The 2023 Jon A. Bucsela Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to senior math major Anqi Li for distinguished scholastic achievement, professional promise, and enthusiasm for mathematics. Congratulations Anqi!
Tianyuan (Margaret) Zheng Receives Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award
June 6, 2023
Math major Tianyuan (Margaret) Zheng ’23, who is also majoring in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (6-14) and minoring in Music (21M), was chosen for the 2023 Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award by the Arts at MIT Student Art Awards Committee. Zheng’s artistic involvement on campus is multi-faceted; she is best known for bringing to […]
Audrey Xie named 2023-24 Goldwater Scholar
May 30, 2023
MIT undergraduate Audrey Xie has been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year. Audrey is a third-year undergrad majoring in mathematics and computer science. Her research focuses on using gradient-based optimizers to train neural networks. Xie plans to pursue a PhD in computer science and hopes to one day conduct research […]
PRIMES Student is 2023 Regeneron STS finalist
March 22, 2023
Congratulations to PRIMES student Fenghuan (Linda) He of Commonwealth School in Boston, who is a 2023 Regeneron STS finalist for her paper “The Impact of Primordial Black Holes on Exoplanet Systems,” which she wrote with her mentor Prof. James Unwin, University of Illinois at Chicago. PRIMES currently has 97 students, with 34 students in PRIMES Math […]
Binwei Yan continues MIT’s Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winning streak
March 3, 2023
Junior Binwei Yan, a double major in Math and EECS, received the 2022 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize as the top-scoring woman on the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Binwei Yan, who finished in the top 16, receives a $1,000 award. She is the sixth MIT student to receive this honor since the award began […]
Female mathematicians awarded at JMM 2023
January 10, 2023
Several members of the Department of Mathematics community were recognized for their achievements at the recent Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. CLE Moore instructor Jia Shi received the Association for Women in Mathematics’ Dissertation Prize for her thesis that “proves major results on two separate topics in fluid mechanics, a hard classical field.” The association also awarded its […]