Congratulations to Assistant Professor of mathematics Lisa Sauermann and six others at MIT receiving 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. Lisa’s main research interests are extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and her research also connects to probability theory, number theory, and theoretical computer science. With a collaborator, she proved an inverse theorem for the quadratic Littlewood-Offord problem. A favorite […]

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. Alexandra participated in the MIT Summer Program in Undergraduate Research and spent two summers at the University […]

Mathematics graduate student Marisa Gaetz ’20 received  the 2022 George Lusztig Mentorship for exceptional mentor service. Marisa is a PRIMES Circle coordinator and DPR mentor. Her studies center around representation theory and Lie theory. As an undergraduate at MIT, where she graduated in 2020, Marisa was a PRIMES Circle mentor for three years. As a grad student, she was a DRP mentor […]

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 […]

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 […]