A day in the life of Michelle Xu, a senior majoring in physics and mathematics, with an added focus on philosophy, might include attending a quantum gravity seminar over Zoom, followed by some reading on the philosophy of time, capped off by a couple hours of writing fiction. Read more at the MIT News.
Bonnie Berger Is Elected Member of National Academy of Sciences
May 27, 2020
Bonnie Berger has 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. Congratulations Bonnie!
MIT junior Rona Wang lands six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster
April 27, 2020
As a high school student in Oregon, Rona Wang was invited to math competitions at MIT. She was so talented that after graduation, she ended up attending the renowned university to study math and computer science. And all the while, she cultivated another passion as well: writing. Turns out, she’s pretty good at that, too. […]
Nike Sun Awarded Doeblin Prize
April 27, 2020
Nike Sun has been awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, awarded bi-annually by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The prize is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning of their mathematical career. Congratulations Nike!
Dain Kim and Qi Qi Honored for Putnam Scores
March 4, 2020
The Department of Mathematics will honor first-year Dain Kim and junior Qi Qi at a spring awards dinner celebrating the high-scoring participants of December’s William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Qi was one of three recipients for the 2019 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, given to top female contestants. She is the fourth MIT student to receive […]
Nike Sun Receives NSF CAREER Award
November 8, 2019
Associate Professor Nike Sun has been honored with an award through the Faculty Early Career Development Program for her project “Phase Transitions in Randomized Combinatorial Search and Optimization Problems.” This is a continuing grant from June 2019 to August 2023. Her project centers on constraint satisfaction problems (CSPS) — archetypal examples of combinatorial search/ optimization […]