WIM News

MIT Math Welcomes Harvard’s Melanie Matchett Wood for International Women in Math Celebration

The MIT Math community celebrated International Women in Math Day on May 12 with guest speaker Melanie Matchett Wood from Harvard University. “It was a wonderful event that brought our diverse community together,” says Professor Ju-Lee Kim, who helped run the event. “Going forward, I hope this annual event will be an opportunity to celebrate diversity […]

Jessica Wan Wins 2024 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize

Jessica Wan

First-year Jessica Wan was the top-scoring woman in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. She finishing in the top 25, which earned her the $1,000 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. “I’m very honored to be receiving this prize and excited to continue studying math at MIT alongside so many other Elizabeth Lowell Putnam awardees!” says Jessica. She […]

WIM hosts dinner social

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Women in Math members at a recent dinner social.

Yiming Chen ’24 named Rhodes Scholar

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Yiming Chen, from Beijing, China, and the Washington area, was named one of four Rhodes China Scholars on Sept 28. At Oxford, she will pursue graduate studies in engineering science, working toward her ongoing goal of advancing AI safety and reliability in clinical workflows. Chen graduated from MIT in 2024 with a BS in mathematics […]

Applying the beauty and rigor of math to social sciences

By Pamela Ferdinand Growing up in Serbia, Nataša Dragović ’14 had no interest in politics. She also had no plans to become a mathematician like her parents. Yet today she’s an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where her work applies probability to social science problems such as how […]

Women in Math Dinner 2024

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While we all miss the annual dinner usually held at the home of WIM director Gigliola Staffilani, who is on sabbatical, everyone enjoyed great conversations, a sumptuous dinner, and fun beverages Oct. 23 at the Wiener Common Room.