As a graduate student at UT Austin, Lisa Piccirillo quickly came up with a solution to the Conway knot problem — which helped her land her tenure-track position at MIT. She joins our department as assistant professor this July. Read more in Quanta. Piccirillo’s proof appeared in Annals of Mathematics in February.
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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 […]
Bonnie Berger to give SIAM lecture
December 5, 2019
Bonnie Berger has been selected to give the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting in 2020! The Prize is awarded to highlight the achievements of women in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Earlier recipients can be found here.Congratulations, Bonnie!
Girls Are Just as Good as Boys at Doing Math
November 19, 2019
November 19, 2019 A new study found that boys and girls tend to start life with similar math abilities. Starting off, boys and girls tend to process math in similar ways. The researchers suggest that negative stereotypes and other socio-cultural factors may also be steering girls and young women away from math and related fields. […]