May 12 is International Women in Math Day, which commemorates the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal. WIM organizes a lunch to celebrate the achievements of all women in mathematics.
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Amanda Burcroff featured on MIT News
May 4, 2026
Our very own Amanda Burcroff discusses understanding algebraic and geometric spaces in science in an MIT News article. “Burcroff’s research is focused on algebraic combinatorics, an area that provides discrete frameworks for understanding algebraic and geometric spaces that ubiquitously arise across science. This year, she joins MIT’s Department of Mathematics as a postdoc as part […]
Gigliola Staffilani Named 2027 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer
March 25, 2026
Warm congratulations to Gigliola Staffilani, who has been named as the 2027 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer. The Noether Lecture will be delivered at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2027. The Emmy Noether Lectures were launched by the AWM in 1980 to “honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences”. Read […]
WIM hosts lunch social
February 27, 2026
To kick off the new semester, friends old and new in the WIM community gathered for a lunch social.
The Language of Belonging
September 11, 2025
Faith Baca ’25 finds her passion in linguistics and AI By Mark Sullivan Faith Baca ’25, double-majoring in linguistics and mathematics with computer science, aims to put AI to work for people who are marginalized in society. “AI is a powerful tool that has left underserved communities without representation, and I want to change this,” […]
Alum creates Cambridge Math Circle to share the joy of math
August 19, 2025
By Sandi Miller Members of the MIT Math community have been working directly with kids to share the joy of math discovery at the local nonprofit Cambridge Math Circle (CMC). This summer, Isabel McGuigan ’25 and graduate student Hamilton Wan led students through investigations of Boolean logic, logic gates, and Euler’s formula, among other topics, […]