert Wiener, the father of cynernetics, was on the faculty in the Department from 1926 until his retirement in 1960 as Institute Professor Emeritus.

Ankur has also started in his new role as Director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC) .

Congratulations Ankur!

Mathematics alumnus Allen Liu ’20, now a first-year graduate student at EECS, was among 12 doctoral candidates to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship .

Allen is developing algorithms with provable guarantees for a variety of fundamental learning problems in preference learning, robust statistics, and other areas. Under Ankur Moitra , Liu developed an efficient algorithm that provably learns the parameters of a mixture of Gaussians from samples, even amid adversarial noise.

Congratulations Allen!

Michel Goemans received the George B. Dantzig Prize , recognizing Michel’s "outstanding contributions to the field of combinatorial optimization; most notably, the initiation of new research directions, introduction of novel and deep techniques, and ingenious use of sampling, rounding, and geometric ideas to significantly advance several fields, including the pioneering use of semi-definite programming for the design of approximation algorithms."

The George B. Dantzig Prize is awarded every three years by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Michel was also named RSA Professor of Mathematics. The RSA public key encryption technology was invented at MIT by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, who were on the faculty in Mathematics (for Len and Adi) and in EECS (for Ron).

Congratulations Michel!

Sophomore Ryan Conti and juniors Swapnil Garg and Jeffery Yu are among 38 MIT students named 2021 Burchard Scholars by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). The Burchard Scholars program recognizes sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated outstanding abilities and academic excellence in the humanities, arts, and social sciences as well as in STEM fields.

Read more in the MIT News .

Congratulations Ryan, Swapnil, and Jeffery!

Kevin Costello ’21 received the Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award, for outstanding achievement in and contributions to the arts at MIT.

Marisa Gaetz ’G received the Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service, which recognizes exceptional dedication to community engagement and making positive social and environmental changes at MIT and beyond.

Letong "Carina" Hong ’23 received the Emerging Leader Award in recognition of significant contributions to the community and demonstrated potential for leadership and continuing service.

Miles Johnson ’21 received the Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, established in Dr. McNair’s honor by the Black Alumni/ae of MIT, to recognize a Black undergraduate who has demonstrated strong academic performance and who has made a considerable contribution to the minority community.

Anjali Nambrath ’21 received the Laya W. Wiesner Award as an undergraduate woman student who has most enhanced MIT community life.

Complete list of 2021 Awards Convocation honorees

Congratulations Kevin, Marisa, Miles, Carina, and Anjali!

Undergraduates Talia Blum , Katie Gravel , and Letong "Carina" Hong , and graduate students Peter Haine and Chengzhao "Richard" Zhang received Community Building Awards "for individuals who have made significant contributions to building and strengthening our MIT Mathematics community."

Honorable mention goes to Andrea Arias , Jack-William Barotta , Kevin Chang , Brin Harper , Xzavier Herbert , Andrew Lin , Rachana Madhukara , Nelson Niu , Ana Reyes Sanchez , Boya Song , and Rona Wang .

Congratulations Talia, Katie, Carina, Peter, and Richard!

Seniors Jack-William Barotta , Andrew Lin , and Nelson Niu , and CLE Moore Instructors Junho Whang and Pei-Ken Hung , were recognized by the Department with Teaching and Learning Awards. This is presented in recognition of contributions to teaching.

Also recognized for their outstanding contributions to teaching were Josh Amaniampong , Yongyi Chen , Murilo Curato Zanarella , Felix Gotti , Katie Gravel , Brin Harper , Xzavier Herbert , Sujay Kazi , Daniel Kriz , Jeffery Li , Rene Reyes , Nika Silkin , Shengtong Zhang , and the “Proofs-IAP Workshop” team .

Graduate student Ruoxuan Yang has been awarded the 2021 Graduate Appreciation Fellowship. This is presented to graduate women entering their final year, in recognition of contributions to teaching and departmental service.

Congratulations Ruoxuan!

Graduate student Andrei Ionov has been awarded the 2021 Charles and Holly Housman Award for excellence in teaching. This award is presented to graduate students in mathematics for skill and dedication in undergraduate teaching.

Congratulations Andrei!

The 2021 Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Prize for a research paper accepted for publication in a major journal, went to Jonathan Tidor , a fourth-year doctoral candidate. His paper, "Testing linear-invariant properties" (jointly with Professor Yufei Zhao ), has been published in Foundations of Computer Science .

Congratulations Jonathan!

Seniors Qiuyu Ren and Junyao Peng each received the 2021 Jon A. Bucsela Prize in Mathematics for distinguished scholastic achievement, professional promise, and enthusiasm for mathematics.

Congratulations Qiuyu and Junyao!

Math seniors Korina Digalaki and Vanshika Jain won Honorable Mentions for the 2021 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Congratulations Korina and Vanshika!

Congratulations to our 26 doctoral candidates receiving their PhDs this year!

The Xi Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has elected 58 mathematics majors, among 148 electees from MIT’s Class of 2021, to become members. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society with a very selective invitation process. Membership is awarded to students in recognition of excellent academic records and commitment to the objectives of a liberal education.

Full list of Mathematics Inductees

Congratulations to our newest members of Phi Beta Kappa!

Professors John Bush and Martin Bazant’s paper “Beyond Six Feet: A Guideline to Limit Indoor Airborne Transmission of COVID-19” was published in PNAS .

By considering the fluid mechanics of indoor spaces, they developed a new safety guideline for limiting airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors. Their mathematical model yields a time limit for a given indoor space that depends on the ventilation rate, mask use and number of occupants. Their study underscores the inadequacy of the 6-Foot Rule in protecting against airborne transmission.

Their work has prompted the development of an app that calculates safe exposure times and occupancy levels for indoor spaces , and Martin’s MOOC on the physics of Covid-19 transmission .

Read more in the MIT News , on John’s web page , and Martin’s web page .

Lecturer Jerry Orloff PhD ’85 received the 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award for enhancing on-campus and remote teaching. The awards are student-nominated and co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor .

Jerry teaches 18.05 , is a lecturer at Experimental Study Group for versions of 18.01A, 02A and 03, and serves on our Education Committee. Professor Haynes Miller also commented on his "invaluable contributions to the MIT Mathlet project ."

Congratulations Jerry!

Professor Haynes Miller has been awarded the 2021 Alan J. Lazarus (1953) Excellence in Advising by the Office of the First Year . The award is "presented to a faculty member who has served as an excellent advisor and mentor to first-year students and who has had a significant impact on their personal lives and academic success."

The presentation will be at a virtual ceremony for award recipients (advisors, first-years and associate advisors) on May 13.

Congratulations Haynes!

Professor Scott Sheffield has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . As described by AAAS, "The election of new Academy members in 2021 provides an opportunity to recognize extraordinary people who help solve the world’s most urgent challenges, create meaning through art, and contribute to the common good from every field, discipline, and profession."

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations Scott!

Professor emeritus Daniel Freedman and Professors Larry Guth and Gigliola Staffilani have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is one of the highest honors that a scientist can achieve. They join 15 other NAS members in our department.

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations Dan, Larry, and Gigliola!

Math majors Fiona Chen ’21 and Ashwin Sah ’20 are among this year’s recipients of the 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans , in support of graduate study. Fiona will use her fellowship to pursue a PhD in economics at Harvard, and Ashwin to continue his graduate studies in mathematics here at MIT.

Read more at the MIT News.

Congratulations Fiona and Ashwin!

Congratulations Yufei!

A record number of PRIMES students — 17! — were awarded in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition .

Yunseo Choi, who is also an RSI alum, took first place ($250,000), and Gopal Goel earned 4th place ($100,000). Three PRIMES alums, along with another RSI student, were finalists, and 12 PRIMES students received national scholar awards.

Congratulations to our PRIMES and RSI students, and thanks to faculty advisors Pavel Etingof , David Jerison , and Ankur Moitra , program director Slava Gerovitch , head mentor Tanya Khovanova , and the mentors for inspiring our students to succeed!

Congratulations to Larry Guth , who receives MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching, the Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship .

The 10-year fellowship is awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office to recognize faculty, who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to the teaching and education of undergraduates at MIT.

Past Department MacVicar Fellows include David Jerison , Haynes Miller , Arthur Mattuck , and Michael Sipser .

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations Larry!

Professor George Lusztig was awarded a 2021 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. Outstanding mathematicians recognized by the Simons Fellows program are able to extend sabbatical leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances.

Congratulations George!

Dor Minzer and Lisa Piccirillo have been awarded 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships . Dor and Lisa, who recently joined our department as assistant professors, are among eight MIT researchers awarded.

The Sloan Foundation awarded these fellowships to 128 U.S. and Canadian researchers, who will each receive $75,000 to be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.

Congratulations Dor and Lisa!

The 2021 MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award recognizes the PRIMES program and Marisa Gaetz '20, now a doctoral candidate, at the 47th Annual MLK Jr. Celebration on February 10, 2021.

PRIMES is recognized "for deep and coordinated commitment to improving diversity in mathematics."

Marisa is recognized for her efforts to improve diversity and inclusivity within the math community, including as a PRIMES Circle mentor , and for her work with The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at MIT.

Congratulations to Marisa and to PRIMES leaders Pavel Etingof , Slava Gerovitch , and Tanya Khovanova !

Lisa Piccirillo and postdocs Maggie Miller and Alex Smith have been awarded 2021 Clay Research Fellowships .

Lisa, who recently joined our department as assistant professor, was recognized for her work in low-dimensional topology, and in particular her surprising resolution of the 50-year-old Conway Knot problem .

Maggie, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has also made important contributions to long standing problems in low-dimensional topology. Smith, also an NSF postdoc, has made deep contributions to the theory of elliptic curves and class groups. Both will be moving on to Stanford this summer.

These fellowships, which begin on July 1, 2021, go to recent PhDs who are potential leaders in research mathematics.

Congratulations Lisa, Maggie and Alex!

Alan Edelman PhD ’89 was among three MIT faculty named Association for Computer Machinery 2020 Fellows . He was cited “for contributions to algorithms and languages for numerical and scientific computing.”

Alan does research on high-performance computing, numerical computation, linear algebra, random matrix theory, and scientific machine learning. He leads the MIT Julia Lab and is chief scientist at Julia Computing . He is also a fellow of SIAM, AMS, and IEEE.

Read more in the MIT News.

Congratulations Alan!

Four graduate students received the 2021 named PRIMES mentorships for exceptional mentor service.

Three received the 2021 George Lusztig Mentorships. Peter Haine is a DRP and MathROOTS mentor, and a PRIMES Circle program coordinator since 2018. Chun Hong Lo , who is a PRIMES, RSI, UROP+ and SPUR mentor, saw three PRIMES mentees become 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalists. Adela (YiYu) Zhang is a PRIMES, RSI, UROP+, MathROOTS, and PRIMES Circle mentor.

The new Bershadsky Mentor Award, courtesy of Michael and Victoria Bershadsky, goes to Andrey Khesin , a PRIMES mentor and MathROOTS program director.

Congratulations Peter, Chun, Adela, and Andrey, and thank you Professor Lusztig, and Michael and Victoria Bershadsky for making these mentorships possible!